From the Archbishop

Message from Archbishop Lori on motion to release Attorney General Report

Archbishop William E. Lori has made the following statement on a motion to release the Maryland Attorney General's report on the archdiocese’s handling of child sexual abuse allegations dating back to the 1940s.
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily: “Radical Solidarity and the Protection of Preborn Life”

Dear brother bishops, as disciples of the Savior who assumed our human nature in the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary, let allow the Holy Spirit to unite us that we may speak with one voice and one heart in proclaiming the Gospel of Life and in defending human life from the moment of conception...
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Feast of Pope St. Leo the Great; USCCB Institute on the Catechism

As a teacher of the faith, Pope St. Leo was both clear and pastoral. He was not a speculative theologian but he knew how to draw from the sources to clarify the Church’s faith.
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily: All Saints Sisters of the Poor 150th Anniversary

As your friends, we commit ourselves to pray for vocations to your community, that the good work which the Lord has begun in you may continue and be brought to fulfillment in the Kingdom where he lives and reigns, world without end. Amen.
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily: 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time

Let us climb the sycamore, let us get Jesus’ attention, let’s invite him in. Then let us rejoice as salvation comes to our house! That is all we truly need!
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Holy Sepulchre Investiture; Votive Mass, Our Lady of Palestine

Let us ask Mary, who carried the Word made flesh in her womb to open the Scriptures for us this morning, so that we may bask in the great events of our salvation, events that unfolded in the land made holy by the footsteps of the Redeemer.
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Blue and Red Mass 2022

You, our first responders – police officers, firefighters, public safety officials – and all the civic officials and administrators who support them – you strive each day to be ambassadors of justice here in the City of Baltimore and throughout the State of Maryland.
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Rite of Institution of Lectors

My warmest congratulations to those of you about to be instituted in this ministry as also to your wives and families who share with you this journey of formation, which, God willing, will lead to diaconal ordination in the not-too-distant future.
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Priests’ Convocation; Mass of the Holy Spirit

If all this seems to be unrealistic, unreachable, hovering at 30,000 feet, perhaps you and I have only to recall brother priests of Baltimore who have been “bright lights”, beacons of the Spirit, in our midst.
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Inaugural Mass; Terry Sawyer

In an age of cultural and intellectual fragmentation, Loyola is poised to render still greater service, both to the Catholic intellectual tradition and to the wider culture, by helping us and our contemporaries to integrate faith and reason, and helping all of us to overcome dead-end, polarizing ideologies, of the right and of the left,...
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Feast of the Most Holy Rosary

As this Mass concludes, the Supreme Knight will install new members of the Board. The installation ceremony, though brief, outlines the high responsibilities for the good of the Order entrusted to each of you.
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Wednesday of the 27th Week in Ordinary Time

In this year when my classmates and I celebrate our 45th anniversary as priests, I am delighted to come home to the Mount to offer this holy Mass.
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