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Denver Catholic Staff
Dec 23, 20196 min read
The Heroes Among Us
(Photo: Denver Catholic file photo) Throughout this year and in years past, the Denver Catholic publishes stories about those among us...


Denver Catholic Staff
Oct 31, 20191 min read
November is National Black Catholic History Month
What do Simone Biles, Donna Brazile, and Kobe Bryant all have in common? Through their successes, trials and tribulations, they have...
Moira Cullings
Oct 3, 20192 min read
Saints come alive at ‘Night at the Cemetery’
“Night at the Cemetery” will take place at Mount Olivet in Wheat Ridge on Oct. 25, 2019 from 7-9 p.m., for middle and high school school...


Rocio Madera
Oct 1, 20194 min read
New Director of Black Catholic Ministry hopes to continue outreach to African-American community
DENVER, CO - SEPTEMBER 8: The 11th Annual St. Josephine Bakhita and St. Katharine Drexel Recognition Award Dinner at Proof Nite Club on...


Moira Cullings
Jun 6, 20192 min read
‘Julia’s canoe’ fills with prayer intentions
(Photo: David M Chambers / Unsplash) Julia Greeley’s selfless life has captured the attention of Catholics around the world. Many believe...


Moira Cullings
Jun 3, 20192 min read
Annunciation fifth graders write, illustrate children’s book about Julia Greeley
Photo by Moira Cullings When members of the Julia Greeley Guild visited the fifth-grade class at Annunciation Catholic School in Denver,...
Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
Dec 19, 20183 min read
Embrace the ‘good news of great joy’
“Do not be afraid … I am bringing you good news of great joy for all the people: to you is born this day in the city of David a Savior,...
Denver Catholic Staff
Nov 20, 20182 min read
Some fun facts about Black Catholic History Month
The Church has designated November as Black Catholic History Month since 1990 when the National Black Clergy Caucus of the United States...
Moira Cullings
Aug 15, 20182 min read
Julia Greeley’s cause off to the Vatican
On August 10, Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila presided over the solemn closing session of the diocesan inquiry of the cause of beatification...


Mark Haas
Jun 14, 20184 min read
Denver firefighter inspired by Julia Greeley’s example
Denver, CO: Derrick Johnson, a firefighter for the Denver Fire Department, became fascinated with the story of Julia Greeley and is now a...


Moira Cullings
Jun 13, 20182 min read
Archdiocese honors Julia Greeley on 100th anniversary of her death
DENVER, CO - JUNE 7: People pray before the tomb of Servant of God Julia Greeley before the 100th Anniversary Mass of her death at the...


Aaron Lambert
May 9, 20183 min read
June 7 marks 100 years since Julia Greeley’s death
“Is she a saint?” File photo So read the headline on the cover of the April 15, 1998 issue of the Denver Catholic Register, coupled with...


Denver Catholic Staff
Feb 7, 20183 min read
How to live Lent, according to the Catechism
(Photo: Pexels) If there’s one thing we think we know about Lent, it’s that we’re supposed to “give something up.” We’re not sure why,...


Denver Catholic Staff
Jan 2, 20185 min read
Year in review
When the year 2017 is looked back on as a chapter in the rich history of the Archdiocese of Denver, it will likely be remembered as a...


Aaron Lambert
Oct 31, 20172 min read
Saints, holy figures come back to life at first ‘Night in the Cemetery’
October 25, 2017, Colorado, Youth groups tour Mt Olivet cemetery during Saint in the Cemetery - a two hour tour through the sacred...


Aaron Lambert
Jun 28, 20174 min read
Our Lady of Fatima is iconographer’s 100th
Vivian Imbruglia, the iconographer who was commissioned to write the icon of Servant of God Julia Greeley for the Archdiocese of Denver,...


Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
Jun 21, 20173 min read
Julia Greeley: Woman of virtue
Hundreds of people were drawn to the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception on June 7 for the transfer of Julia Greeley’s mortal...


Aaron Lambert
Jun 9, 20174 min read
Former slave Julia Greeley first to be buried at Denver’s Cathedral
DENVER, CO - JUNE 7: Denver Auxiliary Bishop Jorge Rodriguez (L) blesses the mortal remains of Servant of God Julia Greeley during the...


Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
Dec 23, 20164 min read
How we answered Christ’s knock in 2016
“The Word who found a dwelling in Mary’s womb comes to knock on the heart of every person” at Christmas, Pope St. John Paul II said....
Aaron Lambert
Dec 20, 20163 min read
“Simple, humble” Julia Greeley placed on path to sainthood
An ex-slave from Hannibal, Missouri, who found her way to Denver and the Catholic Church in the late 1800s, is now the first person the...
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