“The Eucharist unites and strengthens us in our efforts to secure justice for the unborn, and to create a culture wherein every human life is cherished, nurtured and protected from the moment of conception until natural death,” said Archbishop Lori, chairman-elect of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities.
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Archbishop Lori encourages vaccinations as ‘act of charity and love’
As civic leaders hope to expand access to COVID-19 vaccines in the coming weeks and months, Archbishop William E. Lori is renewing his call for everyone throughout the Archdiocese of Baltimore to get vaccinated as “an act of charity and love.”
Baltimore Archdiocese’s Life is Beautiful Mass honors Alvaré, Clarksville couple
“We gather to celebrate and to give thanks for the gift of human life and to proclaim and give thanks for its beauty,” Archbishop Lori said, “and to honor those who are apostles and missionaries of the message that life is beautiful.”
Maryland bishops endorse use of Pfizer, Moderna COVID vaccines
The Maryland Catholic Conference – which represents bishops serving the archdioceses of Baltimore and Washington as well as the diocese of Wilmington, Del. – is recommending that the faithful receive COVID-19 vaccines developed by U.S. pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and Moderna when available.
Archbishop Lori celebrates Mass of thanksgiving for Father McGivney’s beatification
Archbishop William E. Lori celebrated Mass Nov. 24 in the chapel of St. Mary’s Seminary in Baltimore in thanksgiving for the beatification of Father Michael J. McGivney, an alumnus of the seminary, the oldest in the United States.
Archbishop Lori remembers COVID-19 dead on solemnity of Christ the King
Archbishop William E. Lori took the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe, to remember those who have died from COVID-19, which includes nearly 260,000 in the United States, and several thousand in the Archdiocese of Baltimore.
Archbishop Lori to lead USCCB pro-life committee, Wisconsin priest chosen to be next general secretary
Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore was elected on a vote of 139-102 over Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila of Denver to lead the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities, it was announced during the first day of the USCCB’s annual fall general assembly Nov. 16.
Archbishop Lori joins celebration as Richmond diocese marks bicentennial year
In his introductory comments, Archbishop Lori noted that when the Diocese of Richmond was founded in 1820, the church in the United States was in its infancy.
Archbishop Lori issues statement on election
“I thank God that our country came together peacefully to observe one of the most cherished privileges of our democracy, our right to vote,” Archbishop Lori said.
Archbishop Lori says Blessed McGivney, as parish priest, embodied beatitudes
Blessed Michael J. McGivney was a priest of the Eight Beatitudes because he lived them “so consistently and thoroughly” as a parish priest and as the founder of the Knights of Columbus, said Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori, the Knights’ supreme chaplain.
Watch livestream of Archbishop Lori’s Mass of Thanksgiving for the beatification of Blessed McGivney
Archbishop William E. Lori, Supreme Chaplain of the Knights of Columbus will celebrate a Mass of Thanksgiving for the beatification of Father Michael McGivney, founder of the Knights of Columbus, Nov. 1 at noon from Saint Mary’s Church in New Haven, Conn.
Father McGivney, model parish priest with ‘zeal’ for Gospel and serving faithful, beatified
Blessed Michael J. McGivney was “an outstanding witness of Christian solidarity and fraternal assistance” because of his “zeal” for proclaiming the Gospel and his “generous concern for his brothers and sisters,” Pope Francis said in his apostolic letter of beatification of the founder of the Knights of Columbus.