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10 FEBRUARY 11-24, 2017 | DENVER CATHOLIC Around the Archdiocese 28 days of GIVING HOPE TO WOMEN WHO ARE HOMELESS We are asking for your love and support during the month of February. Please consider a monthly or one-time gift to Samaritan House to help the growing number of women experiencing homelessness in the Denver area. Why Women Experience Homelessness • Domestic Violence • Poverty • High Rents / Lack of Affordable Housing • No Safety Net Please Give Online Today! Your gift provides food, shelter and access to services, helping women in need regain their dignity and independence. Visit: SamHouseDenver.org/28DaysofLove Stock Photo Neil Gorsuch attended Denver's Christ the King School T he nomination of Coloradan Neil Gorsuch for Supreme Court justice during Cath- olic Schools Week appears to a® rm the celebration's 2017 theme: "Cath- olic Schools: Communities of Faith, Knowledge and Service." Gorsuch's life exemplifi es those qualities, according to President Donald Trump and Catholic educators. Although Gorsuch attends an Epis- copalian church in Boulder, he grew up attending Christ the King Catho- lic School in Denver and a Jesuit high school in Maryland. Archbishop Samuel Aquila, who as a parish priest in the '80s taught Gor- such religion at Christ the King, was delighted with his former student's Jan. 31 nomination. "I think it's great that this has hap- pened during Catholic Schools Week!" the archbishop said of the news, which was announced during the Jan. 29-Feb. 4 national observance. Kevin Kijewski, the archdiocese's superintendent of Catholic Schools, was equally elated. "It's great to see how a Catholic edu- cation, especially a Catholic education from within our own Archdiocese of Denver, can not only form and guide students to succeed and be the best they can be, but provide the moral judgment and competence to play out in such a highly visible and infl uential position. "It is a testament to our schools and to having a Catholic education," he told the Denver Catholic. In a Feb. 1 interview with Fox 31, Kijewski noted, "Catholic thought and the Catholic intellectual tradition has shaped him." Gorsuch, a Denver native and judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, graduated with honors from both Columbia University and Harvard Law School and earned a doctorate in legal philosophy from Oxford University. After law school, he was chosen to be a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justices Byron White and Anthony Kennedy. He is the son of Anne Gorsuch, who was the fi rst female secretary of the Environmental Protec- tion Agency. "Judge Gorsuch was born and raised in Colorado and was taught the Supreme Court justice nominee a testament to Catholic education BY ROXANNE KING editor_king@icloud.com @RoxanneIKing PHOTO PROVIDED

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