Aquila is considered ideologically on par with his outspoken predecessor, Archbishop Charles Chaput, who left the Denver Archdiocese last year to lead the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. Before Chaput was installed in Pennsylvania, the New York Times called him "one of the nation's most prominent advocates of a politically engaged and conservative Catholicism." Similarly, the conservative Colorado Catholic Conference has called Aquila an "advocate for the unborn and [for] religious liberty."
Politically, the new archbishop is perhaps best known for speaking against the University of Notre Dame's decision in 2009 to invite President Barack Obama to give the school's commencement addres
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