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Bishop Jorge Rodriguez
Nov 21, 20173 min read
That which you most desire
(Photo: Pexels) In our Catholic tradition, we esteem the saints of heaven and ask them to help us with their prayers. But along with the...


Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
Nov 20, 20173 min read
Recovering a sense of celebration
With the seemingly ever-increasing number of days dedicated to celebrating various causes or events, the Church presents us with the...


Fr. Tadeusz Pacholczyk
Nov 16, 20173 min read
Doping Athletes
Image by Justin Smith from UK – Maria Sharapova – Wimbledon 2009, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7737952...


George Weigel
Nov 14, 20173 min read
As the Bard might say….
Four centuries after his death, Shakespeare remains a peerless playwright because of his remarkable insight into the human condition....


Mary Beth Bonacci
Nov 10, 20173 min read
When Heaven prays back
By the time you read this, All Saints Day will have come and gone. But, just to extend the feast a few more days, I want to share the...


Fr. Tadeusz Pacholczyk
Nov 9, 20173 min read
The Ethics of New Age Medicine
(Photos: Pexels) Patients who face serious illnesses are sometimes attracted to alternative medicines, also referred to as “holistic” or...


George Weigel
Nov 8, 20173 min read
“You have to decide.”
In writing Lessons in Hope: My Unexpected Life with St. John Paul II , one of my secondary intentions was to bury two urban legends: that...


Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
Nov 7, 20174 min read
Saintly inspiration for new beginnings
(Photo by James Baca/Denver Catholic Register) It’s not that often that bishops are able to announce the kind of good news I am about to...


George Weigel
Oct 31, 20173 min read
Murderers’ Row, Soviet-style
One hundred years ago, on November 7, 1917, Lenin and his Bolshevik Party expropriated the chaotic Russian people’s revolution that had...
George Weigel
Oct 25, 20173 min read
Which Reformation? What Reform?
Despite the formulation you’ll hear before and after the October 31 quincentenary of Luther’s 95 theses , there was no single...


Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
Oct 24, 20173 min read
Decoding social media and teen suicide
Just a few weeks ago I learned with great sadness that a middle school and high school student in Littleton took their lives within two...


Jared Staudt
Oct 23, 20175 min read
Debunking Reformation myths
In my last review, I looked at a number of new books on Martin Luther and genuine reformers in the Catholic tradition. In light of the...


Jared Staudt
Oct 18, 20174 min read
500 years later, who was Luther?
Hero, villain, heretic, saint, reformer, corrupter, man of integrity, bombastic glutton. Which image of Luther should we believe? Because...


George Weigel
Oct 18, 20173 min read
Whose bourgeois morality?
In the latest round of debate over Amoris Laetitia , Pope Francis’s apostolic exhortation on marriage and the family, a fervent defender...


George Weigel
Oct 10, 20173 min read
The <em>Catechism of the Catholic Church</em> at 25
John Paul II called the Extraordinary Synod of 1985 to assess what had gone right and what had gone wrong in two decades of implementing...


Mary Beth Bonacci
Oct 5, 20173 min read
In the wake of Vegas shooting, prayers still matter
LAS VEGAS, NV - OCTOBER 2: Mourners attend a candlelight vigil at the corner of Sahara Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard for the victims of...


George Weigel
Oct 4, 20173 min read
Fencing with bigots
…being an imaginary dialogue between a nominee to a Federal appeals court and members of the Committee on the Judiciary of what once...


Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
Oct 3, 20174 min read
New fronts in the fight for life
(Photo: Denver Catholic file photo) In the coming weeks, I will be joining Catholics and other pro-lifers in the 40 Days for Life...


George Weigel
Sep 27, 20173 min read
The transmigration of theological nonsense
During the Long Lent of 2002, Sister Betsy Conway, who lived in the Bostonian epicenter of the clerical sexual abuse crisis, spoke for...


Jared Staudt
Sep 26, 20173 min read
Become a champion of the rosary
On October 13th, Archbishop Aquila will consecrate of the Archdiocese of Denver to Our Lady of Fatima, at the Cathedral Basilica of the...
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