Blog Posts
This reflection from Denver Catholic explores the profound connection between Easter, the Cross, and covenant love in the context of marriage. Drawing from Scripture and Catholic teaching, the article invites couples to see their relationship as a living witness to Christ’s sacrificial love. Whether you're newly married or decades in, you'll find encouragement and spiritual insight for living out your vows with renewed purpose, mercy, and faith.
We are returning mankind, starting with ourselves and our families, to our first relationship with God — he returns us to innocence in the sacrament of confession, then goes about establishing his will “on earth as it is in heaven” through the sacrament of marriage.
Most of the time, His will is simply that we remain faithful to our daily duties, doing the next “right thing” with love, as the Saints teach us. And we need to be ready, if in the silence, the Lord asks something bigger of us than He asked on any prior day.
Today our digital devices—especially portable devices, and their most popular applications, social media, combining communication with entertainment—are changing us. Increasingly we are aware that this is not accidental—that in many ways the devices, and the applications they run, are designed to change us, engineered specifically to capture and modify our sense of self, how we think, what we do.
The theology of the body is among the most beautiful and transformative of all Christian investigations into the nature of God’s creation. It is also among the most needful...
’23 ended with Fiducia Supplicans (FS), a papal ‘bang’ that at once wounded and awakened me. Fallout from the doc nearly canceled Christmas. But wise men reflected holy light and still lead us...
Christians generally turn to Augustine in troubled times, intuiting that he probably offers prophetic guidance for us somewhere in his voluminous corpus. But it isn’t just Christians who find something to connect with in the Confessions...
Most if not all of us have been harmed by the destructive power of pornography. I, like many people, have struggled for much of my life to rid myself of it. As a young man...
Though often misunderstood as ‘Catholic abstinence’, chastity encompasses a dimensional understanding of what it means to be human in our passions. Chastity is about ordering these passions so that the powers of life and love engender creativity rather than squander it. That involves a dozen little streams that contribute to a river teeming with life yet necessarily cleansed, stirred, and directed for the sake of life...