By Susan W. Murray Special to the Denver Catholic In the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic last year, 430 parishioners from St. Thomas More...

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...

By Father Blaine Burkey, O.F.M.Cap. Archivist, St. Francis of Assisi Friary The Capuchin Poor Clare nuns of North Denver’s Our Lady of...

She was an Italian immigrant, a loving servant of those in need and the very first American saint, who also happened to walk the streets...

By Jonathan Ghaly “It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick. For I have not come to call the...

By Anthony Gallegos Anthony is a Catechetical School Instructor and the Enrollment Coordinator for Catechetical School at the SJV Lay...

Christ on the Road to Emmaus, Jan Wildens, 1640s We often think of sermons today as the preaching of the doctrine, law, and living of the...

By Anthony Gallegos Anthony is a Catechetical School Instructor and the Enrollment Coordinator for Catechetical School at the SJV Lay...

Ugliness is a spiritual problem. If beauty manifests the perfection and splendor of something, ugliness distorts it, corrupting...

By Father Brian Kolodiejchuk, MC Father Brian Kolodiejchuk, MC was the postulator of the Cause of Beatification and Canonization of...

One of the famous episodes in the Old Testament is the wandering of Israel in the wilderness. The descendants of Abraham, whom God...

“I am with you always” (Mt 28:20). Quoting Jesus at the Ascension from the Gospel of Matthew, Pope Francis shared these words when he...

(Photo: Adobe Stock) For my last day of elementary school, my entire class went to Chuck E. Cheese for a pizza party. I remember saving...

Who is God? And how does his identity impact my life? These are big questions that most of us don’t think about often, if at all. But the...

Part of the tradition of the Catholic Church is meditation on “Fear of the Lord” as a gift of the Holy Spirit, based Isaiah 11:1-3 and...

family, childhood and fatherhood concept - happy father and little son playing and having fun outdoors over autumn park background...

By Elizabeth Klein Assistant Professor of Theology at the Augustine Institute If you are a lifelong Catholic or if you have taken...

In the Old Testament, God’s people of Israel knew of God as father, but only in a general sense. For instance, since God is creator of...

Even when Thomas Aquinas was young, he was known often to ask, “who is God?” As he grew into one of the Church’s greatest theologians, he...

By Chris Lanciotti Today, many of us often hear the phrase that one “finds God in nature.” While something in that near cliché phrase...