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Aaron Lambert
Dec 11, 20173 min read
Children in Mass are gifts, not distractions
DENVER, CO - OCTOBER 13: The Consecration of the Archdiocese of Denver to the Immaculate Heart of Mary at the Cathedral Basilica of the...


Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
Dec 5, 20174 min read
Ending harassment requires more than laws
The ongoing wave of disclosures of sexual harassment across our country shows that while policies and laws are helpful, they do not solve...


Larry Smith
Nov 14, 20173 min read
What barn are you raising?
(Photo: Pexels) A community comes together to help a neighbor build a barn. That’s a rural tradition that still happens today in some...


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...


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...


Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
Sep 20, 20173 min read
Making Catholic education affordable
A student at Annunciation Catholic School in Denver. (Photo: Denver Catholic file photo) “Education,” St. John Bosco often said, “is the...


Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
Sep 6, 20173 min read
Hearts ready to respond
During the entire liturgical year, there are only two saints whose birth the Church celebrates: John the Baptist and the Blessed Virgin...


Denver Catholic Staff
Aug 24, 20175 min read
7 ways to rise above the Hunger Games that is social media
The scenes at the Cornucopia in The Hunger Games , both in the books and films, are some of most intensely violent parts of the story,...


Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
Aug 17, 20173 min read
Healing hatred and anger after Charlottesville
The confrontation in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the nationwide reaction to it are clear signs of the tensions simmering just below...


Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
Aug 10, 20173 min read
Lessons from Charlie Gard
After living one week short of a year, Baby Charlie Gard passed on to eternal life on July 28th. His brief life and the court battle over...


Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
Jul 6, 20173 min read
The Supreme Court’s welcome surprise
Right in the middle of the Church’s celebration of the annual Fortnight for Freedom, good news came down from the U.S. Supreme Court in a...


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...


Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
Jun 8, 20174 min read
The Eucharist: Center of the Universe
Perpetual Adoration Chapel at St. Catherine of Siena Parish in Denver. (Photo: Denver Catholic file photo) This week I have been thinking...


Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
May 24, 20174 min read
Your life in God’s hands
(Photo: Pixabay) Recently, Pope Francis met with a contingent of people who suffer from Huntington’s Disease, a rare genetic illness that...
Scott Elmer, D. Min.
May 16, 20173 min read
Greg Maddux, Jesus Christ and the Sword of the Spirit
In the Church’s eternal wisdom, the feasts of Easter and Pentecost fall around the start of baseball season. Some might be tempted to...


Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
May 11, 20173 min read
Priceless priestly gifts
The central task of the priest is “to bring God to men and women,” Pope Benedict XVI once told the priests of Rome. Priests are...


Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
Apr 20, 20175 min read
Scouting in the balance
I was dismayed to learn this past January that the Boy Scouts of America decided to end their practice of more than 100 years that...


Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
Apr 6, 20174 min read
What is truth?
As we approach Holy Week, I am returning to a meditation I have been making in my heart on Jesus’ statement to Pilate, “I came into the...


Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
Mar 22, 20173 min read
Lenten lessons from the silent saint
He was a man of silence and action. As we continue to walk through Lent, St. Joseph, the man who is revered as patron of the universal...


Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
Mar 6, 20173 min read
Healing the Reformation’s wounds
Luther at the Diet of Worms by Anton von Werner, c. 1877. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain) Five hundred years have passed since...
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