This week I want to provide a status report on my medical situation and progress.  Last December through January I underwent two operations which addressed hernia repair, which were to be followed by shoulder replacement surgery.  My doctors and I made the decision to delay this surgery until the seasons of Lent, Easter, Confirmations, a June family reunion and USCCB national meeting were completed. 

The Saint John Institute (SJI) was honored to welcome the Most Reverend Samuel J. Aquila, Archbishop of Denver, for a special campus visit and blessing ceremony. Archbishop Aquila was greeted by Father Nathan Cromly, founder and president of SJI, who led a tour of the campus and introduced the Archbishop to members of the SJI team.

The remarkable community of St Ignatius parish pre-dates to the arrival of Franciscan missionaries in 1776. They discovered a beautiful meadow, rich with gramma grass, and named it according to that very feast day as “La Vega de San Cayetano” (the Meadow of St Cajetan).

On Sunday, June 29, I joined twenty-eight parishioners of the Sacred Heart Cathedral to journey by charter bus to the Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi in Santa Fe.  It was a pilgrimage of faith to celebrate the Jubilee year, but it was also an opportunity for us to celebrate with the people of Santa Fe a tradition that has been done for almost four hundred years. 

The Diocese of Pueblo has a new hire!

Writing now from the Charron family reunion in Spearfish, SD.  I send vacation greetings and blessings.  As you may remember, my mother was one of eight original Charrons of Seneca, SD. 

We’re all excited to see the election of our new Holy Father, Cardinal Robert Prevost of the United States, now Pope Leo XIV. 

Grand Valley Catholic Outreach's Executive Director, Sister Karen Bland, was awarded the 2025 Ketteler Award for Social Justice on April 27th in recognition of her advocacy on behalf of and in service to those experiencing homelessness in and around the Grand Valley.

I share joy at the announcement of our new Holy Father, Leo XIV, a native of Chicago.  We pray for our newly elected Pope, with great hope for the future of the outreach of our Church into the world under his leadership.

A poem about the two opposite reactions to the vicissitudes of life--despair and hope.

On this day, May 1, we crown Mary, Queen of May.  In the midst of the Easter Season and the beginning of spring, we give gratitude to God for the Queen of Creation.  In this season of Confirmations, where candidates seal their baptismal gift of the Holy Spirit with their affirming Yes to God, it is important to remember that Mary was the first to receive this gift. 

While Joe Pannunzio is now known as the co architect of the vaunted world champion Philadelphia Eagles special teams, his coaching career began 45 years ago right in his hometown of Pueblo at his alma mater, the University of Southern Colorado (now CSU Pueblo) in 1980 as wide receivers coach.

We have traveled the journey of Lent, and Holy Week shines before us, with a shining, both dark and light, comprising the purpose of the life of Christ. Jesus is to be betrayed, judged, and scourged; a cross will be imposed. 

Find out how St. Therese Catholic School in pueblo, Colorado celebrates the Stations of the Cross.

Just the Sunday before Ash Wednesday I celebrated Mass at St Mary in Westcliffe...

We have entered the season of Lenten reconciliation, preparing for a new Easter. 

Ash Wednesday comes next week, and we are preparing for Lenten observances in our parishes.

The Diocese of Pueblo has a new hire!

The Diocese of Pueblo is excited to announce that we have entered into an agreement with the Augustine Institute to provide the FORMED...

In a Holy Year inaugurated by Pope Francis and called to be “Pilgrims of Hope.”