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The three-hour October 22 meeting offered the archbishop the opportunity to raise concerns with national leaders. The prayer was a chance to ask God’s help. The mixed response that followed has weighed heavily on him. Denver Archbishop James Golka prays over President Trump in the Oval Office, alongside other brother bishops. (Photo courtesy of the White House) Months ago, Denver Archbishop James Golka received a special invitation: to meet alongside other Catholic bishops w

(Video by Margo Martin, Special Assistant to the President and Communications Advisor, on X) Denver Archbishop James Golka and other brother bishops from around the United States met with President Donald J. Trump in the Oval Office of the White House on Thursday, October 22. During the meeting, the bishops spoke with President Trump about religious freedom, school choice, family tax credits, religious visas and life, according to White House Faith Director Jenny Korn. At the

Jimmy Lai in 2019. (Photo: Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons) At his May summit in Beijing, President Trump made an effort to convince Chinese leader Xi Jinping to release Jimmy Lai from his imprisonment in Hong Kong. Jimmy, whom I am honored to call a friend, is a 78-year-old diabetic who has been in solitary confinement some seven hundred days longer than the United States was engaged in World War II, and is now serving a twenty-year sentence for threatening Chinese natio

President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, a Catholic, have taken issue with the pope’s Gospel teaching on peace. Vice President of the United States J. D. Vance speaking with attendees at the 2025 AmericaFest at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona. (Photo by Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons) The U.S. bishops’ chair for doctrine issued a clarification on April 15 reaffirming that Catholic just war theory sets strict moral limits on the

Archbishop James R. Golka preaches during his March 25 Installation Mass. (Photo by Rachel Moore/Denver Catholic) In response to a Sunday evening social media post by President Donald J. Trump criticizing Pope Leo XIV, Denver Archbishop James R. Golka has joined his brother bishops in responding. His brief statement is printed in full below. "I join my brother bishops in stating clearly that the recent remarks directed at Pope Leo by President Trump are not acceptable. Such l

Little Sisters of the Poor oral argument, Dec. 8 Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila of Denver called the new exemptions announced by the Trump...

IZMIR, TURKEY - APRIL 28: A Syrian refugee woman waits for water to boil outside her home at a tent camp on the outskirts of Izmir on...