Full Text of HR1061 98th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 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
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Rev. Msgr. Pollard was ordained a priest for the | 6 | | Archdiocese on May 8, 1974; and
| 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
| 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
| 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
| 13 | | the Catechism during his tenure as its director; and | 14 | | WHEREAS, Rev. Msgr. Pollard has been a catechist and
| 15 | | teacher for pre-schoolers, children with disabilities, high | 16 | | school, college and graduate students, teachers, catechists,
| 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
| 3 | | presentations, directed seminars, and led workshops on the | 4 | | Catechism for bishops' staffs, diocesan
| 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
| 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
| 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
| 11 | | Conference of Diocesan Directors of Religious Education; | 12 | | Francis Cardinal George appointed him a member of the
| 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
| 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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