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This morning the Holy See announced the appointment by Pope John Paul II of Monsignor Mitchell T. Rozanski as Auxiliary Bishop of Baltimore and Titular Bishop of Walla Walla. With the many who know Bishop-elect Rozanski personally, I am deeply grateful to the Holy Father for this appointment and look forward to working with the […]

Isaiah 61:1-3 The passage from the Prophet Isaiah is a reminder to us all of how the Lord God operates: Isaiah recounts how he was anointed by the Lord. “He has sent me to bring glad tidings to the lowly, to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to the prisoners, […]

The Honorable Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr. State House Annapolis, Maryland 21401 Dear Governor Ehrlich: We come to you about the matter of capital punishment and the prospect of yet another Maryland execution of an individual who has been found guilty of the crime of murder. We write to encourage the application of your mercy to […]

With two very important exceptions, the Shoah and the deeper levels of theological discourse, which I will deal with at the end of this paper, the agenda for dialogue between Catholics and Jews has been rather remarkably constant since its early days at the time of the Second Vatican Council. One of the first formal […]

The first half of the 20th Century was arguably the most violent and tragic period in human history. Two World Wars devastated much of the globe. Advances in technology enabled totalitarian regimes to destroy entire populations. Indeed, a new vocabulary with words such as “genocide” and “Holocaust” had to be developed to describe the horrors […]

Questions are being raised about offering the Eucharist to certain Catholic politicians whose records indicate their support for abortion. Let no one be confused about the fundamental importance of the human life issue in our ongoing public policy debate. In homilies given over the years and published in the Catholic Review I have said the […]

Dear Father Gilmour, On behalf of the Archdiocese of Baltimore and on my own behalf, please convey to the families of the children who died and to the Hispanic community the expression of my deepest sympathy. May the Lord grant them consolation in the hope of eternal life, and may Our Lady of Guadalupe intercede […]

Estimado Padre Gilmour, En nombre de la Arquidiócesis de Baltimore y en el mío propio, les doy mi más sentido pésame a las familias de los niños que fallecieron y a toda la comunidad hispana. Que el Señor les dé consuelo en la esperanza de la vida eterna, y que Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe interceda […]