In an era of global conflict, both Maryland?s atypical beginnings and Baltimore Archbishop William Cardinal Keeler?s Feb. 6 journey to the ecumenical conference Christian Churches Together, in Pasadena, Calif., are instructive.

“[And] there?s definitely no American bishop who is stronger in Catholic-Jewish relations than Cardinal Keeler,” said Mount St. Mary?s University and Seminary church historian the Rev. Michael Roach. Keeler?s ample ecumenical embrace reflects Maryland?s origins and the early activism of its first Catholic bishop, John Carroll.

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