COLORADO SPRINGS. A new book titled “The Stations of the Cross in Atonement for Abuse and for the Healing of All” will feature artwork by Holy Cross Father Ron Raab.

COLORADO SPRINGS. The Denver Catholic Biblical School will hold all classes online for the 2020-21 academic year. However, in-person information sessions will be held at Corpus Christi Parish and St. Paul Parish.

COLORADO SPRINGS. Briarfest, the community festival held each year on the grounds of St. Gabriel the Archangel Parish, has been cancelled for 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. Organizers of the event say the next Briarfest will be held Sept. 10-12, 2021. Visit www.briarfest.com for more information and updates.

COLORADO SPRINGS. As part of the ongoing “Due Date Too Late” campaign for Initiative 120, the late-term abortion ban that will appear on the November ballot, the diocesan Respect Life Apostolate is collecting baby shoes in each parish that will be taken to the Colorado State Capital in a press conference before the November election. 

Hace cincuenta y dos años el Papa Pablo VI promulgó su histórica encíclica Humanae Vitae (HV), «Acerca de la vida humana», en la que articuló la antigua enseñanza de la Iglesia de que la anticoncepción viola la naturaleza y el propósito del acto sexual humano.

Fifty-two years ago Pope Paul VI promulgated his landmark encyclical Humanae Vitae (HV), “Of Human Life,” in which he articulated the age-old teaching of the Church that contraception violates the very nature and purpose of the human sexual act.

Following his ordination to the permanent diaconate by Bishop Michael Sheridan on May 27, 2006, Deacon Robert (Bob) Waller was released for service with the Archdiocese for the Military Services and assigned to the Air Force Academy’s Catholic Cadet Chapel. In several ways, the assignment was a perfect fit for the new deacon.

COLORADO SPRINGS. On July 8, St. Patrick Parish’s Knights of Columbus Council 9993 hosted a Silver Rose prayer service to share the message of Our Lady of Guadalupe, and to promote respect for life.

COLORADO SPRINGS. Deacon Bruce Sago, formerly the parish administrator at St. Mark Parish in Highlands Ranch, died July 22 at age 65.

NEW YORK. Greg Daniels, co-creator of the U.S. version of “The Office,” collaborates with that program’s lead, Steve Carell, to launch the new limited-series comedy “Space Force.”

Fans of the popular and award-winning earlier show, which ran on NBC 2005-13, will likely be hugely disappointed in this new offering.

COLORADO SPRINGS. For the eleventh year in a row, Biking for Babies is sending out young adults from all sides of the country to spread awareness and fundraise for pregnancy resource centers in America.

Tonight I wrote two events on my calendar: a birthday party and a baptism. They will be sanitized, scaled-down gatherings — and they will be fun — but still, it pained me to sully those blank boxes with black ink.

COLORADO SPRINGS. Sister of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration Guadalupe Torres died June 25 at age 92 at Mount St. Francis Nursing Center. Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated June 29 at St. Francis of Assisi Church in Colorado Springs. Burial followed in the Mount St. Francis cemetery.

COLORADO SPRINGS. When Christian and Christine Meert were named co-directors of the Diocese of Colorado Springs’ newly- created Office of Marriage and Family Life in 2005, they essentially started with a blank slate. Now, 15 years later, the two can look back and see how their efforts have born fruit.