Earlier this year, Pope Francis issued a motu proprio restricting Masses celebrated in the extraordinary form of the Roman Rite, more...

By Susan W. Murray Special to the Denver Catholic In the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic last year, 430 parishioners from St. Thomas More Church in Centennial joined either a virtual or an in-person “family bubble” group to participate in the Augustine Institute’s program The Search. Featuring well-known Catholic evangelist Chris Stefanick, The Search’s seven beautifully filmed episodes pose life’s critical questions:  “What do you seek?” “Who are you?” “Why a God?” “What’s o

In the last two months, three Catholic parishes in the Archdiocese of Denver have been targeted with extensive vandalism and property...

Anna (right) and her best friend, Beth, are students at St. Mary's Catholic School in Littleton. (Photo provided) Catholic schools exist...

A rendering of St. John Paul the Great High School, slated to open in the fall of 2022. Nearly 30 years have passed since Pope John Paul...

An icon of Blessed Maria Lorenza Longo is unveiled during her beatification in the Naples cathedral on Oct. 9. By Father Blaine Burkey, O.F.M.Cap. Archivist, St. Francis of Assisi Friary The Capuchin Poor Clare nuns of North Denver’s Our Lady of Light of Light Monastery and their benefactors and other friends are excited about the beatification of their 16th-century foundress, Mother Maria Lorenza Longo, in the Cathedral of Naples, Italy, on Oct. 9. Capuchin nuns and friars w

Vandalism on a door of the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Denver, Colo., Oct. 10, 2021. The Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in downtown Denver was spray-painted with anti-Catholic slogans on Sunday, the latest in a series of vandalism incidents against Catholic buildings in Colorado. Photos shared by local news reporters show slogans such as “Satan Lives Here,” “White Supremacists,” and “Child Rapists, LOL” written in bright red spray paint

Over 400 Catholics in Denver joined a pro-life Eucharistic procession around the state’s largest abortion clinic on Saturday, Oct. 2. The event, put on by the Archdiocese of Denver, sought to highlight the 40 Days for Life movement and the efficacy of spiritual remedies for the wounds caused by abortion. “The testimony I picked up from Hispanic participants was how peaceful and loving is the strength that Jesus brings to us when we process in a place of death,” said Maria Eli

Our Lady of Guadalupe. (Photo: Public Domain) Tomorrow, Oct. 7, the Our Lady of Guadalupe Missionary Image will be at the Cathedral...

She was an Italian immigrant, a loving servant of those in need and the very first American saint, who also happened to walk the streets...

A Catholic parish in Boulder, Colorado, with a memorial to aborted babies on its front lawn was desecrated with pro-abortion graffiti in the early hours of Sept. 29. Sacred Heart of Mary Parish was tagged with numerous spray-painted slogans including “Jesus [Loves] Abortion,” “Bans off our bodies,” “No Wire Hangers Ever,” and a symbol combining an “A” signifying “anarchy” and the traditional symbol for “female.” Mark Evevard, Youth Director and Social Communications Director

Male and female gender symbols on a black background with space for text What are students in public schools really being taught about...

Several valuable items belonging to a Denver Catholic parish, including the tabernacle and vessels used for Mass, were recovered late last week, after the church was robbed nearly a month ago. Consecrated hosts taken from the church were not found. The predominantly African-American parish of Curé d’Ars, located in north Denver, was broken into and robbed overnight Aug. 30-31. All the church’s vessels used for Mass were stolen from the vestry, which the thieves accessed by ki

Photo by Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash In 2019, the CDC reported that out of 45 states, the divorce rate was 2.7 for every 1,000...

Photo by Glenn Carstens-Peters on Unsplash By Anthony Gallegos Anthony is a Catechetical School Instructor and the Enrollment Coordinator for Catechetical School at the SJV Lay Division. Last week I ended the blog with the assertion that  if we do not know our history, if we have lost our memory so to speak, then we will inevitably place God in the role of slave master or tyrant . The reason for this, I assert, is that God wishes to recapitulate the story of salvation history

This October, Coloradans are invited to join Our Lady of Guadalupe as she stands against the culture of death that has become commonplace...

By Anthony Gallegos Anthony is a Catechetical School Instructor and the Enrollment Coordinator for Catechetical School at the SJV Lay Division. Last week I accused the world of having lost its memory.  This week I want to look at how the Spirit of the Lord, the Holy Spirit, preserves our memory and thereby gives us reason to hope for our future ( Catechism of the Catholic Church  paragraphs  2625 ,  2685 ,  2848 , and others). The mission of the Holy Spirit, in part, is to he

Our Lady of Fatima pilgrim statue - March 19, 2017, Denver, Colorado Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception Photo by Andrew...

(Photo provided) For more than 20 years, missionaries for the Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS) have served on college...

(Photos by Carol Nesbitt) Three Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Denver recently welcomed new principals as they kicked off the...