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Denver Catholic Staff
Dec 18, 20192 min read
A homework assignment led to 50 years of priesthood
Monsignor Robert Amundsen found his vocation in an unlikely way — while working on a homework assignment in 4th grade. He was a student...


Denver Catholic Staff
Nov 25, 20194 min read
Domus Pacis offers respite to families battling life-threatening illness
In 1997, when Marylouise “Duck” White-Petteruti’s mother was dying of lung cancer and life seemed stripped of all joy, Duck, a native...


Denver Catholic Staff
Aug 22, 20194 min read
Country mission church marks centennial anniversary
A hundred years ago, the Catholics of Weldona, a farm community 80 miles northeast of Denver, built a red brick church topped by a white...


Denver Catholic Staff
Jul 25, 20195 min read
Seeds being sowed for new parishes
“It’s not that often that bishops are able to announce the kind of good news I am about to share with you,” Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila...


Denver Catholic Staff
Jul 18, 20196 min read
A holy Church begins with you
Even as the Catholic Church deals with the disgrace and shame of the clergy sexual abuse scandal and moves forward with repentance and...
Denver Catholic Staff
Dec 5, 20182 min read
Msgr. John Slattery remembered as a ‘founding father’ of Springs diocese
By Veronica Ambul | Colorado Catholic Herald Msgr. John Slattery, the first vicar general of the Diocese of Colorado Springs and founding...


Denver Catholic Staff
Jan 8, 20184 min read
Guardian Angels Parish outgrows century-old frame church
At 11 a.m. on January 1, Guardian Angels Parish in Mead dedicated it’s new parish center, which includes a beautiful church. The event’s...


Denver Catholic Staff
Aug 29, 20174 min read
Risen Christ Parish honors past 50 years, looks to future
Its unique architecture has led some people to call it “the ski jump” church. The pastor, however, prefers to call it “the launching pad...


Denver Catholic Staff
Jul 6, 20174 min read
Eastern Plains parish is ‘God’s happy acre’
While St. Mary Parish in Brush is 106 years old, the church building itself just marked its 50th anniversary on June 19. To honor the...


Denver Catholic Staff
Jun 5, 20174 min read
Arvada parish marks half-century of Christian love, community
On the feast of St. Joan of Arc, May 30, the only church in the Denver Archdiocese named after the 15th century French peasant girl...


Denver Catholic Staff
Apr 28, 20174 min read
On Divine Mercy Sunday faithful urged to trust in Christ’s mercy, pass it on
On April 23, Divine Mercy Sunday, hundreds of people turned out at St. Rafka Maronite Catholic Church for a celebration that offered the...


Denver Catholic Staff
Feb 21, 20173 min read
St. Bernadette’s Parish provides ministries with big reach
St. Bernadette Parish, the pioneer Catholic church of Lakewood, outgrew its first worship space just 18 years after being founded in...


Denver Catholic Staff
Dec 21, 20162 min read
Lourdes water returns to Denver
Editor’s note: This story is from 2016. As of 2022, Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish no longer carries water from Lourdes. After a...
Denver Catholic Staff
Oct 12, 20163 min read
St. Dominic’s Oktoberfest serves up faith with beer, food and fun
The original Oktoberfest was a party that—against tradition—was open to all, not just royalty, to celebrate the wedding of Bavaria’s...
Denver Catholic Staff
Aug 30, 20163 min read
“A priest is nothing without his people”
“We used to play Mass as children,” Beatriz de los Santos remembers of her brother, Jorge. Even when he was only six years old, she...
Denver Catholic Staff
Jul 18, 20163 min read
“Today I must stay at your house”
On July 9, Deacon Guillermo Bustillos was ordained as a priest by Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila in Sagrado Corazón (Sacred Heart)...


Denver Catholic Staff
Apr 6, 20166 min read
Two decades of mission: Redemptoris Mater Missionary Seminary celebrates 20 years
During the closing Mass of World Youth Day in 1993, Pope Saint John Paul II charged the young people of the world “to go, in the power of...


Denver Catholic Staff
Jan 21, 20165 min read
Worthy of the Name: Vision document aims to revitalize Catholic schools
Catholic schools week is Jan. 31 – Feb 6, and in honor of the occasion, the Office of Catholic Schools is releasing a vision document...


Denver Catholic Staff
Dec 18, 20155 min read
Responding to refugees in radical love
With so many opposing voices regarding the Syrian refugee crisis in America, it’s hard to know how to react. On one end of the spectrum,...


Denver Catholic Staff
Dec 11, 20153 min read
Build, and they will come
Having a small church can lead to big problems, especially in a booming area. Father Alan Hartway and Guardian Angels Catholic Church in...
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