The Beatitudes are not rigid moral rules cloaked in kinder, gentler language. Rather, they are above all a portrait of Christ whose coming into the world ushered in the Kingdom of God with reversed views and values, very different from the world all around us.Read More

I am delighted that you came here to Baltimore to discern how best to carry forward your ministry, so important for the life of the Church, and pray your deliberations, emboldened by trust in God’s providential love, will bear fruit in abundance for the Church in the United States and for the dioceses which each...Read More

In calling us to discipleship, the Lord doubles down on what it will cost us. If we would personally share in the poverty of the poor, then we must be detached from property and possessions.Read More

In defending these United States, you also defend its values, and the freedoms which are embedded in its founding documents, chief among them, religious liberty.Read More

I am here to celebrate with you because I am confident you are teachers but more than teachers – you are witnesses to the Lord’s love – those who first allow yourselves to be loved by the Lord and by others so that you can hand on that same love to your students by loving...Read More

Faith, like truth and reality, has its source in God; it is his gift, given us at Baptism.Read More

Through the Eucharist, we join with St. John Vianney and Bl. Michael McGivney in giving the God of our salvation thanks and praise, honor and adoration.Read More

This evening, I am proud to join with our Worthy Supreme Knight in honoring my good friend, Carl A. Anderson.Read More