As reported in the Washington Times,  Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput has not been invited to join a very lengthy list of other clergy members to address the Democratic National Convention when it convenes in Denver next week.  Snubbing the leader of 385,000 Catholics in northern Colorado is “a serious oversight” according to Raymond Flynn, the former Democrat Mayor of Boston and Ambassador to the Vatican during the Clinton Administration.   

Chaput has recently released his book “Render Unto Caesar: Serving the Nation by Living Our Catholic Beliefs in Political Life” in which he call Catholics to live by the teachings of the Catholic Faith, including the defense of innocent life.  Speaking of the nation’s 47 million Catholics Chaput said, they “have historically belonged in huge numbers to the Democratic Party.  They could have stood up in former years and demanded that abortion not be part of the platform, but they did not.”

Instead of following the events at the DNC on Monday, August 25, Chaput and Dr. Alveeda King, niece of Martin Luther King, Jr., will be leading a prayer vigil at a Denver area Planned Parenthood Clinic.  Full details on the Light in the Darkness vigil are available here.