FULL TEXT: The New Evangelization and the Renewal of Marriage

[NOTE: The following keynote address was delivered by Bishop Michael Sheridan May 9 at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C.]

Your Eminence Cardinal Wuerl, Your Excellency Archbishop Viganò, brothers and sisters in our Risen Lord: It is a pleasure and an honor for me to stand before you today in this Year of Faith and to offer these few thoughts on the dignity of marriage and the essential role of marriage and family life in the New Evangelization.

CATHOLIC VOICES USA: Ready, Set, Defend Traditional Marriage

DENVER. When the time comes for you to defend the traditional definition of marriage in the public square — and it will come — are you prepared? There is no other single issue that causes more heated debates at this moment than the civil recognition of same-sex unions, or “marriage.” Unfortunately, most of those debates end in name-calling and character assassinations. This is where Catholic Voices USA comes in.

Diocese issues revised Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion training

OCT. 14-24 YEAR OF FAITH PILGRIMAGE TO ITALY WITH BISHOP SHERIDAN: Visit the origin of Feast of Corpus Christi

Diocese institutes vetting policy for outside speakers

SMHS students’ biochemistry, genetics work recognized nationally

FULL TEXT: The New Evangelization and the Renewal of Marriage

[NOTE: The following keynote address was delivered by Bishop Michael Sheridan May 9 at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C.]

Your Eminence Cardinal Wuerl, Your Excellency Archbishop Viganò, brothers and sisters in our Risen Lord: It is a pleasure and an honor for me to stand before you today in this Year of Faith and to offer these few thoughts on the dignity of marriage and the essential role of marriage and family life in the New Evangelization.

5-3-13 EDITORIAL: Philosophies at war

Seventy years ago, the great Archbishop Fulton Sheen collected a series of lectures into a book, “Philosophies At War” (Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York 1943), which attempted to make sense of World War II and, in general, why we can’t seem to avoid war.

5-3-13 THE BISHOP'S VOICE: Wants and Rights

In my experience, there is no topic more difficult to have reasonable conversation about than that of so-called “same-sex marriage.”

TAKE 25 for Child Safety

5-3-13 50-SOMETHING ELSE: Father Knows Best

It’s been over a month since the thrilling papal Conclave but it still seems like yesterday when my wife and I were looking at each other in stunned confusion.

‘The Blood and the Rose’ documentary on Our Lady of Guadalupe, tilma to tour diocese May 24-30

COLORADO SPRINGS. A new documentary on Our Lady of Guadalupe and recent studies on St. Juan Diego’s tilma will be featured on a special tour in the Diocese of Colorado Springs May 24-30. “The Blood and the Rose” aims to tell “the complete untold story of the Virgin of Guadalupe,” covering hundreds of years of history leading up to Our Lady’s apparitions to St. Juan Diego in 1531 in what is now Mexico City, as well as reflecting on the tilma itself and the spread of the devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe around the world today.