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About Christopher R. Altieri
Christopher R. Altieri is a journalist, editor and author of three books, including Reading the News Without Losing Your Faith (Catholic Truth Society, 2021). He is contributing editor to Catholic World Report.
The Dispatch

Thanksgiving back in the States

November 25, 2021 Christopher R. Altieri 3

The last time I was stateside for Thanksgiving, my almost eighteen year-old firstborn son had only nine months of life outside the womb. My hair was full and dark. My brothers and sisters were just […]

The Dispatch

Opinion: Convenient incoherence in Charleston

November 23, 2021 Christopher R. Altieri 7

I have a friend who practices labor law in a state that has “at will” employment, meaning that some employers can terminate some employees at will – no reason given, no questions asked – without […]

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A breezy (and cautionary) history of the papal “dark age”

November 22, 2021 Christopher R. Altieri 13

It’s tough to say when the saeculum obscurum really began, but by the time Pope Stephen VI had been strangled in the jail cell to which his enemies had confined him after he’d dug up […]

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Rule by law has replaced rule of law at the Vatican

November 20, 2021 Christopher R. Altieri 10

However the Vatican “maxi-trial” of Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu et al. shakes out, it has made one thing inescapably clear already: Rule by law has replaced rule of law at the Vatican. “Rule by law” […]

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Cardinal Becciu’s trial is a dysfunctional show with serious repercussions

November 18, 2021 Christopher R. Altieri 10

I’m pretty sure the video I received from a friend in Rome was not – as it purported to be – actual footage from the Vatican City courtroom taken while the trial of Cardinal Angelo […]

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Today’s Mahony sandwich is dry and stale

November 15, 2021 Christopher R. Altieri 20

To be perfectly frank, the Fall Meeting of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops in Baltimore, Md., is near the top of the list of things about which I could not care less. I can’t […]

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Opinion: How do you know there were no red flags?

November 14, 2021 Christopher R. Altieri 27

If you’re Catholic, and if you make any effort to stay abreast of news about the Church, you probably read this week about the two bishops and an entire seminary staff who exonerated themselves of […]

Analysis

Rites, wrongs, and absurdities all around

November 11, 2021 Christopher R. Altieri 37

It’s been a dismal week for the Church in the news, and it’s only Thursday. There’s plenty of gruesome news from which to choose, but let’s step away from the macabre for a moment, and […]

Analysis

Communion, communications, and (more) Vatican confusion

October 31, 2021 Christopher R. Altieri 41

The kerfuffle over Pope Francis’s putative remarks to US President Joe Biden has kicked up a good bit of dust in Catholic circles – understandably – but it has also uncovered some of the dysfunction […]

Features

The French bishops have only themselves to blame

October 19, 2021 Christopher R. Altieri 19

Alfred Hitchock’s 1953 I Confess! Is one of the master’s lesser-known noir efforts. It tells the story of a Quebecois parish priest who is framed for murder. The film is signature Hitchcock in style, but […]

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