Father Rapisarda has been with you now for quite a while and you have found him to be a good priest and a gentle shepherd who leads your parish and serves your pastoral needs with dedication and love.Read More

It is a joy to offer this concluding Mass of the Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life. Clearly, he was a primary architect of the pro-life movement in the United States, an architect who helped lay its foundations, foundations we continue to build on.Read More

We’ve gathered in a venerable church named for Spanish saints, St. Ildefonso, Bishop of Toledo and St. Tomasso, Bishop of Villa Nueva.Read More

We stand on holy ground because the soil is soaked by the blood of martyrs, including that of St. Peter, those who witnessed to Christ with their very lives during the persecution of the Emperor Nero.Read More

We’ve gathered in this chapel named for Pope Clement VII, among the most sacred places in this Basilica, positioned as it is so close to the relics of St. Peter.Read More

On this Feast of the Epiphany, let us rejoice as the light of Christ, shining in our midst, lights the way to a future full of hope for St. Ignatius Parish, for the Archdiocese of Baltimore, and for the Church throughout the world.Read More

The Feast of the Holy Family celebrates a wonderful mystery. It celebrates the fact that the Son of God really did become one of us, except for sin.Read More

Mary and Joseph’s unique vocation was to form the humanity the Son of God assumed, to prepare him for the mission for which his Heavenly Father sent him, a mission that Mary and Joseph, at the time, could not have fully comprehended.Read More