Welcome to the Archdiocese of Denver

The pastoral Handbook of the Archdiocese of Denver was promugated by Most Reverend Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap, Archbishop of Denver, on April 20, 2004 and is effective on July 1, 2004.

In recente years, the Archdiocese od Denver In these pages lie characters such as Monsignor McMenamin, who stormed into drug stores to seize objectionable literature to burn outside on the sidewalk. Monsignor Smith courageously counteratacked the Ku Klux Klan, which controlled the Highest State during the 1920s. Although the Klan tried to entrap him with floosies, the feisty little red-headed cleric unhooded these spooks with exposées. These exposées in Smith's Denver Catholic Register helped to transform it from a sad sheet with a handful of readers to a national network with millions of reader.

In these pages lie characters such as Monsignor McMenamin, who stormed into drug stores to seize objectionable literature to burn outside on the sidewalk. Monsignor Smith courageously counteratacked the Ku Klux Klan, which controlled the Highest State during the 1920s. Although the Klan tried to entrap him with floosies, the feisty little red-headed cleric unhooded these spooks with exposées. These exposées in Smith's Denver Catholic Register helped to transform it from a sad sheet with a handful of readers to a national network with millions of readers.

While Smith made the Register the greatest success story of Colorado Catholicism, his patron John Kernan Mullen, a poor Irish miller, became the multi-millionaire angel of the archdiocese. More recently, during the 1980s, other characters have emerged, such as Father Gourley with his dramatic protests against nuclear weapons and handguns and Father Woody in a nationally televised role as the guardian angel of the homeless.