This moving video was shot in the White House on July 7, 2022, as Father Alexander Karloutsos, known and loved worldwide as “Father Alex,” received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Joe Biden, to whom Father Alex refers as “a great president, a great friend, and a great statesman.” Father Alex speaks candidly and from the heart about what it means to be an American, America as a nation of immigrants, and the community that arises from service.
