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Denver Catholic Staff
Oct 22, 20215 min read
Jesus may not ‘need’ our adoration, but he asked for it
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...
Jared Staudt
Jun 22, 20215 min read
Banned books: Pushing back against the new ideology
How would you know if you were being brainwashed? When something plainly false — contrary to common sense and right reason — is so...
Denver Catholic Staff
Oct 29, 20201 min read
Why Christians need to talk about religion & politics
There are two things you can’t talk about in public…and the consequences of our silence are real. Learn how this happened and why we need...
Jared Staudt
Oct 23, 20205 min read
For Love of Country: A Catholic Patriotism
Our country has been through a lot this last year, as we all know. As many people have reacted against the founding and history of the...
George Weigel
Oct 6, 20203 min read
The toxic waste of Roe v. Wade
Great Britain’s parliamentary democracy has no constitutional text, but rather a “constitution” composed of centuries of legal traditions...
George Weigel
Sep 29, 20203 min read
Truman’s terrible choice, 75 years ago
Three U.S. Navy officers look out at me from a small, black-and-white snapshot, taken in Sasebo, Japan, on September 26, 1945: three and...
Jared Staudt
Sep 29, 20203 min read
Faith: The most essential thing
What is truly essential? This has become a pressing question in our country, especially as churches have faced many government...
Aaron Lambert
Sep 25, 20203 min read
Lessons from the improbable Scalia-Ginsburg friendship
The death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in 2016 sent powerful shockwaves through American culture that reverberated deeply on...
Denver Catholic Staff
Apr 24, 20205 min read
Catholic moral wisdom in the time of COVID-19
Joshua Evans, Ph.D, is an Assistant Professor of Health Care Ethics at Regis University in Denver. In the recent weeks we have seen a...
Jared Staudt
Jan 24, 20203 min read
Why study Latin?
Ave Maria, Gloria in excelsis, Agnus Dei, Dominus Vobiscum, Sanctus, Tantum Ergo. These are just some of the Latin phrases that Catholics...
Denver Catholic Staff
Jan 16, 20204 min read
Opinion: There is cause for hope amid dire reports of clergy sexual abuse of minors
By Vincent Carroll This Dec. 13, 2019 opinion column was originally published by the Denver Post. When will it end, many Catholics must...
Jared Staudt
Dec 16, 20193 min read
Of St. Nick and Christmas trees
On Dec. 6, the Church celebrated the patron saint of children, St. Nicholas (270 – 343 A.D.), bishop of Myra in Asia Minor (present day...
Denver Catholic Staff
Dec 2, 20195 min read
Letter to the editor: The big picture on clerical sex abuse in the Church
The following is an unsolicited letter submitted by a reader. As a father of two and a cradle Roman Catholic, I am disgusted with the...
Denver Catholic Staff
Nov 21, 20194 min read
Open Wide Our Hearts: Lessons in racism from a pilgrimage to Montgomery
By Sister Marion Weinzapfel, csj Just why would a group composed of Denver’s Auxiliary Bishop Jorge H. Rodriguez, a parish priest, a...
Jared Staudt
Nov 21, 20193 min read
Monet and the Catholic approach to beauty
In his new book, Beauty: What It Is and Why It Matters (Sophia, 2019), John-Mark Miravalle relates how beauty combines the objective...
Jared Staudt
Nov 11, 20193 min read
A time to reflect on death
November is a month when the Church asks us to pray for the dead. After celebrating those in heaven on Nov. 1, we pray for all the...
Aaron Lambert
Oct 11, 20193 min read
The shock of forgiveness
Every so often, the media will pick up a story that serves as a potent reminder of what it means to be a Christian. That’s because living...
Jared Staudt
Oct 9, 20193 min read
The renewal of Catholic higher education
The United States has well over 200 Catholic colleges and universities. Only a fraction of them, however, conform to St. John Paul’s...
Jared Staudt
Aug 27, 20194 min read
A mission of hope: Pray for priests
Ecclesia semper reformanda: The Church must always be reformed. These words have hit home recently in the midst of a crisis of confidence...
Jared Staudt
Aug 9, 20193 min read
Abiding in the truth of Christ
“And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth; we have beheld his glory” (John 1:14). John describes Jesus as...
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