The Catholic Review Last November, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops overwhelmingly approved the document, “Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship: A Call to Political Responsibility from the Catholic Bishops of the United States.” The lengthy title speaks for itself and its 90 paragraphs sought out some elementary and clarifying principles that should be helpful...Read More

The Catholic Review This wasn’t the column I had planned – I changed my mind on Sunday, and I hope it doesn’t get me run out of town. I resisted several invitations to see the Yankees play the Orioles this past Sunday in the final game at the “House that Ruth Built” – obligations here,...Read More

The Catholic Review Last week’s column waded into the controversial territory of contraception, the Church’s firm, steady and—I would claim—infallible teaching on the openness to every marital act to both the unitive and procreative meaning that God wills for marital love. The occasion was the recent 40th anniversary of Pope Paul VI’s landmark encyclical, Humanae...Read More

  Mr. Chairman and members of the Commission, I am Edwin O’Brien, since last October, the Archbishop of Baltimore.  The Archdiocese of Baltimore runs east from the Appalachians across 9 counties and the City of Baltimore to the Chesapeake Bay. It numbers more than a half million Roman Catholics in more than 150 parishes. Its...Read More