Ministry Directory

St. John The Evangelist, Roman Catholic Church ~ A Friendly and Prayerful Community Welcomes You!

Dear Friends,

Welcome to the Web Site of St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church in Frederick, Maryland. I hope you find our Web site informative and easy to use. The site has been designed so that you may see that we are an active community with a proud history and a bright future. While you can read about our proud history dating back to John Carroll of Carrolton and the diverse ministries in which hundreds of parishioners are active, you can only truly experience our community when you visit us in person. Therefore, I invite you personally to join us in worship when you are in the Frederick area.

Sincerely yours in Christ,
Monsignor. Dick Murphy

VISIT OUR NEW PHOTO GALLERY ENJOY  Click Here

PEACE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE 
“The economic challenge of today has many parallels with the political challenge that confronted the 
founders of our nation. In order to create a new form of political democracy they were compelled
to develop ways of thinking and political institutions that had never existed before. Their efforts
were arduous and their goals imperfectly realized, but they launched an experiment in the protection 
of civil and political rights that has prospered through the efforts of those who came after them. We Believe
the time has come for a similar experiment in securing economic rights: the creation of an order that guarantees
the minimum conditions of human dignity in the economic sphere for every person. By drawing on the resources
of the Catholic moral-religious tradition, we hope to make a contribution through this letter to such a new American
Experiment: a new venture to secure economic justice for all.” 

Economic Justice for All, Pastoral Letter on Catholic Social Teaching and the US Economy,
US Catholic Bishops, 1986.