The Catholic Review For the past month, our Archdiocese has joined other institutions and organizations committed to the safety and well-being of children in recognizing April as Child Abuse Prevention Month. While our child protection efforts are our focus throughout the year, it does present an opportunity to reflect on what our Church—primarily through the...Read More

Holy Thursday homily given at Cathedral of Mary Our Queen, Baltimore With this Mass we enter into the Sacred Triduum: Eucharist, Death, Resurrection. With this Mass we begin the Lord’s Passion, constituting the tragic and concluding moment – long prepared and awaited – of the earthly existence of the Word of God. With this Mass...Read More

The Catholic Review It is advice the Master Himself offers: Go out into the highways and byways and invite! This past year, thanks to the initiative of our indefatigable Vocations Director, Father Jerry Francik, what encouragement I have experienced to travel the highways of the Archdiocese to seven homes—all a good distance from headquarters here...Read More

The Catholic Review In this Christmas Eve edition of The Catholic Review—the last of the year—I offer these Christmas-related “Thoughts on our Church,” with sincere gratitude to you, good readers, for tending this weekly column and for your faithful witness and dedicated service to our Church. Holy Spirit, Indeed Perhaps no church in this Archdiocese...Read More