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Not going away: Top British journalist Hari calls for Pope’s arrest

Voicing a line of argument increasingly heard in the media over the last weeks, award-winning British journalist Johann Hari called for the arrest of...

Edmonton archbishop latest to defend Pope; Denver’s Chaput still silent

Edmonton's Catholic archbishop held a rare press conference Tuesday to defend Pope Benedict in the wake of the sex abuse and cover-up scandal that...

Denver Archdiocese responds not to papal scandal but to ‘media frenzy’

The Archdiocese of Denver has responded to international reports of sexual abuse and cover up by the Catholic Church in three countries by posting...

Catholic men gather in Colorado Springs to talk about Catholic men

More than a thousand men gathered at the second annual Rocky Mountain Catholic Men’s Conference in Colorado Springs last weekend. Springs Bishop Michael Sheridan...

Defending anti-gay school policy, Chaput takes dig at tax code

Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput posted a defense of the decision by Sacred Heart parish in Boulder to expel the children of a lesbian couple....

Silence from Chaput on Marc Thiessen’s Catholic defense of torture

Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput made media-catching public pronouncements during the Democratic National Convention here that Catholic pro-choice then-Senator Joseph Biden should not take communion...

Sisters of Charity hospital deal altering Denver-area care

DENVER-- In the next few months, as the Kansas-based Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Health System assumes control of two hospitals in the metro area formerly run by Exempla Healthcare, nearly 40 percent of hospital beds here will be run under directives approved by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. Abortions will be limited to cases where the mother is at risk of death. Reproductive services will also likely be severely curtailed, as will end-of-life care, regardless of legal advance directives authored by patients.

John Andrews’ strange, clueless ‘Coloradan of the Year’ column

Conservative "Backbone Radio" talk show host John Andrews wrote an end-of-the-year Denver Post column Sunday nominating Archbishop Charles Chaput as his Coloradan of the...

Catholics, evangelicals pledge to ignore gay rights and abortion laws

Religious leaders signed a pledge Friday announcing that they won't abide by laws that support gay marriage or abortion. Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput and...

Catholic pastors directed to distribute anti-health reform materials at mass

This past weekend the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops instructed pastors at parishes across the country to distribute material urging Catholics to oppose the...
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