The Second Vatican Council’s Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World (often referenced by its Latin title,  Gaudium et...

Where would we be without our mothers? We wouldn’t be! Father Gregory Cleveland, OMV, shares a beautiful quote...

I claim no expertise in climate science. I do claim a certain competence in detecting spin in the media; for I’m a card-carrying member...

Photo by Jake Blucker on Unsplash Last month was my Mom’s 89th birthday. And the three-month anniversary of her death. I have written...

Unfortunately forgotten in most U.S. Catholic circles today, Cardinal Albert Gregory Meyer, archbishop of Milwaukee from 1953 to 1958 and...

Joseph — son of David, husband of Mary, the humble builder, and adoptive father of the Messiah — stands as one of the greatest saints in...

During his 1977 rookie year with the Baltimore Orioles, future Hall of Famer Eddie Murray got a piece of advice from veteran Lee May: If...

On April 14, 2021 America Magazine , as part of its ongoing “Conversations” in America Media , published an article I wrote entitled:...

It seems like a paradox to say we can learn from St. Joseph, a man who does not have a single word attributed to him in the Scriptures,...

At my first Mass as a priest, and at Masses I have offered since, I have prayed quietly one of two prayers offered by priests around the...

The Paschal Triduum this year seemed like a return from exile: Holy Thursday’s Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper, in church; Good...

Ten years ago last month, the Synod of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church took a striking decision: it elected its youngest member,...

It’s Week 7 of Encounter the Risen Jesus! Visit archden.org/easter2021 to watch the reflection and follow along with the prayer guide...

“Are you saved?” This is something you might hear after the doorbell rings. “What does that even mean?” you might wonder, as you think of...

In the last edition of the Denver Catholic magazine, I began a three-part series on our story as Catholic Christians, the story of our...

Let me adapt to recent circumstances a thought-experiment theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar proposed decades ago: Imagine that a friend...

Image by K. Mitch Hodge on Unsplash First of all, I want to thank you all for the tremendous outpouring of support we have received in...

There is no need to belabor the awfulness of the year of lockdowns, shutdowns, and other downers that began in mid-March 2020. Among the...

On February 25, 2021, the U.S. House of Representatives could have addressed any number of pressing issues. The nation was in its 11th...

As the names Ambrose, Augustine, Athanasius, and John Chrysostom suggest, the middle centuries of the first millennium, the era of the...