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Aaron Lambert
Mar 27, 20205 min read
In this global pandemic, be charitable and stay home
There can no longer be any doubt about it — with COVID-19, we are living through a historic pandemic, one that requires swift action and...
Denver Catholic Staff
Mar 26, 20205 min read
Mass cancellations: Are we lacking in faith?
As dioceses across the world have decided to cancel Mass due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, many faithful have asked various...
Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
Mar 25, 20204 min read
The Gospel of Life: Medicine for our times
It has been 25 years since St. John Paul II released his landmark encyclical Evangelium Vitae – The Gospel of Life – which made a...
Denver Catholic Staff
Mar 25, 20204 min read
What are the preeminent life issues?
By Father Luis Granados, dcjm As we celebrate the 25th anniversary of Evangelium Vitae, an old question reappears in our conversations:...
Denver Catholic Staff
Mar 25, 20203 min read
The Gospel of God’s love for man and the dignity of the human person
By Father Angel Perez-Lopez As we celebrate the anniversary of St. John Paul II’s encyclical Evangelium Vitae (EV), we must acknowledge...
George Weigel
Mar 25, 20203 min read
“Wittenberg” in synodal slow motion
As Yale’s Carlos Eire masterfully demonstrated in Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450-1650 , there was no one “Protestant...
George Weigel
Mar 17, 20203 min read
Churchmanship
“Churchmanship” is not a term in vogue today, and given the alleged inclusivity-deficit of such words it’s unlikely to make a comeback....
Denver Catholic Staff
Mar 16, 20202 min read
Deacon Lanciotti: Data shows no Masses could have positive effect in spread of COVID-19
Deacon Rob Lanciotti is a permanent deacon at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in Fort Collins and holds a doctoral degree in Microbiology. He was...
Denver Catholic Staff
Mar 13, 20204 min read
As COVID-19 spreads, will we be more like the saints?
How would the saints act if they were in our position? The coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak has certainly caused various reactions – some...
Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
Mar 13, 20203 min read
Coronavirus (COVID-19) should cause reflection, not panic
Lent is a time during which Catholics return to the basic practices of the faith – prayer, fasting and almsgiving – to promote deeper...
George Weigel
Mar 10, 20203 min read
Doubling down on a bad deal
Perseverance on a difficult but noble path is a virtue. Stubbornness when confronted by irrefutable evidence of a grave mistake is a...
George Weigel
Mar 3, 20203 min read
The clerisy of the concrete-and-glass box freaks out
Several years back, the estimable Father Paul Scalia observed, of some cultural idiocy or other, “Who knew the end of civilization would...
George Weigel
Feb 26, 20203 min read
Aventine meditations
Rome’s Aventine Hill has seen a lot. Legend has it that a dispute over the hill led to the fratricidal conflict between the city’s...
Jared Staudt
Feb 20, 20203 min read
Discover the wonders of Catholic France on the Vine & Cloister pilgrimage
Tucked away in the province of Burgundy, wine, Romanesque architecture, and the monastic life all reached their highpoint in the Middle...
Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
Feb 19, 20203 min read
Lenten inspiration from the ‘threshold of the apostles’
We are about to begin the first Lent of a new decade. And there is nothing like being in Rome for to prepare one for this period of...
George Weigel
Feb 19, 20203 min read
Beyond Amazonia
The post-synodal apostolic exhortation Querida Amazonia [Dear Amazonia] did not accept or endorse the 2019 Amazonian synod’s proposal...
George Weigel
Feb 11, 20203 min read
Flannery O’Connor and friends, revisited
Her fiction may occasionally get the chop in politically correct 21st-century American high schools. But as Benjamin Alexander writes in...
Jared Staudt
Feb 11, 20203 min read
Pray the new Consecration to St. Joseph beginning Feb. 16
“Now is the time of St. Joseph!” Although it possible to overlook St. Joseph in the story of salvation history due to his silence in the...
Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
Feb 5, 20204 min read
Building marriages that last a lifetime
Our culture talks a lot about marriage tragedies but not enough about successes. In the checkout line at the grocery store, on TV shows...
George Weigel
Feb 5, 20203 min read
Auschwitz and “intrinsic evil”
Seventy-five years ago, on January 27, 1945, the infantrymen of the Red Army’s 322nd Rifle Division were bludgeoning their way into the...
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