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June 8, 2026

Archbishop Lori Homily: Knights of Columbus State Chaplains’ Meeting

The truth is that many are coming to the Church to escape ennui – the same old diatribes and insults hurled on social media, the oft-repeated resentments, weariness from having to choose sides, fatigue induced by being measured by “likes” or bullied by “dislikes”, fatigue brought on by the isolation and loneliness endemic in our culture.

Archbishop William E. LoriArchbishop Lori Homily, From the Archbishop

June 8, 2026

Archbishop Lori Homily: Votive Mass Blessed Michael McGivney

As a pastor intent on gathering the flock of God, he put unity and fraternity at the heart of his Order, a unity that flowed from his own union with the heart of Christ, a unity vital for the success of the Church’s mission and the Order’s mission.

June 2, 2026

COMMENTARY: The Future Isn’t Artificial – It’s Human

A machine may summarize data, imitate conversation or identify patterns hidden within vast oceans of information. It cannot love. It cannot sacrifice. It cannot discern truth in the deepest human sense.

Archbishop William E. LoriCommunications & Media, From the Archbishop, Press Release

June 1, 2026

Archbishop Lori Homily: Trinity Sunday

The Spirit works in each of our hearts and in the whole assembly, enabling us to offer to God our work of heart and hand, indeed, our very selves, enabling us thereby to become more like the Christ whom we receive, so that the Father can see and love in us what he sees and...

Archbishop William E. LoriArchbishop Lori Homily, From the Archbishop

June 1, 2026

Archbishop Lori Homily: Confirmation at Immaculate Conception, Towson

The Spirit will help you to know how much Jesus loves you, and how to share in that love by participating in Sunday Mass and in going to Confession regularly for the forgiveness of sins.

Archbishop William E. LoriArchbishop Lori Homily, From the Archbishop

May 26, 2026

Archbishop Lori Homily: Pentecost Sunday, Cathedral of Mary Our Queen

It turns out that joy is not something we manufacture, something we create. Joy is one of the outcomes, one of the results, one of the fruits of the Holy Spirit.

Archbishop William E. LoriArchbishop Lori Homily, From the Archbishop

May 21, 2026

Archbishop William Lori on the passing of Bishop John H. Ricard, S.S.J.

Bishop John Ricard’s death is a profound loss for our local Church and for the entire Catholic community in the United States.

Archbishop William E. LoriFrom the Archbishop

May 19, 2026

Archbishop Lori Homily: Solemnity of the Ascension

There in his glorified humanity he displays the wounds of his Passion, and with these wounds of love and glory pleads for us at the right hand of God.

Archbishop William E. LoriArchbishop Lori Homily, From the Archbishop

May 19, 2026

Archbishop Lori Homily: Diaconal Ordination (Transitional)

Piensen en aquellos momentos de silencio en los que el Señor tocó por primera vez sus corazones, y los invitó a seguirlo más de cerca en el servicio a su Iglesia.

Archbishop William E. LoriArchbishop Lori Homily, From the Archbishop

May 19, 2026

Archbishop Lori Homily: Diaconal Ordination

But at base it is the Lord himself who called you as his heart spoke to yours, in moments of quiet prayer, with the sound and fury of the world kept at bay.

Archbishop William E. LoriArchbishop Lori Homily, From the Archbishop

May 19, 2026

Archbishop Lori Homily: Feast of St. Matthias

But a priest, who is truly a friend of the Risen Lord and his witness in the world, will focus primarily on the people who clamor for his attention, and his overriding concern will be to produce in them a harvest of holiness, the good and lasting fruit of which Jesus speaks in the Gospel.

Archbishop William E. LoriArchbishop Lori Homily, From the Archbishop

May 19, 2026