John Paul II called the Extraordinary Synod of 1985 to assess what had gone right and what had gone wrong in two decades of implementing...

LAS VEGAS, NV - OCTOBER 2: Mourners attend a candlelight vigil at the corner of Sahara Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard for the victims of...

…being an imaginary dialogue between a nominee to a Federal appeals court and members of the Committee on the Judiciary of what once...

(Photo: Denver Catholic file photo) In the coming weeks, I will be joining Catholics and other pro-lifers in the 40 Days for Life...

During the Long Lent of 2002, Sister Betsy Conway, who lived in the Bostonian epicenter of the clerical sexual abuse crisis, spoke for...

On October 13th, Archbishop Aquila will consecrate of the Archdiocese of Denver to Our Lady of Fatima, at the Cathedral Basilica of the...

When the second volume of my John Paul II biography, The End and the Beginning , was published in 2010, I thought I was finished with...

A student at Annunciation Catholic School in Denver. (Photo: Denver Catholic file photo) “Education,” St. John Bosco often said, “is the...

CNN is not the customary locale-of-choice for a catechesis on Catholic social doctrine. But that’s what Paul Ryan, Speaker of the U.S....

Our standards have been lowered when it comes to intelligent discourse from our politicians. Therefore, Nebraska’s Senator Ben Sasse’s...

During the entire liturgical year, there are only two saints whose birth the Church celebrates: John the Baptist and the Blessed Virgin...

When I was first introduced to the fascinations of the DNA double-helix in a biology class at Baltimore’s St. Paul Latin High School,...

(Photo by Daniel Petty/Denver Catholic) To the DREAMERS of Colorado, I have been following closely the status of the Deferred Action for...

Some biblical scholars consider the Book of Deuteronomy to be a collection of sermons: catechetical homilies on the great theme of the...

In 2015, Sherry Weddell’s Forming Intentional Disciples became the Catholic book to read. Its simple but powerful message focused...

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,...

Those who persist in denying that the Church is engaged in a culture war, the combatants in which are aptly called the “culture of life”...

The confrontation in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the nationwide reaction to it are clear signs of the tensions simmering just below...

Detroit hasn’t gotten a lot of good press in recent decades as it’s struggled to cope with the myriad problems of rustbelt American...

St. Frances Xavier Cabrini (photo: Wikimedia Commons) There’s much current debate about “The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians...