Our Lady must be very pleased with this historic Church and all of you who join us on this special day. Our minds are lifted up to heaven, and our hearts should follow there, as we remember that this feast is one of the earliest celebrated in all of Christendom, after Easter and Christmas. This...Read More

To Bishop Gordon D. Bennett, in the name of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, I express the warmest congratulations together with our heartfelt gratitude for your faithful, pastoral work among us. May the Lord bless and sustain you as you preach the Gospel of Jesus and offer the sacraments of the Church to God’s people in...Read More

This morning the Holy See announced the appointment by Pope John Paul II of Monsignor Mitchell T. Rozanski as Auxiliary Bishop of Baltimore and Titular Bishop of Walla Walla. With the many who know Bishop-elect Rozanski personally, I am deeply grateful to the Holy Father for this appointment and look forward to working with the...Read More

Isaiah 61:1-3 The passage from the Prophet Isaiah is a reminder to us all of how the Lord God operates: Isaiah recounts how he was anointed by the Lord. “He has sent me to bring glad tidings to the lowly, to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to the prisoners,...Read More

With two very important exceptions, the Shoah and the deeper levels of theological discourse, which I will deal with at the end of this paper, the agenda for dialogue between Catholics and Jews has been rather remarkably constant since its early days at the time of the Second Vatican Council. One of the first formal...Read More

The first half of the 20th Century was arguably the most violent and tragic period in human history. Two World Wars devastated much of the globe. Advances in technology enabled totalitarian regimes to destroy entire populations. Indeed, a new vocabulary with words such as “genocide” and “Holocaust” had to be developed to describe the horrors...Read More

Estimado Padre Gilmour, En nombre de la Arquidiócesis de Baltimore y en el mío propio, les doy mi más sentido pésame a las familias de los niños que fallecieron y a toda la comunidad hispana. Que el Señor les dé consuelo en la esperanza de la vida eterna, y que Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe interceda...Read More

Questions are being raised about offering the Eucharist to certain Catholic politicians whose records indicate their support for abortion. Let no one be confused about the fundamental importance of the human life issue in our ongoing public policy debate. In homilies given over the years and published in the Catholic Review I have said the...Read More