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Letter: The ‘Ol’ Gully Ranch Homestead,’ Mother Cabrini, and the miracle at Toll Gate Creek
(Photo provided) Thomas and Temperance Gully, along with their four children, left their beloved Tipperary, Ireland, back in 1862, bound...

Denver Catholic Staff
Mar 10, 20218 min read


A letter to the faithful from the Colorado bishops on the Johnson & Johnson vaccine
(Photo: Unsplash) The Colorado Bishops affirm that Catholics should consider how a vaccine was created and tested before receiving it. In...

Archdiocese of Denver
Mar 9, 20214 min read


Meet the archdiocese’s eight new transitional deacons, ordained Feb. 13
DENVER, CO - FEBRUARY 13: Deacon ordination at Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception on February 13, 2021, in Denver, Colorado....

Denver Catholic Staff
Mar 8, 202110 min read


New archdiocesan ministry offers hope and healing for adult children of divorce
Photo by Karl JK Hedin on Unsplash One of the biggest concerns that couples have when going through divorce is the impact that it will...

Rocio Madera
Mar 4, 20214 min read


Notre Dame parish brings Liturgy of the Hours into the home with Church at Home program
Last spring, while everybody was stuck at home during the height of the pandemic, Notre Dame Parish in Denver saw an opportunity for...

Aaron Lambert
Mar 2, 20213 min read


Q&A: Father Timothy Gallagher’s new book brings Ignatian wisdom into marriages
Detail from the cover of Discernment of Spirits in Marriage: Ignatian Wisdom for Husbands and Wives . (Courtesy photo) For many years,...

Rocio Madera
Feb 26, 20217 min read


St. Cajetan youth and volunteers hold vaccine clinic for elderly
(Photo provided) Despite the obstacles they face, thousands of elderly citizens from the Hispanic community gathered at St. Cajetan...

Rocio Madera
Feb 25, 20213 min read


Remembering Father Leo Heinrichs, Denver’s little-known martyr who could one day be a saint
Father Leo Heinrichs woke up the morning of Feb. 23, 1908, and prepared for the 6 a.m. Mass at St. Elizabeth of Hungary Parish in Denver....

Aaron Lambert
Feb 23, 20214 min read


‘He has chosen you at this time in history,’ Archbishop Aquila tells eight new transitional deacons
DENVER, CO - FEBRUARY 13: Deacon ordination at Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception on February 13, 2021, in Denver, Colorado....

Aaron Lambert
Feb 19, 20214 min read


Longtime Denver family business owner Ed Routzon is inspired by Mercy
(Photo provided) Denverites have been walking all over Ed Routzon’s family name for more than half a century, but he doesn’t mind....

Amy Bryer Brumley
Feb 19, 20212 min read


We live in a fallen world. Now what?
Once, an editor of The Times newspaper asked G.K. Chesterton, “What is wrong with the world?” Chesterton, the great master of common sense and wit that he was, responded: “Dear Sir: I am. Yours, G.K. Chesterton.” “I am.” There is starting honesty and humility in recognizing that the world’s problems rest in the heart, and not ultimately in any of the great social, political, or economic forces on the outside. It is the problem within the heart that causes those exterior trou

Jared Staudt
Feb 18, 20215 min read


This Lent, choose to be intentional about what you do
Lent is here…again. Though it seems like Lent was just yesterday (or never really went away at all), here we are, 40 days before Easter...

Aaron Lambert
Feb 17, 20214 min read


Pray a 54-day Rosary novena for mission renewal beginning Ash Wednesday
Beginning today, join Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila and the entire archdiocese in praying a 54-day Rosary novena for a renewal of mission...

Archdiocese of Denver
Feb 17, 20211 min read


Watch Archbishop Aquila discuss <em>The Search</em> live with Chris Stefanick this Thursday, Feb. 18
In a Lenten collaboration with Real Life Catholic, Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila will appear live on Chris Stefanick’s’ The Life You Were...

Archdiocese of Denver
Feb 16, 20211 min read


Montessori meets deep faith formation in Catechesis of the Good Shepherd
(Photo: Denver Catholic Staff) Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me,” and a religious education method used in a growing...

Aaron Lambert
Feb 15, 20214 min read


Calling all middle school superheroes: Mountain Madness needs YOU!
Calling all middle school superheroes: Mountain Madness needs your superpowers! The Archdiocese of Denver is inviting all middle school...

Rocio Madera
Feb 8, 20212 min read


Honoring our Catholic educators for their years of service
(Photo provided) “The Church needs men and women who are intent on teaching by word and example – intent on helping to permeate the whole...

Archdiocese of Denver
Feb 4, 20214 min read


‘Education is about becoming more human’
Surprised African-American girl reading magic book on dark background By Abriana Chilelli Associate Superintendent of Academic Renewal When teaching high school-level Humanities at public schools here in Colorado, I hung a sign on the wall of my classroom. I made the sign after reading an interview with Dr. Joseph Almeida, a professor at Franciscan University, during my days there as a student, long before I became a teacher. The sign quoted Dr. Almeida: “There’s a statemen

Guest Contributor
Feb 4, 20214 min read


Making the switch: Families find blessings in shifting from public to Catholic schools
The Lord, indeed, works in mysterious and wonderful ways – and this year, several families, having moved their children from public to...

Carol Nesbitt
Feb 3, 20215 min read


‘We’re OPEN!’ Denver’s Catholic schools mark a successful, ‘herculean’ semester of in-pe
By Carol Nesbitt and Abriana Chilelli While most school districts in Colorado were closed to in-person learning this fall, the Catholic...

Carol Nesbitt
Feb 2, 20214 min read
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