This coming Monday, we will celebrate the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. We do so because the Father...

This week we will celebrate Thanksgiving and begin the liturgical season of Advent. While the two events may not appear to be related, I...

“Father, it’s Andrea. There’s no more time. Noemi is dying,” he said in the early morning phone call to the pope’s almoner, Archbishop...

All Souls’ Day is an opportunity of mercy because it offers us a reminder to pray for the dead and through our prayers and sacrifices,...

The solemnity of All Saints’ is quickly approaching and it is a feast that should cause our hearts to fill with hope because we are...

A few days ago I received a letter from a fellow bishop that struck a chord with me because it emphasized the need for holiness in our...

I doubt that Pope Francis has heard of Ernie Banks, the Hall of Fame shortstop. But like “Mr. Cub,” whose love for baseball led him to...

This past weekend St. Peter’s Square was full with those who came to celebrate Mary as a model of faith and their spiritual mother. This...

On Oct. 1, Colorado Springs Bishop Michael Sheridan and I published a joint pastoral letter on immigration , an issue that matters...

As towns along the Front Range were being hit with flash floods on Sept. 12 and 13, a huge mudslide careened down Mount Meeker, just...

All of us are aware of the devastating floods that have occurred in Colorado. The loss of life, homes and property have impacted many of...

KRACOW—The chapel in the archbishop’s residence in Kracow—which everyone calls by its street name, “Franciszkanska 3”—has witnessed a lot...

Across the archdiocese, parents have begun sending their children off to school. This is a time of excitement and challenge, a time when...

“I am confident that you have grasped the scale of the challenge that lies before you, and that you will have the wisdom and courage to...

Criticism comes with the territory when you write books, and the best for which any author can hope is intelligent criticism that engages...

One year ago, I was installed as the eighth bishop of Denver.  It still feels like yesterday to me.  And when I was ordained a priest in...

I grew up in Southern California. On hot days, my imagination turns to the beach—to cooling off with a dip in the ocean and perhaps even...

The people of Israel faced a terrible drought nearly 3,000 years ago. It began when Ahab, the Israelite king, abandoned the true God, and...

In the course of preparing “The End and the Beginning,” the second volume of my biography of John Paul II, I was struck by a historical...

“Parents are parents for eternal life,” reflected Father John Hardon, S.J., “God gives them children in this world, but not for this...