Photo: CNA/EWTN By Lauretta Brown/National Catholic Register The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops voted overwhelmingly to approve a...

Does the impending cold have you feeling like you need a spiritual pick-me-up? Then look no further; the SJV Lay Division has you...

DENVER, CO - FEBRUARY 13: Denver Archbishop Samuel Aquila celebrates the Liturgy of the Eucharist during an ordination for deacons at the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception on February 13, 2021, in Denver, Colorado. (Photo by Daniel Petty/Denver Catholic) The archbishop of Denver criticized media coverage that frames the bishops’ discussion on the Eucharist as a debate over whether or not President Joe Biden can receive Holy Communion. The secular media, Archbish

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...

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...

This year, the solemnity of All Saint’s on November 1 will not be a holy day of obligation. Faithful in the United States are not...

(Photo: Thays Orrico / Unsplash) “Wait,  what ?!” I exclaimed, interrupting my youth minister midsentence, “I don’t get it.  Jesus  is in...

By Susan W. Murray Special to the Denver Catholic In the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic last year, 430 parishioners from St. Thomas More Church in Centennial joined either a virtual or an in-person “family bubble” group to participate in the Augustine Institute’s program The Search. Featuring well-known Catholic evangelist Chris Stefanick, The Search’s seven beautifully filmed episodes pose life’s critical questions:  “What do you seek?” “Who are you?” “Why a God?” “What’s o

Photo by Josh Applegate on Unsplash By Elizabeth Scalia Editor-at-Large for Word On Fire A recent conversation with a friend I know to be a faithful Catholic left me feeling disturbed. This fellow participates at Mass regularly, volunteers to help out both in his parish and within his community, and receives Holy Communion with reverence and hope. Unlike 70% of Catholics, he understands the teaching about transubstantiation and believes that the Eucharistic Host is the Body a

An icon of Blessed Maria Lorenza Longo is unveiled during her beatification in the Naples cathedral on Oct. 9. By Father Blaine Burkey, O.F.M.Cap. Archivist, St. Francis of Assisi Friary The Capuchin Poor Clare nuns of North Denver’s Our Lady of Light of Light Monastery and their benefactors and other friends are excited about the beatification of their 16th-century foundress, Mother Maria Lorenza Longo, in the Cathedral of Naples, Italy, on Oct. 9. Capuchin nuns and friars w

She was an Italian immigrant, a loving servant of those in need and the very first American saint, who also happened to walk the streets...

“It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick. For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.” “I assure you, tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God before you!” -Jesus “The great saints have gained Heaven by their works; myself, I wish to imitate the thieves, I wish to take it by a trick…” “I ought to be distressed at sleeping [for seven years] during my prayers and acts of thanksgiving. Well, I am not distress

Photo by Glenn Carstens-Peters on Unsplash By Anthony Gallegos Anthony is a Catechetical School Instructor and the Enrollment Coordinator for Catechetical School at the SJV Lay Division. Last week I ended the blog with the assertion that  if we do not know our history, if we have lost our memory so to speak, then we will inevitably place God in the role of slave master or tyrant . The reason for this, I assert, is that God wishes to recapitulate the story of salvation history

Christ on the Road to Emmaus, Jan Wildens, 1640s We often think of sermons today as the preaching of the doctrine, law, and living of the...

By Anthony Gallegos Anthony is a Catechetical School Instructor and the Enrollment Coordinator for Catechetical School at the SJV Lay Division. Last week I accused the world of having lost its memory.  This week I want to look at how the Spirit of the Lord, the Holy Spirit, preserves our memory and thereby gives us reason to hope for our future ( Catechism of the Catholic Church  paragraphs  2625 ,  2685 ,  2848 , and others). The mission of the Holy Spirit, in part, is to he

Madonna and Child with the Young St. John the Baptist, Sandro Botticelli, circa 1468 Ugliness is a spiritual problem. If beauty manifests the perfection and splendor of something, ugliness distorts it, corrupting what it is meant to be and blinding us to its true reality. A tree struck by lightning or blighted with disease is ugly. A building sculpted with cement, with little light or elegance, depresses us. The ugliness of most modern art disturbs us and does not uplift our

File photo by James Baca By Father Brian Kolodiejchuk, MC Father Brian Kolodiejchuk, MC was the postulator of the Cause of Beatification and Canonization of Mother Teresa of Calcutta and serves as director of the Mother Teresa Center in Rome. The Mother Teresa Center was founded in 2004 by the Missionaries of Charity religious family after her beatification. Its primary aim is to preserve the legacy of Mother Teresa by collecting and disseminating her written and spoken words

One of the famous episodes in the Old Testament is the wandering of Israel in the wilderness. The descendants of Abraham, whom God...

“I am with you always” (Mt 28:20). Quoting Jesus at the Ascension from the Gospel of Matthew, Pope Francis shared these words when he...

(Photo: Adobe Stock) For my last day of elementary school, my entire class went to Chuck E. Cheese for a pizza party. I remember saving...