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WATCH: Archdiocesan Retreat, Week 2 | Why is there something instead of nothing?
For the second week of the Archdiocesan-Wide Retreat, watch Father Matthew Book’s homily from the First Sunday of Advent given at Light...

Archdiocese of Denver
Nov 29, 20211 min read


Created by love, made for mission
Beginning on the Feast of Christ the King and going through the season of Advent, the parishes of the archdiocese will be re-proclaiming the kerygma — the Good News of the Gospel — in what is intended to be an archdiocesan-wide retreat. Over the next four weeks, the Denver Catholic will publish guest reflections penned by priests of the archdiocese on the four main parts of the kerygma: Created, Captured, Rescued and Response .* We encourage you to revisit these pieces throu

Guest Contributor
Nov 25, 20216 min read


‘People must know’: “Christmas with The Chosen” beautifully humanizes the Nativity
The worldwide sensation about the life of Jesus, The Chosen, will bring its moving and powerful depiction of Biblical events to the big...

Aaron Lambert
Nov 25, 20212 min read


Synod 2021-23: Communion. Participation. Mission.
The Synod on Synodality is an assembling of the entire Church over the next two years, at the invitation of our Holy Father, to encounter...

Archdiocese of Denver
Nov 23, 20211 min read


In Search of a Story: An Advent pastoral note from Archbishop Aquila
Brothers and Sisters, in my last pastoral note, on Ash Wednesday, I wrote of “Our Apostolic Moment,” this unique “change of eras” in...

Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
Nov 23, 20211 min read


Simple lives lead to loving legacy of forming priests
(Denver Post archive photo) “The bride…chose a gown of misty white linen,” were the words the Denver Post used to describe the wedding...

Amy Bryer Brumley
Nov 22, 20214 min read


WATCH: Archdiocesan Retreat, Week 1 | Listening to the Voice of God
As part of the first week of the Archdiocesan-Wide Retreat, the Feast of Christ the King, watch Father Daniel Ciucci’s Sunday homily from...

Archdiocese of Denver
Nov 22, 20211 min read


The Archdiocese of Denver is getting a new look!
It’s no secret that as Catholics we have a distinct responsibility to participate in the Great Commission — to go and make disciples of...

Archdiocese of Denver
Nov 19, 20212 min read


Synod can accelerate our missionary move
When I first learned that Pope Francis wanted to convoke a Synod on Synodality, I wondered how that would fit with what God the Father...

Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
Nov 19, 20213 min read


Don’t waste this Year of St. Joseph; register for this Dec. 4 workshop now!
This “Year of St. Joseph” presents the faithful with a unique opportunity to draw deeper into union with and grow in devotion to the man...

Archdiocese of Denver
Nov 16, 20211 min read


‘I will walk with you’: New priest shares journey through cancer to his vocation
Father Peter Srsich, a cancer survivor, was ordained a priest at the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception on May 15, 2021....

Aaron Lambert
Nov 12, 20217 min read


Know the Eucharist, know your vocation
Photo by Grant Whitty on Unsplash The Eucharist is the body and blood, soul and divinity of Jesus Christ the Lord. Sadly, those words are...

Father Ryan O'Neill
Nov 4, 20214 min read


Fertile ground for the fruits of family
Forty years ago, St. John Paul II issued the apostolic exhortation Familiaris Consortio (The Fellowship of the Family), in which he...

Aaron Lambert
Sep 28, 202110 min read


Finding freedom and truth in history
(Photos: Adobe Stock) Leading schools is like being a helmsman of a ship journeying across the ocean. In charge of navigating, a helmsman...

Abriana Chilelli
Sep 21, 20215 min read


We are the Chosen
“Do you want to be healed?” These words are spoken by Jesus in the fifth chapter of the Gospel of John to a sick man lying by the pool at...

Aaron Lambert
Sep 21, 20216 min read


Opportunities of a New Apostolic Age
By Monsignor James P. Shea Msgr. James Shea is President of the University of Mary. Earlier this year, Archbishop Aquila wrote a pastoral letter entitled Our Apostolic Moment . In that letter, he noted that the Church is now living in a post-Christian age. He then explained what he meant: “The successful evangelization of the early Church during the first apostolic age flowered into a culture, referred to as ‘Christendom,’ that was itself built on Christian principles and id

Guest Contributor
Sep 20, 20216 min read


Adopting an Apostolic Mindset for 2021 and beyond
How was St. Maximilian Kolbe able to lead his fellow prisoners in hymns as he starved to death in Auschwitz? What moved St. John Paul II...

Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
Sep 17, 20214 min read


How Mother Teresa’s shoes reveal her spirit
Mother Teresa You can tell a lot about a person by their shoes. Different shoes exist for different purposes, and many times they reveal...

Aaron Lambert
Sep 3, 20213 min read


A moment of response to embark on mission
March for Life in Denver, Jan. 17, 2015. (Photo by Jeffrey Bruno/CC BY 2.0) The striking thing about the story of salvation history, the...

Tim Glemkowski
May 31, 20217 min read


Christ, the ballast of Christian community
(Photo: Adobe Stock) On the morning of August 10, 1628, the Swedish warship Vasa set sail from its harbor in the port of Stockholm. Built...

Father John Nepil
May 28, 20217 min read
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