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Denver Catholic Staff
Feb 16, 20217 min read
The Marvelous Goodness of God’s Creation
By Katie Prejean McGrady Wife, Mother, Author, Speaker Nearly every morning, on the way to school, my three-year-old daughter shouts from...


Aaron Lambert
Feb 11, 20217 min read
Want to know the secret to happiness? Ask regular churchgoers.
Denver, Colorado, October, 21, 2018 Young Adult Launch Mass/Social (photo by Andrew Wright) As the poster year for hardship that was 2020...


Guest Contributor
Feb 9, 20214 min read
Communion, Confession and Causing Scandal
By John Sehorn Assistant Professor of Theology at the Augustine Institute Catholics and non-Catholics alike are often confused or...
Daniel Campbell
Jan 21, 20214 min read
Five tips for reading the Word of God
Sunday, Jan. 24 marks “The Sunday of the Word of God,” instituted by Pope Francis last year and to be held every year on the third Sunday...


Rocio Madera
Dec 11, 20206 min read
Our Lady Of Guadalupe: The miracle that changed history
Before the arrival of the Spanish Conquistadors to the American continent, the residents of Tenochtitlan, modern-day Mexico City, had...


Catholic News Agency
Dec 8, 20206 min read
Pope Francis Proclaims Year of St. Joseph
Pope Francis announced a Year of St. Joseph Tuesday in honor of the 150th anniversary of the saint’s proclamation as patron of the...


Denver Catholic Staff
Dec 1, 20205 min read
To be a Christian is to be antiracist
Let’s talk about racism. A caveat to this article is that I am a white, straight, Christian male, and as such I have not had a lived...


Aaron Lambert
Nov 24, 20206 min read
“Samaritanus Bonus” and the hope of ‘remaining’
To those who care for the sick, the scene of the Cross provides a way of understanding that even when it seems that there is nothing more...


Scott Elmer, D. Min.
Nov 23, 20203 min read
God’s Greatest Commandment
Carl Bloch, “The Sermon on the Mount,” 1877 (Photo: Public Domain) When pressed by the Pharisees and scholars of the law to clarify the...


Denver Catholic Staff
Nov 23, 20203 min read
Our Lady of Kibeho’s message to the world
By Kateri Williams Most Catholics are familiar with the Marian apparition sites in France, Portugal and Mexico. Yet, many are unaware of...


Denver Catholic Staff
Nov 5, 20204 min read
From the desert, something new
By Father Greg Cleveland, O.M.V. G.K. Chesterton and several other literary figures were asked one evening what book they would prefer to...


Denver Catholic Staff
Nov 3, 20203 min read
Dispensations: An excuse to skip Mass?
By Anthony St. Louis-Sanchez During this time of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Christian faithful of the Archdiocese of Denver have received...


Rocio Madera
Nov 1, 20209 min read
(Almost) Saints: Six faithful Catholics on their way to sainthood
(Courtesy photos, Wikimedia Commons) All Saints’ Day marks the perfect occasion to remember all of those in heaven who intercede for us...


Denver Catholic Staff
Oct 31, 20205 min read
Blessed Michael McGivney: A light in the depth of the mines
In the late 1800s, it became common for many Catholic working men of different ages to dust off their dirty clothes after a hard...


Denver Catholic Staff
Oct 30, 20205 min read
We are a remnant people
In a letter to the world’s bishops dated August 15, the Solemnity of the Assumption of Mary, and approved for publication by Pope Francis...


Aaron Lambert
Oct 22, 20203 min read
‘Go and announce the Gospel of the Lord’: The Concluding Rites
DENVER, CO - FEBRUARY 22: Denver Archbishop Samuel Aquila gives the final blessing during a transitional deacon ordination for the...


Denver Catholic Staff
Oct 19, 20208 min read
Not simply ‘pro-birth’: How the Church cares for life at all stages
As Coloradoans prepare to vote to end late-term abortion in the state on Nov. 3, claims of the Catholic Church only being “pro-birth” and...


Denver Catholic Staff
Oct 16, 20205 min read
<em>Fratelli Tutti:<br></em>True fraternity is found in Christ
By Father Luis Granados In his new Encyclical, Pope Francis invites us to reflect on our universal fraternity. Its title – Fratelli Tutti...


Vladimir Mauricio-Perez
Oct 7, 20205 min read
Why is devotion to Mary important?
The Immaculate Conception by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, c. 1675. (Photo: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons) This question may seem...


Eric Kniffin
Sep 30, 20205 min read
Our first and most precious freedom
WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 23: Mother Loraine Marie Maguire, of the Little Sisters of the Poor, speaks to the media after aruments at the US...
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