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Returning God's Gifts appeal sets $2.16 million goal
COLORADO SPRINGS. In order for diocesan ministries to keep pace with the number of Catholics they serve, the Diocese of Colorado Springs’ annual appeal, Returning God’s Gifts, is setting a higher target than last year for its 2010 campaign. This year’s goal is $2.16 million, compared to $2.1 million in 2009, according to diocesan stewardship director Rob Faughnan. The appeal helps fund ministries and programs for a Catholic population of the diocese that currently stands at approximately 142,000 and is growing. read more

Metro North parishes to host Young Catholics Come Home read story

Life Support Center relocates operations to Marian House read story
March 4 Life Rocky Mountain gathers hundreds of supporters read story
Marian House forum addresses homeless camps read story
   
THE BISHOP'S VOICE: Why we should sign The Manhattan Declaration
Bishop Michael Sheridan, S.T.D.

On Nov. 20, 2009, an unprecedented national document was released entitled "The Manhattan Declaration: A Call of Christian Conscience." That declaration pledges and calls all people of good will to a renewed zeal in defending the unborn, defining marriage as a union between one man and one woman, and protecting religious freedom.

  MAKING SENSE OF BIOETHICS: Medicine and the true cost of being in denial
Father Tad Pacholczyk, PhD

Back in the early 1800s, most practicing physicians refused to believe that the simple gesture of washing their hands between patients could help prevent the spread of childbed fever among the pregnant women they examined.

  
  FEATURED MOVIE REVIEW: Avatar

Among the most expensive and highly anticipated films ever produced, James Cameron's science-fiction opus has been ballyhooed, criticized and speculated on for months in the press, on the airwaves and in the blogosphere. Generally speaking, this visually arresting, futuristic extravaganza lives up to the hype without representing the dawn of a new age of cinema.read more

USCCB Movie Review site

CLICK HERE for full-length and capsule movie reviews at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Office of Film and Broadcasting.read more

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