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…

My sisters, my brother, my mother, were she alive — any of these — could tell you as can I of what was the ritual in our little house in Philadelphia every single night. My father would ask three questions…

)—“Each year, on the occasion of Lent, the Church invites us to a sincere review of our life in light of the teachings of the Gospel. This year, I would like to offer you some reflections on the great theme…

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…

Words matter.  We don’t like people telling us lies or half truths.  Businesses and agencies spend billions on advertising, presenting the advantages of their products or policies, disguising or ignoring the defects, the downside.  When politicians or public figures do…

One of the characters in the Christmas story who doesn’t appear around Jesus’ crib is King Herod. Herod was a powerful and able ruler who had rebuilt the great temple in Jerusalem. Instead of being grateful, many of his subjects…

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Rome and throughout the world,
and all men and women, whom the Lord loves!

“Lux fulgebit hodie super nos,

quia natus est nobis Dominus.”

“A light will shine on us…

Dear Brothers and Sisters!

“A child is born for us, a son is given to us” (Is 9:5).

What Isaiah prophesied as he gazed into the future from afar, consoling Israel amid its trials and its darkness,…

The debate over affordable health care for America has now moved to the Senate and it is as yet quite unclear what will finally result.

The Catholic support for the Stupak Amendment, which brought the Hyde Amendment’s prohibition of the…

The Advent season arrives as our annual wake-up call. Throughout these weeks, the Scriptures tell us to “awake and be vigilant”, we remember God coming among us in time – when the Word became flesh and was born of the…