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Fr. Raymond J. de Souza: The Year in a Day – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Fr. Raymond J. de Souza: The Year in a Day

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By Fr. Raymond J. de Souza, The Catholic Thing, December 28, 2024

It was one year in a single day. On 11^th May, the year 2024 unfolded for American Catholics. In the space of a few hours, two commencement addresses were delivered: Jonathan Roumie at The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, and Harrison Butker at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas.

Much of what marked Catholic life in America – ecclesially, culturally, politically – in 2024 can be heard in the different approaches offered by the two speakers on that day.

If there had been a Time magazine Catholic of the Year for being newsworthy, it might well have been Butker, who is adjacent to the celebrity world of Taylor Swift (who actually was Time’s Person of the Year 2023, her second time, though in 2017 she was part of a group).

The Butker speech got more attention than Roumie’s by several orders of magnitude. That itself was a telling sign of who shaped the national conversation in 2024. ..

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