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.
Installed today at the packed Cathedral of Mary Our Queen, O’Brien called the unborn child’s right to life the “greatest civil rights issue of our time” and one that is as scandal to people of good will everywhere.
Turning his attention to blight in Baltimore City, O’Brien pledged efforts to address the matter, stating, “We cannot allow large portions of our city to die.”
