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Articles by Christopher R. Altieri

About Christopher R. Altieri
Christopher R. Altieri is a journalist, editor and author of four books, including Leo XIV: The New Pope and Catholic Reform (Bloomsbury, 2025)] and Reading the News Without Losing Your Faith (Catholic Truth Society, 2021). He is a senior editor for news and affairs at Crux and contributing editor to Catholic World Report.
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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 […]

The Dispatch

Journalism and the art of listening

October 14, 2021 Christopher R. Altieri 13

I want Pope Francis to do well. I’ve never made a secret of how his election thrilled me. I’ve never hidden how I have felt his gestures great and small move me and challenge me […]

Features

The mountains are high and the Emperor is far away

October 11, 2021 Christopher R. Altieri 22

As far as I can recall, this is the first time in more than a quarter-century that I haven’t been in Rome for a big Church event taking place there. The big event is the […]

Analysis

Pope Francis and the French clerical abuse/coverup report

October 8, 2021 Christopher R. Altieri 17

The Catholic Church’s leading expert on sex crimes says the French bishops deserve our gratitude for their willingness to face the disclosure of decades of abuse and coverup. “I think we have to thank the […]

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Papal distractions can reveal papal intentions

September 25, 2021 Christopher R. Altieri 76

By now, you’ve surely heard what happened. “How do you deal with people,” a Slovak Jesuit asked Pope Francis during the now standard Q&A with local Jesuits during papal trips, “who look at you with […]

Analysis

The strange case of Bishop Saunders leaves many questions unanswered

August 29, 2021 Christopher R. Altieri 33

So, the Vatican announced on Saturday that Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Bishop Christopher Saunders from the pastoral leadership of the Diocese of Broome in Australia. Bishop Saunders is 71 years-old. He has […]

The Dispatch

Opinion: Abuse, reform, and the ethics of reporting

August 1, 2021 Christopher R. Altieri 10

Three years ago this month, I wrote in these pages that the US bishops’ “Apalachin moment” had arrived. I meant to say that the then-recent revelations regarding Theodore Edgar “Uncle Ted” McCarrick (the disgraced former […]

Analysis

Traditionis custodes: Best, worst, and middle case scenarios in the short term

July 16, 2021 Christopher R. Altieri 109

Defenders of Pope Francis’s decision to abrogate his predecessor’s liberalization of the Traditional Latin Mass have been long on the sad necessity of the move, but vanishingly few of them have touted its prudence. Moderates […]

America on Trial

An often effective defense of the Founding that is uneven and flawed

July 3, 2020 Christopher R. Altieri 9

In America on Trial: A Defense of the Founding, Robert Reilly brings a gargantuan array of material into manageable scope, and marshals it—effectively, in the main—to offer a defense of the American Founding “and show […]

The Dispatch

Letter from Rome, May 9, 2020: A city out of sorts

May 9, 2020 Christopher R. Altieri 4

The thing about Rome in late springtime is, it’s just about perfect. It is the world’s garden, if you will: bathed in the light of a Sun that has yet to saturate the earth with […]

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