In the bleak mid-winter Frosty wind made moan; Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow,...

The incorporation of Anglican hymnody into English-language Catholic worship is one of the great blessings of the past 50 years. And...

By Todd Smith We offer gifts to commemorate various milestones and personal achievements in the lives of others. Birthdays,...

(Photo: Adobe Stock) Father R. Michael Dollins is the Vicar for Clergy for the Archdiocese of Denver. When a priest is absent from a few...

On Dec. 6, the Church celebrated the patron saint of children, St. Nicholas (270 – 343 A.D.), bishop of Myra in Asia Minor (present day...

St. Therese of Lisieux detail, stained glass in St. Mary of the Assumption Church, Columbus, Ohio. (Photo: Nheyob / Wikimedia Commons CC...

“As we wait in joyful hope for the coming of our Savior, Jesus Christ.” These words from the liturgy perfectly summarize the spiritual...

Resist the twitterization of thought — give books for Christmas! The following titles will delight, instruct, edify (or all of the...

My late parents loved Cardinal George Pell, whom they knew for decades. So I found it a happy coincidence that, on November 12 (which...

Image by Lucía Ballester / CNA “Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that...

Fifty years ago, on November 30, 1969, the Catholic Church marked the First Sunday of Advent with the universal implementation of the...

By Sister Marion Weinzapfel, csj Just why would a group composed of Denver’s Auxiliary Bishop Jorge H. Rodriguez, a parish priest, a...

In his new book, Beauty: What It Is and Why It Matters (Sophia, 2019), John-Mark Miravalle relates how beauty combines the objective...

Thanksgiving, a uniquely American holiday, is quickly approaching. And while it is usually celebrated in non-religious ways, there is a...

November 9 marked the 30th anniversary of the peaceful breach of the Berlin Wall — the symbolic high point of the Revolution of 1989,...

During the 2001 Synod of Bishops, Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, who’d suffered through a lot of synodal speechifying and...

November is a month when the Church asks us to pray for the dead. After celebrating those in heaven on Nov. 1, we pray for all the...

This week we observe Vocations Awareness Week, a time set aside to promote awareness of the call to the priesthood, diaconate and...

I once knew a Congregationalist minister — Yale Divinity School graduate, decorated World War II chaplain, veteran campaigner for...

I grew up hearing stories about life in the coal mines. They were delivered in my grandfather’s heavy Italian accent, and often concluded...