We are well into Advent.  Our Blessed Mother, in luminous celebration as Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Immaculate Conception, is watching...

Years ago, I wrote of a Jewish blessing which I want to reflect on again.  It is improvised, spontaneous, and goes something like this. 

Thank you for your prayers and support throughout our endeavors to defeat amendment 79 on the November ballot. 

Vote "No" on Amendment 79: "Right to Abortion"

Respect Life Month and Amendment 79: "Right to Abortion"

Amendment 79: "Right to Abortion"

It was one year ago that Pope Francis promulgated the Apostolic Exhortation, “C’EST LA CONFIANCE” (“Trust that brings us to Love and sets us

This morning, my thoughts and prayers come from Miles City, MT, preparing to return to Pueblo.  As you probably know, my last visit to see m

I offer this story, not knowing its provenance, as told to me by my Uncle Bishop Joe after he ordained me to the priesthood 25 years ago. 

The preparation had been taking place since I started school, but I was now well into the second grade and finally ready.  The greatest chal

Summer is here.  It’s time to go camping.  Memories from the past, from family outings with 9 siblings in earlier years--we would plan,...

I write from Louisville, Kentucky, where I have just arrived for the USCCB June Plenary Assembly.  It is my first time in Louisville, and so

The Diocese of Pueblo covers the southern half of Colorado, bordered by Oklahoma, New Mexico, Utah and I-70. 

At the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Jesus Christ (Corpus Christi), we celebrate the Real Presence of Our Lord and Savior

In the time between the celebrations of Easter and Pentecost, an interim of 49 days,

The message this week is short and sweet.  Come Holy Spirit!  We are already well along the Chrism Trail.  We have just celebrated the Sacra

All of sacred scripture comprises God’s self-communication that the history of humanity is directed towards one goal.  The structure of...

We now approach the fourth Sunday of Lent.  We may have been faithful to our Lenten observances, and we may have wavered.  As we follow...

About this time in Lent, many years ago as a child, I was being prepared for my First Holy Communion.  The first celebration of the...

From the Readings of the First Sunday of Lent we are given a reflection on the meaning of the forty days which are here.  Noah endured...