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1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | ||||||
3 | Representatives are pleased to congratulate Reverend Monsignor | ||||||
4 | John Pollard on the 40th anniversary of his ordination; and
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5 | WHEREAS, Rev. Msgr. Pollard was ordained a priest for the | ||||||
6 | Archdiocese on May 8, 1974; and
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7 | WHEREAS, Rev. Msgr. Pollard served as associate pastor of | ||||||
8 | St. Albert the Great Parish from 1974-80 and of St. Julian | ||||||
9 | Eymard Parish from 1980-85; in 1982, the President of DePaul | ||||||
10 | University appointed him the executive director of the | ||||||
11 | university's Center for Church/State Studies; 5 years later he | ||||||
12 | was given the John Courtney Murray Award for distinguished | ||||||
13 | contributions to the field of religion and government; and
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14 | WHEREAS, In 1985, Rev. Msgr. Pollard was appointed to the | ||||||
15 | staff of the Office for Catechesis in the Archdiocese of | ||||||
16 | Chicago, and, 2 years later, he was appointed to be director of | ||||||
17 | the office; in 1988, he was appointed to serve on the Bishops' | ||||||
18 | Committee on Doctrinally Sound Catechetical Materials, and, in | ||||||
19 | 1989, he served as co-chairman of the National Catholic | ||||||
20 | Educational Association's Convention, Exposition, and | ||||||
21 | Religious Education Congress; 5 years later, after the | ||||||
22 | conclusion of his service as director of catechesis, he |
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1 | received the Archdiocese of Chicago Award for Extraordinary | ||||||
2 | Leadership and Service; and
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3 | WHEREAS, Rev. Msgr. Pollard was appointed to the staff of | ||||||
4 | the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington, | ||||||
5 | D.C. in 1992, where he served as assistant coordinator for Pope | ||||||
6 | John Paul II's visit to the United States in 1993, and, that | ||||||
7 | same year, was director of catechesis for World Youth Day; in | ||||||
8 | 1994, he was appointed by Pope John Paul II to be a permanent | ||||||
9 | member of the International Council on Catechesis, and, in | ||||||
10 | 1995, he was appointed to be the founding director of the | ||||||
11 | United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' Office for the | ||||||
12 | Catechism; that same year he again served as assistant | ||||||
13 | coordinator for the Pope's visit to the U.S.; and | ||||||
14 | WHEREAS, After 7 years of service to the U.S. Conference of | ||||||
15 | Catholic Bishops, Rev. Msgr. Pollard was appointed director of | ||||||
16 | thew newly-created Department of Education, and, in 1998, he | ||||||
17 | also served as a consultant to the Bishops' Committee on the | ||||||
18 | Catechism; in 2000, he was appointed to serve as a member of | ||||||
19 | the Bishops' Committee on Education; later that same year, he | ||||||
20 | was appointed director of the newly-created Department of | ||||||
21 | Evangelization and Catechesis; in 2001, he returned to | ||||||
22 | Washington, D.C. to work with the Episcopal Oversight Board on | ||||||
23 | the development of the new National Directory for Catechesis, | ||||||
24 | and, in 2003, he served as a consultant to the Committee on |
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1 | Catechesis; and | ||||||
2 | WHEREAS, Rev. Msgr. Pollard has received several | ||||||
3 | distinguished honors over the years; in 1996, he was cited for | ||||||
4 | his leadership
in adult catechesis by the National Advisory | ||||||
5 | Committee for Adult Religious Education; in 1997, Francis | ||||||
6 | Cardinal George
conferred the Archdiocese of Chicago Medallion | ||||||
7 | for Excellence in Catechesis on him; Today's
Catholic Teacher | ||||||
8 | named him one of the 25 most influential leaders in Catholic | ||||||
9 | education over the past quarter
century; he received the F. | ||||||
10 | Sadlier Dinger Award for Leadership in Catechetics from William | ||||||
11 | H. Sadlier,
Inc. citing his leadership, and the Our Sunday | ||||||
12 | Visitor Foundation awarded a $500,000 grant to the Office for
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13 | the Catechism during his tenure as its director; and | ||||||
14 | WHEREAS, Rev. Msgr. Pollard has been a catechist and
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15 | teacher for pre-schoolers, children with disabilities, high | ||||||
16 | school, college and graduate students, teachers, catechists,
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17 | and principals and priests; he has taught at the University of | ||||||
18 | Illinois, St. Xavier University, and DePaul University, and has | ||||||
19 | been
a adjunct professor of catechetics at Mundelein Seminary; | ||||||
20 | in addition, he has served as religious education consultant | ||||||
21 | for
the National Catholic Educational Association and as | ||||||
22 | theological consultant for several publishers of catechetical | ||||||
23 | texts
and materials; he has frequently delivered papers and | ||||||
24 | presented workshops at the meetings and conventions of the
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1 | National Catholic Educational Association and the National | ||||||
2 | Conference of Catechetical Leadership and has given
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3 | presentations, directed seminars, and led workshops on the | ||||||
4 | Catechism for bishops' staffs, diocesan
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5 | educational/catechetical leaders, priests and parish | ||||||
6 | leadership in over 100 dioceses in the United States; he
has | ||||||
7 | spoken to audiences at the Vatican, in Spain, Italy, Canada, | ||||||
8 | the Republic of Ireland, Great Britain, Guam, and several
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9 | island nations in the Caribbean; and | ||||||
10 | WHEREAS, Rev. Msgr. Pollard wrote "Exploring the Catholic | ||||||
11 | Faith", an annotated edition of Joseph Cardinal
Bernardin's | ||||||
12 | "Growing in Wisdom, Age and Grace"; his numerous articles have | ||||||
13 | appeared in books and
journals such as the Catholic | ||||||
14 | Encyclopedia, the Thomist, the Living Light, the Journal of | ||||||
15 | Religion and Law, Chicago
Studies, the Josephinum Journal of | ||||||
16 | Theology, the DePaul Law Review, Momentum, Catechetical | ||||||
17 | Sunday, Proceedings of
the International Eucharistic Congress, | ||||||
18 | and Proceedings of the Pontifical Council for the Laity; he | ||||||
19 | wrote the general
introductory essay for Liturgy Training | ||||||
20 | Publications' The Catechetical Documents; his latest work, | ||||||
21 | "Know, Live and Love
the Catholic Faith" was published by Our | ||||||
22 | Sunday Visitor Press in November of 2005; and | ||||||
23 | WHEREAS, Rev. Msgr. Pollard has served as a member of the | ||||||
24 | U.S. Bishops' Committee on Education and as a consultant for 2
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1 | Bishops' Committees: the Committee on Catechesis and the | ||||||
2 | Committee on the Catechism; he also served on the Boards
of | ||||||
3 | Directors of the National Catholic Catechists' Society, the | ||||||
4 | National Conference of Christians and Jews, and De Paul
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5 | University's Center for Church/State Studies; he has been the | ||||||
6 | chaplain of the Irish Fellowship Club of Chicago for over
20 | ||||||
7 | years; he has served on the Editorial Board of the Living | ||||||
8 | Light, the Board of Directors of the National Conference
of | ||||||
9 | Catechetical Leadership, and the Advisory Committee of | ||||||
10 | National Catholic Educational Association's National
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11 | Conference of Diocesan Directors of Religious Education; | ||||||
12 | Francis Cardinal George appointed him a member of the
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13 | Archdiocesan School Board in 2009; and | ||||||
14 | WHEREAS, Rev. Msgr. Pollard was appointed pastor of St. | ||||||
15 | Joseph Parish in Wilmette on March 15, 2003; 7 years later he | ||||||
16 | was appointed to be pastor of Queen of All Saints Basilica; | ||||||
17 | Pope Benedict XVI named him Chaplain of His Holiness with the | ||||||
18 | title Reverend Monsignor in September of 2010; and | ||||||
19 | WHEREAS, Rev. Msgr. Pollard holds a master's degree in | ||||||
20 | Supervision and Administration from Loyola University of | ||||||
21 | Chicago and a master's degree in Divinity and a Licentiate in | ||||||
22 | Sacred Theology from Mundelein Seminary; he is a doctoral | ||||||
23 | candidate in the Department of Theology at the Catholic | ||||||
24 | University of America in Washington, D.C.; therefore, be it
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1 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
2 | NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | ||||||
3 | we congratulate Reverend Monsignor John Pollard on the 40th | ||||||
4 | anniversary of his ordination; and be it further
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5 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
6 | presented to Rev. Msgr. Pollard as an expression of our esteem | ||||||
7 | and respect.
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