A Unique Perspective on the work of Catholic Charities and how it impacts our clients and community. These perspectives also appear in Andy’s Caritas Corner Column in the Colorado Catholic Herald.
Caritas Corner | Housing for Children and a Bed of Their Own
BY ANDY BARTON “How does God’s love abide in anyone who has the world’s good, and sees a brother...
August 21, 2023
Caritas Corner | Good Catholic Songs
BY ANDY BARTON Let me just get this out of the way: the band Black Sabbath is not for...
July 5, 2023
Caritas Corner | Climate Change
BY ANDY BARTON This month marks the eight-year anniversary of Pope Francis’ Encyclical Letter, Laudato Si’ (On Care for...
May 1, 2023
Caritas Corner | Lent is the Season for Justice
BY ANDY BARTON On one of those cold, gray, afternoons this past February, I ran into a friend at...
February 22, 2023
Caritas Corner | The Gift of an Orange at Christmas
BY ANDY BARTON One Christmas day 15 years ago, I sat next to my wife’s grandmother, Marie Vigil, at...
December 16, 2022
Caritas Corner | A Vote Toward Ending Homelessness
BY ANDY BARTON Increasingly, in social settings like dinner parties, the person I am talking to will take a...
November 8, 2022
Caritas Corner | Anger Toward Catholics is Misdirected
By Andy Barton The backlash to the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v Wade in June was predictable...
September 22, 2022
Caritas Corner | Family Homelessness
Andy Barton – May 1, 2022 By Andy Barton In June, a local service provider and a Catholic Charities...
September 12, 2022
Caritas Corner | Four Stories of Homelessness
BY ANDY BARTON Working for Catholic Charities provides me with unique and wonderful opportunities. One of them is this column...
August 25, 2022
Caritas Corner | Justice for Children
BY ANDY BARTON Few issues have unified the Catholic and Christian faithful like the fight against abortion. The 1973 Roe...
July 1, 2022
Caritas Corner | Immigration at the Border
BY ANDY BARTON A group called Complicit Clergy has been circulating a video on YouTube recently. In it, they...
May 1, 2022
Caritas Corner | The Blurred Line Between Charity and Enablement
BY ANDY BARTON One of the greatest challenges in humanitarian work is determining when it becomes enablement. At what...
March 16, 2022
Caritas Corner | Finding Grace in this Advent Season
BY ANDY BARTON One afternoon earlier this month, I received a call from an attorney I know. He explained that...
December 20, 2021
Caritas Corner | Marian House Continues to Change to Meet the Need
BY ANDY BARTON In a six-year span from 1845 to 1851, starvation and illness took the lives of over...
November 9, 2021
Caritas Corner | Time To Get Back To Work
BY ANDY BARTON At this point in the pandemic, nothing should surprise us. Yet the employment numbers that came out...
November 8, 2021