"As a young lad growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area town of Pittsburg, my school uniform consisted of corduroys the color of Ash Wednesday, a white dress shirt and a maroon V-neck sweater. I walked west from my family's apartment on 10th Street, turned left on Montezuma, and arrived about 15 minutes later at the campus of St. Peter Martyr."
"By the way, nice job recently on your presentation at the National Bible Museum, where you launched the "America Prays" initiative to celebrate spirituality and restore "our identity as one nation under God." And congratulations on your missionary work. I see that you raked in $1.3 million on your "God Bless the USA Bible." Love that you said: "To have a great nation, you have to have religion. I believe that so strongly. There has to be something after we go through all of this - and that something is God.""
Childhood years at St. Peter Martyr included corduroy uniforms, a white dress shirt and a maroon V-neck sweater, with a short walk from home to school. Teachers were nuns, parish priests were Dominicans, and Sunday mass was framed as a celebration of faith, humility and grace. Personal imperfection and institutional imperfection are openly acknowledged. Questions arise about contemporary political claims of piety when words and deeds do not always align. A direct address to President Trump references the National Bible Museum "America Prays" initiative, $1.3 million sales of a branded Bible, and a statement that religion is necessary for a great nation.
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