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

By | 04.09.10 | 10:26 am

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 the Pope on the BBC’s Dateline London show this week.

“The paper trail…

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

By | 03.30.10 | 11:03 pm

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 has rocked the Vatican this week. Archbishop Richard Smith assured Canadian Catholics that their bishops remained…

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

By | 03.30.10 | 4:23 pm

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The Archdiocese of Denver has responded to international reports of sexual abuse and cover up by the Catholic Church in three countries by posting a paragraph on its website not about sexual abuse or coverup or administrative responsibility…

Catholic men gather in Colorado Springs to talk about Catholic men

By | 03.26.10 | 3:31 pm

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 co-hosted the event with Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput.

The conference kicked off with a…

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

By | 03.09.10 | 3:33 pm

Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput posted a defense of the decision by Sacred Heart parish in Boulder to expel the children of a lesbian couple. In the face of mounting bad press criticizing the school for discrimination, Chaput explained simply…

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

By | 02.19.10 | 9:40 am

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 while he was in town. It was a strong anti-abortion political statement. U.S. bishops have…

Sisters of Charity hospital deal altering Denver-area care

By | 02.09.10 | 8:16 am

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

By | 12.29.09 | 7:30 am

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 Year. “The good archbishop models self-government and self-giving,” Andrews wrote. But how can it…

Catholics, evangelicals pledge to ignore gay rights and abortion laws

By | 11.20.09 | 4:24 pm

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 Focus on the Family’s Founder James Dobson and President Jim Daly joined 125 other conservative religious…

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

By | 11.02.09 | 2:02 pm

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 health reform bills making their way through Congress for allowing public funding of abortions. Priests…