Page 2118 – Archdiocese of Baltimore

Welcome Address for Visit of Pope John Paul II

November 8, 1995

Most Holy Father, With joy we welcome you to Baltimore in Maryland. We welcome you, remembering how you have spoken in Eastern Europe with such persuasive power of the God-given right to religious freedom. We welcome you to Maryland where, before any other place in the English-speaking world, the Catholic-led general assembly legislated in 1639 […]

Welcome to Pope John Paul II

Archdiocese Staff

November 8, 1995

Keeler Homilies

Most Holy Father, It is a joy to welcome you to the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen. Here to greet you are parishioners from throughout the Archdiocese of Baltimore, members of organizations, representatives of Catholic educational and health care institutions – in short the Archdiocese in miniature. Here, as well, are leaders of other Christian […]

Dialogue

Archdiocese Staff

February 11, 1995

Cardinal William H. Keeler - Homilies and Talks, Keeler Homilies

For Catholics, the Second Vatican Council gave great impulse to dialogue with other churches and other faiths. This dialogue entails personal discussions among committed individuals who are qualified to speak because of their knowledge of issues and their official positions within the faith groups they represent. Such dialogue draws on personal experience as well as our knowledge of scripture, tradition (for Catholics this tradition is expressed in conciliar and papal teaching through the centuries) and theology, and depends also and especially for success in the character and integrity of the participants.

Prepackaged Media Images of the Church (Presidential Address)

Archdiocese Staff

November 14, 1994

Keeler Homilies

“On a global level there is often a prepackaged story” about the Church said Cardinal-designate William Keeler of Baltimore, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and the U. S. Catholic Conference, in a presidential address Nov. 14 to the U. S. Bishops meeting in Washington. This prepackaged story tells “of an ailing pope […]

A Tale of Two Cities (Opening Address)

Archdiocese Staff

November 15, 1993

Keeler Homilies

My brother bishops, observers and guests, and those who are with us by television, Charles Dickens saw good and evil at work in his own day and so came to write “A Tale of Two Cities.” Like Dickens, I wish to tell a tale of two cities, a tale of cities, like our land itself, […]

Nostra Aetate; Twenty-five Years Later

Archdiocese Staff

November 18, 1990

Cardinal William H. Keeler - Homilies and Talks, Keeler Homilies

I am grateful to Cardinal Law for his endorsement of this afternoon of dialogue. To His Eminence the Church in our country is deeply indebted for his leadership in our early days of interfaith and ecumenical work. In recent years, it was Cardinal Law’s initiative which prepared the way for Catholic-Jewish dialogue in Poland and thus det in place the framework which helped those in Poland find their way out of the delicate situation created by the Carmelite Monastery near the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.

Jewish-Christian Dialogue: After Nostra Aetate

Archdiocese Staff

April 20, 1990

Cardinal William H. Keeler - Homilies and Talks, Keeler Homilies

As I thank Cardinal Hickey, a personal friend and a friend committed to interfaith amity, for his leadership in helping us to prepare for this program, I recall a grace we shared 25 years ago. Together we were witness to the moving Second Vatican Council discussions in the development of the document we celebrate in this colloquium, Nostra Aetate.

Pro-Life Homily

Archdiocese Staff

January 21, 1990

Keeler Homilies

In recent months I have publicly addressed such current issues as racism, religious freedom, especially in Europe, justice and peace in the Middle East and in Central America, and ecological concerns. Today I turn to an issue daily featured in the news media, the issue of human life. In the first reading, the prophet Isaiah […]

Twenty-Five Years After Nostra Aetate: The State of Catholic-Jewish Relations

Archdiocese Staff

January 1, 1990

Cardinal William H. Keeler - Homilies and Talks, Keeler Homilies

A discussion from the 1990 Rabbinical Assembly

New Jersey man pleads guilty to plotting attack on pope during 2015 visit

Matthew Gambino

April 5, 1917

News, Vatican

Santos Colon planned to utilize a sniper to shoot the pope during his public Sunday Mass Sept. 27 on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia. He also planned to set off bombs in the surrounding area.