Archbishops and bishops

The U.S. Catholic bishops do not condone unlawful entry or circumventions of our nation's immigration laws. The bishops believe that reforms are necessary in order for our nation's immigration system to respond to the realities of separated families and labor demands that compel people to immigrate to the United States, whether in an authorized or unauthorized fashion.

Trinity Sunday - 2012

Deuteronomy 4:32-34,39-40

Romans 8:14-17

Matthew 28:16-20 

The readings on this, the Feast of the Most Holy Trinity, are both awe-inspiring and intimacy inviting.

Surrounded by family, friends and supporters, Father Brian Fallon and four other newly ordained priests celebrated their first Masses last weekend, just one day after their May 26 ordination at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis. It was a culminating moment, a realization of all the hard work they had achieved through their years of formation in the seminary and a visible “yes” to God’s vocational calling.

OTTAWA, Ontario — Raymond Lahey, the retired bishop of Antigonish, Nova Scotia, who was convicted of importing child pornography, has been laicized by the Vatican, said the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops.

BALTIMORE —- In a jubilant liturgy that highlighted the historic roots of the Baltimore Archdiocese while also looking to the future, Archbishop William E. Lori was installed as the 16th archbishop of Baltimore May 16 at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen.

A smiling Archbishop Lori wore the same pectoral cross that belonged to Archbishop John Carroll -- the first archbishop of Baltimore -- as he was led to the bishop's chair by Cardinal Edwin F. O'Brien and Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, apostolic nuncio to the United States.