We count our years from the birth of Christ, and Christmas begins the year of the Lord 2023. The secular practice of making a resolution...

Now, on Christmas Day, the nine months have been fulfilled. What began on the day of Annunciation is made visible to the world in the...

A scene that’s sadly all too familiar to the United States, especially to Colorado, but quite foreign to idyllic Connecticut… Today we...

Several weeks ago, I was invited on short notice to help “fill a table” at a benefit dinner. The theme of the evening was the Roaring...

The Year of Our Lord 2023 will likely witness Catholic dramas we cannot predict now; that is the way of Providence. What we can know with...

My state witnessed an unmitigated tragedy on Nov. 19 when a gunman opened fire in a gay club in Colorado Springs, killing five and...

Last month’s midterm elections made it painfully clear that many pro-life advocates and politicians are at sea in the post-Roe v. Wade...

Memo to both newly elected members of Congress like J.D. Vance and incumbents like Josh Hawley and Kevin McCarthy: It’s time to stop...

Catholics are not winning any popularity contests. Not only do we still face fallout from the abuse crisis, we also now regularly hear...

I’ll confess to some exasperation when, during the 2016 campaign, Republican vice-presidential nominee Mike Pence described himself as an...

This past Summer, I celebrated the tenth anniversary of my installation as Archbishop of Denver. In reflecting back, one theme that...

Thanks to the Franco-Prussian War, the First Vatican Council was suspended in October 1870 and never reconvened. Before its unanticipated...

In my last column, I wrote about the Eucharist as the food we need to spiritually survive and flourish in our secular culture. Jesus is...

(Photo: Jill Dimond / Unsplash) Well, I still haven’t mastered the art of writing columns AHEAD of major Catholic feasts and observances....

The Eucharist is a great work of cooperation. We supply the matter — the bread and wine, which is not simply natural material, but the...

On the morning of October 17, 1978, the newly-elected Pope John Paul II concelebrated Mass with the College of Cardinals and pledged that...

(Photo: Jackson David / Unsplash) Have you ever encountered a situation where your response was…well, weird? Where you could see that you...

No one who has worked in Washington for more than four decades, as I have, can possibly imagine Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., as one of...

We attended a prayer vigil, and prayed the rosary at night. We hoped for good news, while also preparing ourselves for the worst. And, in...

Within this multiyear Eucharistic Revival, we should not only foster devotion to the sacrament we recognize as the source and summit of...