Thoughts on a New Knighthood
Oct. 25, 2010 (Colorado Springs, Colo.)  - On Oct. 25, Archbishop Chaput addressed cadets at the United States Air Force Academy on the task of Christian moral leadership and the new "spirit of knighthood" that is needed today. [read full text] 

Repentance and renewal in the mission of catechesis
Oct. 15, 2010 (Victoria, British Columbia)  - On Oct. 15 and 16, Archbishop Chaput delivered a series of addresses during the Faith in the Public Square Conference in Victoria, British Columbia. This second address considers the critical role that an individual witness of repentance and renewal plays in defending religious liberty. [read full text]

The First Freedom: Religious liberty as the foundation of human liberty
Oct. 15, 2010 (Victorial, British Columbia) - On Oct. 15 and 16, Archbishop Chaput delivered a series of addresses during the Faith in the Public Square Conference in Victoria, British Columbia. This first address considers the state of religious freedom in today's world. [read full text]

Life in the late republic: the Catholic role in America after virtue
September 26, 2010 (Denver) - Archbishop Chaput examines the virtues which have long been considered foundational to a democratic society, how modern American culture is rapidly abandoning these virtues and the simple action to which Catholics must commit in pursuit of a culture of Truth and goodness. [read full text]

Religion, Journalism, and the New American Orthodoxy
September 24, 2010 (published by Public Discourse, the Witherspoon Institute)  - In an address delivered Friday before the Religion Newswriters Association, Archbishop Chaput commended America’s journalists of religion and challenged them to approach their important work with integrity, fairness, and humility. [read full text]

Living within the truth: Religious liberty and Catholic mission in the new order of the world
August 24, 2010 (Spisske Podhradie, Slovakia)  - Archbishop Chaput addresses the first session of the 15th symposium for the Canon Law Association of Slovakia on Tuesday. He calls upon Catholics in America and in Europe, to resist the world's intolerance of Christianity. [read full text]

Fire on the earth: God's new creation and the meaning of our lives
July 16, 2010 (National Catholic Bible Conference, Denver, CO)- Scripture is passionate; it’s a love story, and it can only be absorbed by giving it everything we have: our mind, our heart and our will. It’s the one story that really matters; the story of God’s love for humanity. [read full text]

Glorify God by your life: evangelization and the renewal of the liturgy
June 24, 2010 (Mundelein, Illinois) - Archbishop Chaput delivered the following remarks during the annual Hillenbrand Lecture, sponsored by The Liturgical Institute at the University of Saint Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary. He reflects on questions of evangelization and the renewal of Catholic liturgy. He examines the key issues of today’s liturgical worship within the context of American culture. Where does the Catholic liturgy fit in a culture which prizes technology, science and material proof, but has lost the vocabulary to understand humanity’s oldest and deepest need: faith in an unseen God? [read full text]

Why this work matters: human dignity and the road ahead
March 9, 2010 - Archbishop Chaput delivered the following remarks to the group Cleveland Right to Life. [read full text]

Health-care reform and the future of the Catholic health-care vocation
March 2, 2010 - Most Rev. Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., the Catholic Archbishop of Denver, presented the annual "Archbishop Michael Miller Lecture" to Catholic health-care professionals at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas. [read full text]

Thoughts on Catholic Higher Education
March 2, 2010 - Archbishop Chaput offered the following remarks concerning Catholic higher education during a breakfast for leadership and faculty of the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas. [read full text]

The Vocation of Christians in American Public Life
March 1, 2010 - At Houston Baptist University on March 1, Archbishop Chaput spoke about the vocation of Christians in America public life. The talk follows fifty years after Sen. John F. Kennedy, then the Democratic candidate for president, spoke to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association. [read full text]

The Prince of This World and the Evangelization of Culture
Jan. 27, 2010 - Archbishop delivered the following address at the Fifth Symposium Rome: Priests and Laity on Mission [read full remarks]

Invocation: Martin Luther King Jr. Marade
Jan. 18, 2010 - Archbishop Chaput delivered the invocation and prayer at the 2010 Martin Luther King Jr. Marade in Denver, Colorado. [read full remarks]

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