Opinion
The Jesuit Pope and the problematic reform of the Roman Curia
2017 was a year in which the micro-fissures in the structure began to be visible to the naked eye. 2018 is likely to be the […]
Articles by Christopher R. Altieri
Features
From what, precisely, are Amoris Laetitia “dissenters” dissenting?
If even Pope Francis could be unsure about the orthodoxy of his controversial post-Synodal Exhortation, surely the faithful will be allowed to have perplexities of […]
Analysis
Pope Francis’ “open and incomplete” leadership and the puzzling “reform” of the Curia
Fr. Antonio Spadaro, SJ, the Editor-in-Chief of La Civiltà Cattolica, says the Holy Father’s leadership “is based on the success-error dynamic,” which inevitably “destabilizes whoever […]
The Dispatch
The complicated context of Pope Francis’ confusing remarks about the “Our Father”
The Holy Father’s remarks, made to the Italian bishops’ TV magazine program, invoked a drawn-out and at times acrimonious controversy under the tent of French […]
Features
Fr. Weinandy was clear and direct. The USCCB was not.
The Bishops had the right – perhaps the duty – to require Fr. Weinandy’s resignation. Nevertheless, the Catholic faithful in every state of life in […]
The Dispatch
Making sense of Pope Francis’ statement about “the liturgical reform”
The Holy Father is focusing his (and our) attention on the rational substance of the reform process. […]
The Dispatch
How Spadaro and Figueroa misunderstand the motto “In God We Trust”
In my post last week, I focused on how Antonio Spadaro, S.J., and Marcelo Figueroa, in their much discussed essay “Evangelical Fundamentalism and Catholic Integralism,” misread and even misrepresent the matter of religious liberty in the United States. […]
The Dispatch
Ecumenism, religious liberty, and Spadaro’s straw man
Antonio Spadaro S.J. on Wednesday retweeted The New York Times‘ article on the recent essay under his and Marcelo Figueroa’s by-line in La Civiltà Cattolica, quoting this line: “The main point of the article was the […]