As I offer this Holy Mass, I join you in lifting up colleagues who died in this past year and in commending to the Lord the mission that is yours each day in serving the needs of individuals and in serving the common good of diverse communities across the State of Maryland.Read More

Building a better world—protecting innocent human life, caring for our common home, overcoming divisions, defeating evil with good—this can come about, and only then partially, when we as a community of faith, journeying together, embrace the reversal of values that Jesus lays out for us in the Beatitudes, not only by his words but by...Read More

In this way, we are true to the love we see on the face of Santo Niño and the still greater love to which the Cross of Magellan witnesses – that love in which we share most fully on earth in the Eucharist.Read More

Let us pray to the Holy Spirit as we seek to be renewed as missionary disciples. Like Ezekiel, let us pray that the Spirit would resurrect us in our dryness and heeding the voice of Jesus in the Gospel, let us pray for charity – love of God and neighbor, a charity that evangelizes, a...Read More