Archbishop Charles Chaput Archives

Defying Catholic appeals, Trump moves to end DACA program
- Church in the US
- September 5, 2017
Despite appeals from Catholic leaders across the country, the Trump administration announced today that he would end the DACA program in six months if Congress failed to provide a permanent fix. Established in 2012, DACA provided protection to an estimated 800,000 immigrants who entered the United States as minors and allowed them to continue their education or employment. Catholic leaders have expressed outrage at the decision and pledged solidarity with immigrant communities.
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If bishops want to face racism, own your own complicity, theologian says
- Church in the US
- August 24, 2017
On Wednesday, the U.S. bishops rolled out a new Committee Against Racism. Several days earlier, just after Charlottesville, Crux spoke to America’s leading Catholic expert on African-American theology and perhaps the country’s best-known black priest on what the Church has done to face the race question, and what it could do in the future.
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Mythologizing the devil won’t end well, Archbishop Chaput warns
- Catholic News Agency, Church in the US
- June 7, 2017
“We’re in a struggle for souls. Our adversary is the devil,” Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia has warned, adding that Satan appreciates the irony that humanity cannot appreciate Jesus’ mission without him and that he “exploits this to his full advantage.”
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Society of Catholic Scientists meets in Chicago for first-ever conference

“It helps make Catholic scientists visible,” Thomas Levergood, executive director of Lumen Christi Institute, said. “Intellectually, there’s no conflict between Catholicism and science. There’s actually a lot of synergy between them.”

Dating Catholic style – ‘Time for God to take the reins’

Speed dating seemingly has been relegated to the punch line of a movie like “The 40-Year-Old Virgin,” or the dustbin of the early 2000s. But why? It still exists, and if Anna Maria Basquez, founder of Denver Catholic Speed Dating & Faith Match, is right, it could be just what a jaded Catholic dater is looking for, and she’s got the success stories to prove it.

Catholic scientists converge in Chicago to ask big questions

Could there be other planets that harbor life? Is it possible that there might be multiple universes? What is the origin of the cosmos? Catholic and non-Catholic scientists from all over the world are meeting in Chicago for a conference of the Society of Catholic Scientists to focus on the answers to these big questions.