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

As members of bench and bar, as advocates and ministers of justice, you are uniquely positioned to help our nation move ahead, in genuine solidarity, in truth and freedom, with an unwavering commitment to the common good and human flourishing. You are in a position to help people, especially those in need, to believe once...Read More

But faith and reason, pulling together, teach us that there is a beauty deeper than appearances, a beauty that is deeply embedded in every human being. This beauty is beheld by the Divine Eye – it is beheld in the sight of God, the God who is Creator and Redeemer of each person without exception.Read More