Faith & Spirituality

FORMED Denver: A match made for Mission

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...

Jesus may not ‘need’ our adoration, but he asked for it

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...

Capuchin Poor Clare Nuns celebrate beatification of their foundress 

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...

Cabrini Day: Honoring Colorado’s saintly Mother

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...

Thérèse for 2021, a reproposal: The rediscovery of the Father

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...

Memory, Hope, and the Holy Spirit – Part III

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

The importance of story: Finding our place

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...

Memory, Hope, and the Holy Spirit – Part II

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

The Way of Beauty: A Path for Evangelization

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

What is the Mother Teresa Center?

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

From the wilderness to the Promised Land: Learn your faith in the SJV Lay Division

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

Dreams, memories and prayer: Pope Francis on the vocation of grandparents and the elderly

“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...