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For 25 years, Steubenville of the Rockies has impacted teenagers and volunteers alike

(Photo provided) The joy of over 1,700 teens at the Steubenville of the Rockies Conference became palpable once more as the event...

Dominican Sister of Hope Patricia Catlett Celebrates her 70th Jubilee Anniversary

Sister Patricia Catlett (left) and her sister, actor Mary Jo Catlett. (Photo provided) This year, 2022, marks Sister Patricia Catlett’s...

Denver Catholic Schools welcome 10 new school leaders

(Photo by Denver Catholic Staff) The 2022-2023 school year is off to a great start! Our 9,000 students, teachers and staff members are...

Exhumed Sisters of Loretto lovingly laid to rest at Mount Olivet

"We can calculate countless hours of prayer for the salvation of the world, countless sacrifices, persevering in their vocation even in difficult times," said Bishop Rodriguez. (Photo by André Escaleira, Jr.) “Operation Sacred Rescue” has come to a fitting close with the reinterment of 62 Sisters of Loretto at Mount Olivet Catholic Cemetery in Wheat Ridge. “The best part of the operation is when you bring people home to reunite with their family members” said Gary Schaff, Executive Director...

Living our Catholic faith in public with joy

People pray during the quarterly Prayer in the Square event on the west steps of the Colorado State Capitol Building on November 5, 2016,...

Denver bids its final farewell to Father Xavier Espinoza

(Photo provided) Father Xavier Espinoza was born February 16, 1941 in Zapotlanejo, Jalisco, Mexico and passed away on July 18, 2022 at 81...

Archbishop Aquila blesses Denver’s newest Catholic high school

St. John Paul the Great prinicipal Erin Huele introduces the faculty of thew new high school during a blessing ceremony Aug. 15. (Photo...

Military veterans to be honored at annual In God We Trust Mass

In God We Trust Military Veterans Mass at the Colorado Freedom Memorial on September 18, 2021, in Aurora, Colorado. (Photo by Daniel...

Co-workers in the vineyard: Catholic co-working space comes to Denver

(Photo by André Escaleira, Jr.) What if Catholics didn’t have to choose between God and mammon? This tongue-in-cheek question serves as the inspiration behind a Catholic co-working space, coming soon to the Knights of Columbus Hall in downtown Denver. The space, currently being renovated, would be one of few such collectives in the nation; organizers said that the only other they could find was in Cleveland, Ohio. The idea is a return to an apostolic view of work. “The apostles, like Paul,...

Local carpenters lovingly hand-built Loretto Sisters’ new caskets

Photo provided Operation ‘Sacred Rescue,’ as it has been called, continues in earnest at Mount Olivet Catholic Cemetery in Wheat Ridge. Just over a month ago, more than 60 Sisters of Loretto were carefully, reverently and diligently exhumed from their resting places on the Loretto Heights campus in south Denver with the intention of reuniting them with other Sisters of Loretto buried at Mount Olivet. Since then, the Neitenbach family has been working hard to provide caskets for each sister...

Q&A: Get to know the archdiocese’s new Chief Mission Officer!

The Archdiocese of Denver recently named Dr. Scott Elmer as its very first Chief Mission Officer. Elmer has worked for the archdiocese...

Denver Catholic and El Pueblo Católico staff honored with 25 Catholic Press Awards for 2021

(Photo: Denver Catholic Staff) The Catholic Media Association recently announced their 2021 Catholic Press Award recipients, and with...