Archbishop tried to enforce contraception ban, not promote religious freedom
An open letter to Archbishop Samuel Aquila from Richard Detsch of Lafayette: Your letter (ad) in Sunday’s Denver Post, ostensibly in support of religious freedom, is disingenuous in at least two...
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Catholic bishops’ politics and strategies, right or wrong, are ineffective
[media-credit name="Patrick Semansky, The Associated Press" align="alignnone" width="495"][/media-credit]Cardinal Timothy Dolan, of New York, president of the United States Conference of Catholic...
View ArticleStudy finds intensity gap between evangelical and Catholic faithful
Americans who say they are strong in their faith has been a fairly stable percentage for the last 40 years, between 37 percent and 43 percent, according to a University of Nebraska-Lincoln study to be...
View ArticleAfrican-American pastors call on CU to rehire coach Jon Embree after unfair...
Leading African-American ministers have called on the University of Colorado, Boulder, to rehire fired football coach Jon Embree and to examine systemic race-related problems with athletics and other...
View ArticleThe new 113th Congress features some faith –and faithless —“firsts”
It might be hard for some to believe, given recent frustration with the nastiness of the politics there, that Congress is “more religious” than the country as a whole. The Pew Forum on Religion &...
View ArticleCT: “The Most Redeeming Films of 2012″
Sure, there are the Oscars and Golden Globes, but don’t forget “The Most Redeeming Films of 2012.” Christianity Today on Tuesday posted its list of favorites — billed as stories of grace and...
View ArticleSurvey: Evangelical preachers ready to not cling to guns, just religion
While campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination, President Barack Obama famously remarked on “bitter” blue-collar Pennsylvanians who “cling to guns or religion.” Now Obama, in the wake of...
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Cardinals who will elect the successor to Pope Benedict XVI: A Profile
[media-credit name="Dmitry Lovetsky, The Associated Press" align="alignnone" width="495"][/media-credit]A full moon is seen above the St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, early Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013....
View ArticleCatholic theologian will speak to more hidden Jewish roots of Christian worship
It’s just one line in Luke 22: Prepare the Passover meal, Jesus says. The day the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed and eaten, the Gospel says, Jesus sent Peter and John to make preparations for the...
View Article“In God We Trust Mine” provides silver for Argentine-crafted chalice for Pope...
A Colorado man made a chance connection with a Argentine silversmith that inspired him to send a piece of Colorado to become part of the new papacy, according to the Archdiocese of Denver. During Holy...
View ArticleSingledom: It also has its moments and milestones meriting your (yes, your)...
This likely will sound like sour grapes, whining, narcissism and greediness. It is all of the above. Yet, after another year and another round of buying presents for engagements, wedding showers,...
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Central Baptist Church: Ordination of women makes history in Five Points
Rev. Cheryl C. Williamson, Dr. Earline L. Hardy and Rev. Dr. Karen T. Lewis sit in the front during their ordination at Central Baptist Church in Denver, CO. (Photo By Erin Hull/The Denver Post) One of...
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“The Rarest Blue:” Israeli expert on biblical hue in town to share history,...
Iranian Jewish men wearing Tallit, read from the Torah during morning prayers at Youssef Abad synagogue in Tehran on September 30, 2013 (Getty Images). Physicist Baruch Sterman is obsessed with string...
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Scared as hell of the devil: Now Pope Francis joins Dante, nuns and my mom in...
‘Feed the Beast extreme cake shop’ in London, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013. The Halloween-themed cake shop will have a 6-foot long devil horse cake dripping blood, and the giant rotting maggot riddled...
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Pot legalization, says Focus on the Family’s Jim Daly, makes parenting even...
Dozens of cannabis plants sit underneath dim green lights at a growing operation in the mountains surrounding Soquel, Calif., on January 8, 2014. Some locals are trying to implement an accreditation...
View ArticleHHS contraception mandate: Religious employers don't find "the accommodation"...
The order says that if the religious nonprofit informs Health and Human Services that it has religious objections to providing contraceptive services, it can, with impunity, skip sending Form 700 to...
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