Renee Tsinnie/St. Michael’s Indian School; Courtesy the Knights of Peter Claver; Caitlin Rose Photography; Courtesy Catie Kopf; Photographer Kelsey Paff
Clockwise, a St. Michael’s Indian School student prepares to meet his teacher and start class virtually. The Knights of Peter Claver and Ladies Auxiliary, who are shown gathered at a prepandemic convention, responded to the pandemic with their ‘Claver COVID-19 Outreach,’ to aid those in need this past year. The ‘Divine Mercy Drive-In Holy Hour’ is underway at St. Ann’s Catholic Church in Clayton, North Carolina. Catie and Michael Kopf celebrate their wedding under COVID-19 lockdown in Jerusalem. Andrew Walther, president and COO of EWTN News, died Nov. 1 in New Haven, Connecticut. He died one day after Father Michael McGivney, founder of the Knights of Columbus, was beatified by the Church. Walther did much to help persecuted Christians in the Middle East.

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