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By Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, Archbishop of San Francisco, National Catholic Register, December 11, 2025
Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is the archbishop of San Francisco and the founder and chairman of the board of the Benedict XVI Institute for Sacred Music and Divine Worship.
COMMENTARY: Through this revelation, Mary gave birth to a new people.
To survive and flourish, every great civilization needs to cherish the story of its origin.
It is good, then, that plans are taking shape to celebrate next year’s 250th anniversary of our nation’s founding document, the Declaration of Independence. But a country as great as America has more than one origin story to tell.
This Dec. 12, millions of Hispanics will celebrate the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe as part of their own origin story as Americans. The year 2031 will mark the 500th anniversary of her appearance, and to make more of us English-speaking Americans aware of the role of Our Lady of Guadalupe in our own history, I recently launched a new initiative, “Project Guadalupe 2031.” …
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