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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 complicated context of Pope Francis’ confusing remarks about the “Our Father”

December 9, 2017 Christopher R. Altieri 36

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 […]

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Fr. Weinandy was clear and direct. The USCCB was not.

November 2, 2017 Christopher R. Altieri 24

The Bishops had the right – perhaps the duty – to require Fr. Weinandy’s resignation. Nevertheless, the Catholic faithful in every state of life in […]

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Making sense of Pope Francis’ statement about “the liturgical reform”

August 25, 2017 Christopher R. Altieri 41

The Holy Father is focusing his (and our) attention on the rational substance of the reform process. […]

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How Spadaro and Figueroa misunderstand the motto “In God We Trust”

August 8, 2017 Christopher R. Altieri 6

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. […]

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Ecumenism, religious liberty, and Spadaro’s straw man

August 4, 2017 Christopher R. Altieri 19

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 […]

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