For the past two years, the Church here in the City of Baltimore has been actively engaged in the Seek the City to Come initiative. Over these two years, our process has engaged almost 6,000 people in prayerful listening, visioning, and discernment. And now, having carefully considered all that we have seen and heard, including...Read More

So let us rejoice and be glad. For there burns within the Church a fire of love that does not go out. There blows in the Church a breeze that never fails to cool the heat, a spring of living water that does not dry up. We have only to open our hearts to the...Read More

In English 17 de mayo del 2024 Queridos amigos en Cristo, Durante más de dos años se han llevado a cabo las consultas de la iniciativa Busquemos la Ciudad Venidera. Agradezco a todos los que participaron en este proceso, ya sea en sus parroquias o en una de las muchas reuniones regionales o de la...Read More

In the days to come, I invite you to keep your eyes fixed on the Lord and on the mission that he has entrusted to us all. Let us come together as a family of faith, “striving to preserve the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace” (Eph 4:3).Read More

If we are to have a future, it must be a future of love. The world’s anger passes away into oblivion, but Christ’s love is eternal. Only love is credible. Only love drives the Church’s mission forward.Read More

Today’s Scriptures turn the phrase, ‘to give as good as you get’, on its head. They inspire us not only to transform the meaning of that phrase, but they also reveal why and how our lives should be different, radically different, from the world around us.Read More

In today’s Gospel, Jesus shows us a better way to be connected. . . connected not just culturally, morally, legally, or electronically – but connected in love.Read More

By willing it, we “give God permission” to unite us to himself and one another by means of his abundant graces flowing from him to us through the Church. In a word, you and I have to decide how, when, and where we will allow the Lord to take us to himself and make us...Read More