The following column is scheduled to be published in the March 17, 2010 issue of the Denver Catholic Register.

The Senate version of health-care reform currently being forced ahead by congressional leaders and the White House is a bad…

God renews the world with our actions, not our intentions. What separates real discipleship from surface piety is whether we actually do what we say we believe.

Our vocation as Christians is not simply to…

What the hell don’t you understand about the term separation of Church and State. Keep your evil hands off of our Health Care Bill. Mind your own business. We don’t care about your beliefs, and if you want…

This column is excerpted and adapted from the archbishop’s June 26 National Catholic Bible Conference remarks.

In the Old Testament, the most dramatic example of renewal through God’s word is the story of Josiah, which is…

Many Catholics will remember Steve McEveety for his work as producer on The Passion of the Christ.  Married, the father of four and serious about his Catholic faith, McEveety has a 30 year film career that began as a…

A friend once described the spiritual life in this way: Each of us is a child with an instinct for beauty, and God, who is the Beauty behind all beauty, is the hidden presence we naturally seek to…

Seventy years ago the great French Catholic writer Georges Bernanos published a little essay called “Sermon of an Agnostic on the Feast of St. Théresè.”  Bernanos deeply loved the Church, but he could also be brutally candid when…

Each year in December, the noise, anxiety and party going of the season tend to obscure the reality we celebrate.  But this year, in the midst of our country’s troubling economic problems and the uncertainty they breed, some of us…

The 2008 election has come and gone, but with a difficult economy, an on-going war and an incoming administration committed to troubling policies on abortion and other sanctity of life issues, the challenges facing us as a country seem just…

To Catholics of the Archdiocese of Denver:

When Catholics serve on the national stage, their actions and words impact the faith of Catholics around the country. As a result, they open themselves to legitimate scrutiny by local Catholics and local…