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Letter from Rome, March 8, 2020: Closures, confusion, synod on synodality

March 8, 2020 Christopher R. Altieri 2

This past week here in Rome has been a helluva, and that’s no lie. Schools are closed — right now, they’re slated to reopen on March 16th, but all the indications are the closure will […]

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Interview indicates that Pope Francis knew more than enough about Zanchetta

May 29, 2019 Christopher R. Altieri 13

Among the biggest of the pieces that dropped in the major Papal interview with Noticieros Televisa’s long-time Vaticanologist, Valentina Alazraki, was the one about Pope Francis’s knowledge of the character and proclivities of his old […]

Analysis

Things just got worse. And they also got better.

May 28, 2019 Christopher R. Altieri 17

A while back, a friend of many years wondered aloud, “How bad does it need to get?” My friend was wondering about the crisis of leadership in the Church — a crisis that reaches across […]

Analysis

Despite much-hyped reform, new Curia remains a governing apparatus

April 29, 2019 Christopher R. Altieri 10

Vatican watchers got their first real look at what might be in store for the Church’s central governing apparatus this weekend, when an article appeared in the new edition of Spain’s leading Catholic Vida Nueva […]

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Pope Francis and the Doctrinal Ideologues

May 22, 2017 Carl E. Olson 10

There is a reason the Creed is recited every Sunday. And to defend and hold to doctrine is not only not ideological, it is part […]

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