Cardinal Edwin F. O’Brien – Homilies and Talks

The Catholic Review Editor’s note: The following text is excerpted from Cardinal O’Brien’s Mass of Thanksgiving homily, given March 4 at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen, Baltimore, Maryland. Since…

The Catholic Review Editor’s note: Cardinal O’Brien gave the following homily at the consistory pilgrimage farewell Mass at the Pontifical North American College Feb. 20 in Rome. There are two…

The Catholic Review As I go to Rome for next week’s consistory, at which I will be elevated to the College of Cardinals, I do so with thoughts of the…

The Catholic Review Canon law requires each Catholic bishop to make a pilgrimage (or ad limina visit) to Rome every five years to report on the state of his diocese…

The Catholic Review “What’s old is new again.” This well-known expression sums up the vast majority of the comments I’ve heard since our Church began using the new translation of…

The Catholic Review A study conducted in the 1980s indicated that most priests and religious first seriously thought about ministry around the age of 11 and then again in their…

The Catholic Review A study conducted in the 1980s indicated that most priests and religious first seriously thought about ministry around the age of 11 and then again in their…

The Catholic Review “Religious Freedom expresses what is unique about the human person, for it allows us to direct our personal and social life to God, in whose light the…

The Catholic Review In the recent Message for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees, Pope Benedict XVI invites us to advance the new evangelization in the context of migration…

The Catholic Review The unfortunate story in this week’s Catholic Review about Our Lady of the Fields Church in Millersville underscores the Church’s critical responsibilities in the areas of child…