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Which Reformation? What Reform?
Despite the formulation you’ll hear before and after the October 31 quincentenary of Luther’s 95 theses , there was no single...

George Weigel
Oct 25, 20173 min read


Decoding social media and teen suicide
Just a few weeks ago I learned with great sadness that a middle school and high school student in Littleton took their lives within two...

Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
Oct 24, 20173 min read


Debunking Reformation myths
In my last review, I looked at a number of new books on Martin Luther and genuine reformers in the Catholic tradition. In light of the...

Jared Staudt
Oct 23, 20175 min read


500 years later, who was Luther?
HIS329428 Martin Luther in clerical attire, 1529 (oil on panel) by Cranach, Lucas (1472-1553) (studio of); 51.5x36.3 cm; Deutsches...

Jared Staudt
Oct 18, 20174 min read


Whose bourgeois morality?
In the latest round of debate over Amoris Laetitia , Pope Francis’s apostolic exhortation on marriage and the family, a fervent defender...

George Weigel
Oct 18, 20173 min read


The <em>Catechism of the Catholic Church</em> at 25
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...

George Weigel
Oct 10, 20173 min read


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

Mary Beth Bonacci
Oct 5, 20173 min read


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

George Weigel
Oct 4, 20173 min read


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

Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
Oct 3, 20174 min read


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

George Weigel
Sep 27, 20173 min read


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

Jared Staudt
Sep 26, 20173 min read


A memoir I never expected to write
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...

George Weigel
Sep 20, 20173 min read


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

Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
Sep 20, 20173 min read


Speaker Ryan invites a social doctrine conversation
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....

George Weigel
Sep 12, 20173 min read


Where have all the adults gone?
Our standards have been lowered when it comes to intelligent discourse from our politicians. Therefore, Nebraska’s Senator Ben Sasse’s...

Jared Staudt
Sep 7, 20173 min read


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

Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
Sep 6, 20173 min read


Superheroes? Stardust? Or vessels of the Incarnation?
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,...

George Weigel
Sep 6, 20173 min read


Archbishop to DREAMERS: ‘You are a tremendous gift!’
(Photo by Daniel Petty/Denver Catholic) To the DREAMERS of Colorado, I have been following closely the status of the Deferred Action for...

Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
Sep 5, 20172 min read


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

George Weigel
Aug 30, 20173 min read


Bearing fruit by living Your charism
In 2015, Sherry Weddell’s Forming Intentional Disciples became the Catholic book to read. Its simple but powerful message focused...

Jared Staudt
Aug 30, 20173 min read
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