Denver, Colo., Mar 3, 2005 / 22:00 pm
Speaking to a sometimes hostile crowd of civic and business leaders on Tuesday, Denver’s Archbishop Charles Chaput set out to defend the role of the Church in public life.
Archbishop Chaput’s address to about 120 people at the City Club of Denver was followed by a sometimes-tense period of question and answer in which Chaput pulled no punches in defending the work of the Church.
In his speech, the Archbishop cited the Church’s exhaustive work defending the poor and helpless and being voice on issues like the death penalty.
“As a Church,” he said, “more than 80 percent of our time, resources, ministry personnel and lobbying efforts go to issues that have nothing to do with abortion. But you’ll never see that on anybody’s front-page either, because it isn’t news.”