Love – and its effective expression – is the answer to many of the world’s problems, Baltimore’s new archbishop told his flock today.

In a wide-ranging homily that touched on Maryland’s Catholic history, religious freedom, the duty of bishops to morally inform political discourse, clerical sexual abuse, urban decay and the unborn child’s right to life, Archbishop Edwin O’Brien, Baltimore’s 15th ordinary, outlined his hopes and plans for American Catholicism’s premiere see.