Author Archive for Archbishop Charles Chaput

Charles Joseph Chaput, OFM Cap is the Archbishop of Denver and the author of Render Unto Caesar: Serving the Nation by Living Our Catholic Beliefs in Political Life.

Immigration Reform: Renewing the Soul of a Nation
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Immigration Reform: Renewing the Soul of a Nation

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by on Jun 27, 2013 in Featured, On Books, The Shepherd's Voice, The Social Order, Those in Need
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“Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of us Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs?” – Benjamin Franklin, 1751 “Immigration is about more than immigration.  It is about renewing the soul of America.” – +Jose […]

Amelia Rivera, the Disabled and the Sanctity of Life
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Amelia Rivera, the Disabled and the Sanctity of Life

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by on Feb 02, 2012 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics, The Shepherd's Voice
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Recently, local media covered the story of Amelia Rivera, a young girl with Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome reportedly denied a kidney transplant by a local hospital. Amelia’s syndrome results in serious developmental delays, and according to her parents, the hospital declined a transplant due to her diminished mental ability and shortened lifespan. It’s unwise to assume that […]

Our Choices Shape Our Eternity
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Our Choices Shape Our Eternity

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by on Jul 18, 2011 in Featured, The Shepherd's Voice
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In Muslim countries like Pakistan, many of the young men begin studying the Koran as soon as they can read. In fact, many of them learn to read using the Koran. They read and discuss the Koran every day, for hours each day, every day of the week until they know it by heart. Many of them […]

Catholic Identity and Catholic Social Ministry
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Catholic Identity and Catholic Social Ministry

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by on Jul 04, 2011 in The Shepherd's Voice
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This column is condensed and adapted from Archbishop Chaput’s June 21 remarks to the Catholic Social Workers National Association meeting in Denver. Click here to read the full text. Everything in Catholic social ministry begins and ends with Jesus Christ.  If it doesn’t, it isn’t Catholic.  And if our social work isn’t deeply, confidently and explicitly […]

The Importance of Fathers in Our Search for God: Part III
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The Importance of Fathers in Our Search for God: Part III

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by on Jun 17, 2011 in The Shepherd's Voice
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Editor’s Note: The following address was delivered by Archbishop Chaput on May 1, 1999, to the pastoral workers of the Diocese of Cheyenne. Catholic Lane offers the address to our readers in three parts this week, presenting the final installment today. There’s an old saying that the greatest gift a father can give his children is to […]

The Importance of Fathers in Our Search for God: Part II
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The Importance of Fathers in Our Search for God: Part II

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by on Jun 15, 2011 in The Shepherd's Voice
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Editor’s Note: The following address was delivered by Archbishop Chaput on May 1, 1999, to the pastoral workers of the Diocese of Cheyenne. Catholic Lane offers the address to our readers in three parts this week on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. These have been a tough couple of decades for fathers in particular, and men in […]

The Importance of Fathers in Our Search for God: Part I
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The Importance of Fathers in Our Search for God: Part I

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by on Jun 13, 2011 in The Shepherd's Voice
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Editor’s Note: The following address was delivered by Archbishop Chaput on May 1, 1999, to the pastoral workers of the Diocese of Cheyenne. Catholic Lane offers the address to its readers in three parts this week on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Let’s begin with a simple question: What do women want? I said it was simple, […]

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We Cling to a Loving God for a Very Good Reason

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by on Jun 10, 2011 in The Shepherd's Voice
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And to be short, when all the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purifi’d, All places shall be hell that are not heaven. —Christopher Marlowe, “Doctor Faustus” Anthony Hopkins is one of those few, extraordinary actors who can make even a mediocre role interesting.  As a result, he’s probably the best thing about “The […]

We Make the Future, Not the Other Way Around
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We Make the Future, Not the Other Way Around

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by on May 10, 2011 in On Books, The Shepherd's Voice
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“How bad are expert predictions? Almost predictably bad.  In 2005, Philip Tetlock, a professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, published the results of a magisterial 20-year analysis of 27,450 judgments about the future from 284 experts.  He discovered that the experts, in aggregate, did little better, and sometimes considerably worse, than ‘a dart-throwing […]

Iraqi Christians: A Shared Faith, and its Duties
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Iraqi Christians: A Shared Faith, and its Duties

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by on Feb 06, 2011 in The Shepherd's Voice
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Five years ago I received a letter from a former Special Forces officer and graduate of West Point—a career Army veteran—serving in Baghdad as a security adviser to Iraqi authorities. A Catholic himself, he wrote to me about the harassment and violence Iraqi Christians face as part of their daily routine.  He knew, as many […]

Church Has a Duty to Form the Human Heart in God’s Truth
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Church Has a Duty to Form the Human Heart in God’s Truth

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by on Jan 21, 2011 in The Shepherd's Voice
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Over the past few years, as I’ve talked about Catholics and the obligations of citizenship, two quotations have always guided my thinking. The first is from the French writer Charles Péguy. Péguy once said that “Freedom is a system based on courage.” What he meant is this: We’re never truly “free” until we have the […]