The Catholic Review My earliest days of priesthood found me assigned (very happily) to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. For almost five years, I served as civilian chaplain to the cadets, military families and support troops there. Most Holy Trinity Chapel and the adjoining rectory are beautifully located on a bluff overlooking a...Read More

  It would be a privilege on any Spring day to be invited to deliver the commencement address at this historic and prestigious university. How especially significant the honor to do so for Mt. St. Mary’s Bicentennial Class, and on Pentecost Sunday and Mother’s Day. I am grateful to President Thomas Powell and to the...Read More

The Catholic Review A sweatshirt was generously given to me some months ago by a well-meaning individual during one of my parish visits with a logo on the front that reads: The Cardinal Ratzinger Fan Club: Putting the Crackdown on Heresy since 1981 Now that the former Cardinal Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, has had...Read More

The Catholic Review Several years ago, when I was Archbishop for the Military Archdiocese, I experienced an unexpected but very memorable encounter during a long midnight layover in Anchorage on a pastoral visit to our bases in the Far East. The encounter was with a young man who could have been a poster boy for...Read More

The Catholic Review 200th Anniversary of the Elevation of Baltimore to an Archdiocese. It was barely six months ago that I took possession of this Premier See of our Nation. You might recall that I began the liturgical events of the occasion in this historic basilica with a prayerful visit to the crypt below to...Read More

  It was barely six months ago that I took possession of this Premier See of our Nation. You might recall that I began the liturgical events of the occasion in this historic basilica with a prayerful visit to the crypt below to kneel before the remains of our founding bishop, John Carroll, whose pectoral...Read More

The Catholic Review This week finds me away from Baltimore and enjoying, absorbing the spiritual grandeur of Rome, the world’s Eternal City. Over the past eight years, I have served as Chair of the Board of Governors of the Pontifical North American College in Rome, a privilege I will relinquish this November when my term...Read More

The Catholic Review Cathedral of Mary Our Queen The celebration of the Mass of Chrism marks a privileged moment for the People of God throughout the Church Universal this week and what a privileged moment this is for me to stand in your midst, the People of God of Baltimore. Should the history and development...Read More