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Christopher R. Altieri
There's more to the story of the electrician cardinal
earlier this month, two stories featured prominently in social media feeds for a news cycle or two. comparing them makes for an interesting ...
What Pope Francis knew about Zanchetta
among the biggest of the pieces that dropped in the major papal interview with noticieros televisa’s long-time vaticanologist, valentina ala...
Who is in line to succeed the Vatican doctrinal chief?
last week was all about consistories. when will the next one be? who would turn 80 when, and what will it all mean for the church heading ou...
The proof of the pudding is in Buffalo
an interesting question in the wake of pope francis’s reform of reporting law and bishop accountability measures is: who will be first? in t...
Will the new abuse law work in practice?
pope francis introduced reform legislation last week requiring all clerics and religious – men and women – to report abuse, cover-up, or sus...
The time to keep silence is over
one of the most interesting, and largely overlooked or at least under-noticed, points of pope francis’s new apostolic letter motu proprio , ...
What next for the College of Cardinals?
there’s been lots of chatter over the past few weeks about a consistory for the creation of new cardinals. as of this writing, nothing has b...
Has Pope Francis just ruled out women deacons?
pope francis waded into a major church controversy on tuesday when he spoke to the question of ordaining women to the diaconate. while he di...
The gaps in the Vatican's draft constitution
the talk last week was all about the impending reform of the roman curia, to be accomplished – on paper, at any rate – by way of an apostoli...
Why you can't always rely on papal transcripts
there was a pretty big stink in certain quarters earlier this month over some very selective editing of off-the-cuff remarks pope francis ma...
When it comes to curial reform, one dicastery must always reign supreme
a senior papal adviser let slip that the reform of the vatican bureaucracy with which his electors tasked pope francis at the start of his p...
Why has the global response to abuse been so sluggish?
the crisis of leadership in the catholic church resulting from the exposure of clerical sexual abuse and cover-up is protracted, pandemic an...
The crisis is about more than a disintegration of moral theology
when pope benedict xvi renounced the petrine office, he promised to retreat into a secluded - essentially monastic - life of prayer. he has,...
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