We love our country best when we insist that it uphold authentic human values based on truth and charity. It is true patriotism that the Order seeks to instill and confirm in us.Read More

By living such an authentically Christian life, we answer the question – “Where is the mercy?” – “Where is the hope?” God’s mercy not only forgives, it also transforms.Read More

You are here today to support one another in growing in faith, love, and hope as the path to Christ. In Mary, we see how these virtues filled her with grace, opened her God’s initiative, and enabled her to consent to her unique vocation, a vocation which led her to share fully in the sufferings...Read More

As we celebrate All Souls’ Day, let us remember our beloved dead—parents, grandparents, spouses, friends, even our enemies, and let us pray earnestly for the happy repose of their souls.Read More

It is always a pleasure to visit my alma mater, but I could not have come on a more propitious day than this – the day on which your new Rector is to be installed and the feast day of St. Simon and Jude, Simon the Zealot and Jude the Patron of Hope.Read More

As the effects of the prolonged government shutdown continue to unfold across the nation, my heart turns to Maryland and to those who are already struggling and will feel its effects most deeply in the Archdiocese of Baltimore.Read More

We’ve gathered this afternoon to celebrate the blessings of these past 25 years, as this “mission church” has proved itself to be truly a missionary church that has reached out in welcome to everyone seeking a spiritual home, and in a special way, to those who have recently come to the United States.Read More

We are living in days that call for the unconquerable faith of Abraham, and likewise, the faith of Ignatius and the Jesuit missionaries and martyrs, not to mention my predecessors who helped lay the foundations of the Church in these United States.Read More