Pope Leo names bishop outspoken against abortion laws as sixth archbishop of Denver
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2024, Bishop Golka also released a pastoral letter for the Jubilee year titled “Christ Our Hope” in which he encouraged pastors “to make the Sacrament of Reconciliation available to the faithful as much as possible” and emphasized the need for ongoing personal conversion as a means of effective lay evangelization.
He also spoke to the importance of strengthening Catholic identity in Catholic schools, recalling the mission of these institutions as having their “origin in the person of Christ and its roots in the teachings of the Gospel.”
In regard to the fruitfulness of priestly vocations, an analysis published by Catholic World Report last November revealed above-average results in the Diocese of Colorado Springs, ranking them 71st of 176 Latin-rite dioceses in the United States in its ratio of seminarians to Catholics. The Archdiocese of Denver ranked 106th.
With Aquila and the other bishops of Colorado, Golka also informed Catholic legislators who voted for the state’s Reproductive Health Equity Act (RHEA) in 2022 that they were not to receive Holy Communion until they had contrition and received absolution through the Sacrament of Reconciliation.
3 comments:
I guess K won’t be receiving Holy Communion either!
It’s a shame for that to be a news worthy discriminator.
Also from the bishop's pastoral letter:
"Vatican II was the greatest intervention of the Holy Spirit in the life of the Church since the Council of Trent.
"Just as the Holy Spirit prepared the Church after the Council of Trent for
the renewal of the Counter-Reformation, the Holy Spirit has, through Vatican II, renewed the Church in her mission to bring the Gospel of Jesus Christ to our post-Christian and secular culture through a New Evangelization."
Pax.
Mark Thomas
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