From the Archbishop

Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Solemnity of Jesus Christ King of the Universe

Our sharing in Jesus’ victory over sin and death should bring us hope and joy, no matter how difficult or challenging the times may be.
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Archbishop Lori’s Remarks: Final Remarks; Knights of Columbus Mid-Year Meeting

As this important Mid-Year meeting comes to its conclusion, we are on the cusp of celebrating the Feast of Christ the King. If ever this feast day were more welcome and necessary, the year 2020 has to be it!
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Archbishop Lori’s Remarks: State Deputies Meeting; Knights of Columbus

As this important meeting proceeds, dear brother Knights, please consider the importance of the beatification of our founder.
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A message from Archbishop Lori on the McCarrick report

At a time when you, dear faithful, have had to endure so much suffering and anguish due to the worldwide pandemic, economic pressures, civil unrest and the ugly specter of racism, my heart truly aches to think that your Church could be a further occasion of pain and trauma.
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Archbishop Lori Comments: 200th Anniversary of the Diocese of Richmond; Greetings from the Metropolitan Archbishop of Baltimore

As the Metropolitan Archbishop of Baltimore, I am honored and delighted to join with the clergy, religious, and laity of the Premier See in offering heartfelt greetings and warmest congratulations to the Diocese of Richmond as you celebrate your 200th anniversary. 
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Friday of the 31st Week in Ordinary Time

At some point in my life, I began meeting regularly with auditors, and along the way, learned about GAAP accounting – GAAP being an acronym for Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, a kind of gold-standard in the accounting industry. 
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Solemnity of All Saints; Mass of Thanksgiving for the Beatification of Bl. Michael McGivney

In this liturgy, we celebrate the holy ones who have been beatified and canonized, including those whose names we know and with whose histories we are familiar.
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Installation of the Ministry of Lector and Acolyte; St. John the Evangelist, Westminster

At the heart of our faith and at the heart of the priesthood are Word and Sacrament: the revealed Word of God as taught and transmitted to us by the Church, and those sacramental signs through which God sanctifies and forms his people, the pinnacle of which is the Most Blessed Eucharist. 
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily: 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time; Installation of Fr. Rich Gray

When, as a parish family, we are united in love of God and love of one another, then our love overflows beyond the walls of the Church, out into the community.
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily: 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time

... we must be wary when everything in our society is politicized … when politics becomes not only bitter but indeed all-consuming, and when every societal problem occasions partisan bickering but no solutions.
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily: 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time/Centenary of the birth of Cardinal Hickey

Cardinal Hickey was a person of strong convictions and drive – but it was never about himself or his ambitions – always about the Church and others.
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