Jesuit Fr. Leo O'Donovan to deliver invocation at Biden inauguration

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National Catholic Reporter

Jesuit Fr. Leo O'Donovan, former president of Georgetown University, will deliver the invocation at Joe Biden's presidential inauguration on Jan. 20.

O'Donovan confirmed to NCR that Biden had personally called him and invited him to offer the prayer at the inauguration, which will mark the election of the nation's second Catholic president, and that he had accepted.

O'Donovan is a longtime friend of the Biden family. In 2015, he presided at the funeral Mass for Biden's oldest son, Beau, after he died of brain cancer at the age of 46.

Biden is known to be close with a number of Jesuit priests, and while he was vice president, he occasionally attended Mass at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Georgetown. In 1992, when Biden's son Hunter was a senior at Georgetown, O'Donovan invited the then-senator from Delaware to give a lecture at the Jesuit university on his faith and public life. Biden told O'Donovan at the time it was the "toughest assignment he's ever had."

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1. He finally got his Irishman! 🤣

Today he joked with Kamala after appointing a Jamaican woman as—Deputy AG?—that he was eventually going to get an Irishman. 😄

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2. This alum of a Jesuit college

(University of Scranton, no less) gives this a kick.

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3. I hope he wears a humble religious smock and rope belt at the inauguration.

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To remind the religious and americans of how ostentatiousness is a sin.

(Later: i was thinking of Franciscans. But humble dress of any kind would be good.)

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4. The Jesuits do dress simply. Not being Catholic, they also seem to be the most humane of the

Catholic Sects. Pope Francis is a Jesuit.

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5. Rope belts are Franciscans

Jesuits dress simply. Jesuits traditionally wear plain black pants and a black shirt with the collar or black cassocks (long black robe).

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6. Okay I am wrong.

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7. Both are excellent orders

A lot of my education was by Franciscans. They are a good order, like the Jesuits.

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8. I love those who walk the walk.