Like the monuments, museum exhibits and historical structures, the wisdom passed down by great leaders like the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. lives on. Each year as the calendar reaches the third Monday in January – this year, Monday, Jan. 15 – we are prompted to pause to remember his life and impact.Read More

We stand on holy ground because the soil is soaked by the blood of martyrs, including that of St. Peter, those who witnessed to Christ with their very lives during the persecution of the Emperor Nero.Read More

We’ve gathered in this chapel named for Pope Clement VII, among the most sacred places in this Basilica, positioned as it is so close to the relics of St. Peter.Read More

On this Feast of the Epiphany, let us rejoice as the light of Christ, shining in our midst, lights the way to a future full of hope for St. Ignatius Parish, for the Archdiocese of Baltimore, and for the Church throughout the world.Read More

The Feast of the Holy Family celebrates a wonderful mystery. It celebrates the fact that the Son of God really did become one of us, except for sin.Read More

Mary and Joseph’s unique vocation was to form the humanity the Son of God assumed, to prepare him for the mission for which his Heavenly Father sent him, a mission that Mary and Joseph, at the time, could not have fully comprehended.Read More

Let us, then, humbly ask to see how God is working in and through situations we face in our world, in our nation, in our Church, and in our personal lives – whether it is interior darkness, or the conflicts and violence that threaten us, or illness and death, or material and spiritual poverty, or struggles...Read More

In today’s Gospel, we see how the plans of the Divine Architect unfold. See how the Angel comes ‘to the Virgin Mary betrothed to a man name Joseph of the House of David.Read More