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Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
Sep 24, 20133 min read
After the floods, stand firm on faith
As towns along the Front Range were being hit with flash floods on Sept. 12 and 13, a huge mudslide careened down Mount Meeker, just...
Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
Sep 17, 20133 min read
The unborn need our prayer and fasting
All of us are aware of the devastating floods that have occurred in Colorado. The loss of life, homes and property have impacted many of...
George Weigel
Sep 3, 20133 min read
A chapel of consequence
KRACOW—The chapel in the archbishop’s residence in Kracow—which everyone calls by its street name, “Franciszkanska 3”—has witnessed a lot...
Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
Aug 27, 20133 min read
Remember heaven as kids go back to school
Across the archdiocese, parents have begun sending their children off to school. This is a time of excitement and challenge, a time when...
Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
Aug 13, 20133 min read
20 years later, John Paul II’s challenge remains
“I am confident that you have grasped the scale of the challenge that lies before you, and that you will have the wisdom and courage to...
George Weigel
Jul 16, 20133 min read
A new approach to modern Catholic history
Criticism comes with the territory when you write books, and the best for which any author can hope is intelligent criticism that engages...
Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
Jul 16, 20133 min read
Pope Francis’ great lesson in humility and wisdom
One year ago, I was installed as the eighth bishop of Denver. It still feels like yesterday to me. And when I was ordained a priest in...
Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
Jul 2, 20133 min read
Do not be discouraged, God is at work
I grew up in Southern California. On hot days, my imagination turns to the beach—to cooling off with a dip in the ocean and perhaps even...
Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
Jun 18, 20132 min read
America needs our prayers and our sacrifice
The people of Israel faced a terrible drought nearly 3,000 years ago. It began when Ahab, the Israelite king, abandoned the true God, and...
George Weigel
Jun 4, 20133 min read
‘Pacem in Terris’ at 50
In the course of preparing “The End and the Beginning,” the second volume of my biography of John Paul II, I was struck by a historical...


Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
Jun 4, 20133 min read
Public school’s sex ed curriculum undermines parents, dignity of sexuality
(Denver Catholic file photo) “Parents are parents for eternal life,” reflected Father John Hardon, S.J., “God gives them children in this...
Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
May 21, 20134 min read
The adventure and privilege of the priesthood
Almost 37 years ago, I was ordained a priest of Jesus Christ in Denver’s Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception. I promised...
Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
May 14, 20132 min read
Church’s works proclaim Christ’s love in the world
“Dear brothers and sisters,” Pope Francis told Catholics in Rome last week. “The Church loves you! Be an active presence in the...
Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
May 7, 20133 min read
Proclaim the truth about traditional marriage
Imagine being among the apostles on the day the Lord ascended to heaven: Jesus Christ, who had begun as a friend, a teacher, and a...
Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
Apr 30, 20133 min read
The renewing, exciting graces of marital self-giving love
Catholic marriage is to be joy-filled. It should be a partnered foray into radical discipleship, in which a man and a woman love one...
Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
Apr 23, 20133 min read
Marriage as a cornerstone of culture and Christian life
“The stone which the builders rejected,” says Psalm 118, “has become the cornerstone.” The cornerstone is Jesus Christ. He who was...
George Weigel
Apr 16, 20133 min read
A reformed (and re-formed) College of Cardinals
The recent papal interregnum and conclave underscored the importance of re-forming, and reforming, the College of Cardinals. As...
Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
Apr 9, 20133 min read
The divine creation and gifts of marriage
Marriage, most fundamentally, is gift. Or, perhaps more clearly, marriage is a series of gifts, connected and intertwined with one...
Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
Apr 2, 20132 min read
Mercy changes everything
In the 1930s, Jesus Christ appeared to Sister Faustina Kowalska, a young Polish nun from Krakow. He told her that: “my mercy works in all...
Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
Mar 26, 20133 min read
The great feast of Easter, the source of light
Jesus Christ, the Son of God, entered the world “full of grace and truth,” born to reveal the Father’s love for the world, yet born to...
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