October 31, 2012 - Nearly four and a half years ago, on the solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus on a bright Colorado spring day in May, I was ordained and consecrated a bishop at the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception.
 

September 26, 2012 - In 1571, Christian Europe battled the Ottoman Empire for control of the Mediterranean Sea.  Power in the Mediterranean meant control over trade, but it also ensured Christian liberty and religious freedom in Europe.

September 5, 2012 - Grace builds upon nature.  In the Christian life, our natural virtues, abilities, passions and temperament are elevated and sanctified as we grow in holiness—in relationship with Jesus Christ.
 

August 10, 2012 - In 1620, as many of us know, the Mayflower pilgrims came to the Americas to practice their religion freely and to seek a brighter future.

15 de agosto 2012 - En 1620, como muchos de nosotros sabemos, los peregrinos del Mayflower llegaron a las Américas para practicar su religión en libertad y en busca de un futuro mejor.
 

July 25, 2012 - Daniel Boorstin, the American historian and author, rightly observed that: “the ... American highway system has isolated the American-in-transit. This vast ocean of superhighways is nearly as free of culture as the sea traversed by the Mayflower pilgrims.” 

July 18, 2012 - “Work,” wrote Blessed John Paul II, “begins a growing in the heart and in the mind.” Ten months ago, I began a new kind of work in the Archdiocese of Denver. I began the work of Denver’s apostolic administrator. And that work began a new growth in my own heart and in my own mind.

July 4, 2012 - “Nihil sub sole novum,” says the book of Ecclesiastes—”There is nothing new under the sun.” As we conclude the Fortnight for Freedom, I’ve been thinking a lot about how little is new in the history of the Church.  From age to age, and generation to generation, we seem to encounter many of the same challenges to proclaiming Jesus Christ.  For example, the fight for the free exercise of religion has been a part of Christian history from the very beginning of the Church.

July 4, 2012 - “Nihil sub sole novum,” says the book of Ecclesiastes—”There is nothing new under the sun.” As we conclude the Fortnight for Freedom, I’ve been thinking a lot about how little is new in the history of the Church.  From age to age, and generation to generation, we seem to encounter many of the same challenges to proclaiming Jesus Christ.  For example, the fight for the free exercise of religion has been a part of Christian history from the very beginning of the Church.

June 20, 2012 - Thirty-six years ago, as a young college student and a new Catholic, I arrived on Irish soil for the first time. I was there to study Irish history, literature, and poetry, which I did. But I also became a student of the faith and Catholic culture which ran deep in the Irish soil. 

June 6, 2012 - The address Bishop James D. Conley, apostolic administrator of the Denver Archdiocese, delivered May 29 at the John Paul II Center announcing the appointment of Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila to the archdiocese.

June 6, 2012 - The Archdiocese of Denver was truly blessed last week with the appointment by our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, of a new shepherd in the person of an old friend and former priest of Denver, Archbishop-designate Samuel Joseph Aquila

May 23, 2012 - In March, Pope Benedict XVI told a group of U.S. bishops that our culture needs to discover "an integrated, consistent and uplifting vision of human sexuality." Without it, he said, American culture will face "grave societal problems bearing an immense human and economic cost."

May 16, 2012 - In 1992, the U.S. Supreme Court made the second-most important decision about abortion to date. The case was Planned Parenthood v. Casey and at issue was the right of states to regulate the practice of abortion.

May 9, 2012 - For 10 years I worked as a priest in Rome on the staff of the Vatican’s Congregation for Bishops.  I was blessed to serve under two popes, to celebrate Mass at the tombs of martyrs and to be formed as a priest in the heart of the Church.

Nov. 30, 2011 - This column is adapted from Bishop Conley’s Nov. 6 address at a benefit for the White Rose Women’s Center in Dallas. From the very beginning, the pro-life movement has never been only a political movement. Like the abolitionists, and the civil rights movement, our movement has always been about human rights and the moral and spiritual renewal of our country. I believe our biggest challenge moving forward is the increasing hostility to religion in our society and the growing restrictions on religious expression that we face in American public life.