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Archbishop Lori’s Talk – “Your Face, Lord, Do I Seek (Ps. 27:8): Reflections on Contemporary Atheism and Belief”

Archbishop William E. Lori
March 9, 2018
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This afternoon I don’t have to craft a thirty second elevator speech but I have been asked to deal with the vast topic of atheism in forty-five minutes. I can do that adequately but I can at least offer you some reflections so that you can write your own “elevator speech” – your own succinct and convincing summary designed to help unbelievers to seek and find the face of God. Consider this talk, then, “a pastor’s introduction” to the contemporary problem of atheism and unbelief, beginning with my own introduction to the topic many years ago.

Matt Himes and John Bilenki, seminarians for the Archdiocese of Baltimore, were among 10 men studying at St. Mary’s Seminary and University in Baltimore who spent a recent winter break at San Lucas Mission in Guatemala. (Courtesy Matt Himes)

Baltimore seminarians spend break serving in Guatemala

Emily Rosenthal Alster
March 9, 2018
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The seminarians ranged from pre-theology to those in their temporary diaconate year. They worked alongside the native people in many projects.

U.S. Capitol Police officers arrest a protester during a "Catholic Day of Action With Dreamers" protest inside the Russell Senate Office Building Feb. 27 in Washington. (CNS photo/Jaclyn Lippelmann, Catholic Standard)

Bishop says U.S. prelates unite behind ‘vulnerable’ in immigration battle

Rhina Guidos
March 9, 2018
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WASHINGTON — As the once-feared March 5 deadline came and went, a bishop from the U.S.-Mexico border prayed with young adults in the streets of Washington just before they marched and chanted near the Washington Monument on the day President Donald Trump set as a deadline to end a program that keeps many of them […]

Pope Francis addresses a joint meeting of Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington in this Sept. 24, 2015, file photo. As the pope marks his fifth anniversary in the papacy, a new Pew Research poll of U.S. Catholics shows their regard of the pope is, for the first time, colored by their political leanings. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

U.S. Catholics’ political leanings affect their approval ratings of pope

Mark Pattison
March 8, 2018
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A Pew survey was conducted Jan. 10-15 among 1,503 adults. Results show how political leanings affect perception of Pope Francis.

Members of the Border Network for Human Rights and Borders Dreamers and Youth Alliance hold a banner during protest March 5 outside a U.S. Federal Courthouse in El Paso, Texas, to demand that Congress pass a "clean" DREAM Act to save the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. The measure is the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act. (CNS photo/Jose Luis Gonzalez, Reuters)

Third federal judge rules on ending DACA; he says Trump acted legally

Catholic News Service
March 7, 2018
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A federal judge in Maryland has ruled that President Donald Trump acted legally in ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, saying “the decision to wind down DACA in an orderly manner was rational.”

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