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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.
The Dispatch

Reflections on 2023 (with help from St. John Henry Newman)

December 31, 2023 Christopher R. Altieri 9

There’s no mere listing the big news stories of the closing year, 2023. There were too many of them. If one had to pick three story areas, they would be the violent persecution of Christians […]

The Dispatch

What now for Fiducia supplicans?

December 27, 2023 Christopher R. Altieri 69

This whole business is bad, from top to bottom. Whether Fiducia supplicans was intended as a sop to Germans hell-bent on synodalizing the Catholic Church’s understanding of sexual morality, or as part of the larger […]

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Fiducia supplicans appears to have failed spectacularly

December 23, 2023 Christopher R. Altieri 131

It isn’t every day that the top papal lieutenant goes on the record to discuss something about which he’d just said there would be no further clarification, but that’s what just happened in an interview […]

Analysis

Declaration gives cover to blessing “same-sex couples”, but can it be enforced?

December 20, 2023 Christopher R. Altieri 52

The first full news cycle after the Vatican released a declaration allowing pastors to offer blessings for couples in irregular situations was filled with predictable handwringing, improbable popesplaining, and yet another round of doomsaying, mostly […]

Cardinals concelebrate Mass for the election of the Roman pontiff in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican March 12. Attending the service were some 170 cardinals
Analysis

Pondering the future, inevitable papal conclave

November 26, 2023 Christopher R. Altieri 40

Hyper-analysis of Pope Francis’s Angelus this Sunday will likely run well into the week. That’s not because of anything he said or didn’t, but because of his brief and previously unannounced visit to Rome’s Tiber […]

Features

Too much Twitter in Tyler, too little transparency in Rome

November 15, 2023 Christopher R. Altieri 241

The Catholic world is in an uproar over the ouster of a bishop with an outsized public profile that he acquired mostly through social media. If you’re Catholic and you pay attention to these things, […]

Features

Victims of Rupnik release statement expressing hope that truth be “acknowledged”

October 30, 2023 Christopher R. Altieri 19

Five victims of the disgraced former Jesuit celebrity artist-priest, Fr. Marko Rupnik, have issued a terse statement following news that Pope Francis has reversed course and decided to waive the statute of limitations so the […]

The Dispatch

Justice in Rupnik case must be thorough, public, completely transparent

October 28, 2023 Christopher R. Altieri 8

Make no mistake. The only transparent thing in Pope Francis’s volte-face on Fr. Marko Rupnik is its late and utterly reactionary character. Unless and until Francis tries his depraved former confrère in full view of […]

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Waiving the statute of limitations makes matters worse in Rupnik affair

October 27, 2023 Christopher R. Altieri 5

There will be time for a cold and surgically precise reconstruction of what we know about the whole sordid Rupnik affair – it will be a long read and gruesome – but for now, let […]

Features

The Rupnik affair goes from scandalous to contemptible

October 25, 2023 Christopher R. Altieri 42

A disgraced former Jesuit accused of heinous sexual, psychological, and spiritual abuse allegedly perpetrated against well more than a dozen victims – most of them women religious – over some three decades, Fr. Marko Rupnik, […]

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