Pilgrimage and the Path Ahead
I returned late Monday from a ten-day trip to Rome, which began less than two weeks after a short trip to Lourdes. I used most of my Tuesday morning sleeping off jetlag, and then I dedicated the late afternoon and...
Author: Mike Lewis
Where is Father Altman?
I have returned to the US, following several days in Lourdes. While there, I participated in the 27th annual St. Francis de Sales International Congress, along with around 250 other Catholic journalists and communications professionals, hailing from 30 countries (although...
Fiducia Supplicans and answering “What happens next?”
Eve Tushnet has written a challenging and thought-provoking reflection on Fiducia Supplicans at Church Life Journal. Tushnet, one of very few public figures who identifies as “an openly gay, orthodox Catholic,” has thought and written extensively on the place of...
Give this Sunday over to the word of God
This upcoming Sunday, January 21, 2024, will be the Sunday of the Word of God! Established by Pope Francis in 2019, the third Sunday of Ordinary Time has been set aside so that it can be “given over entirely to...
Papal compromise or capitulation?
It is not new for Catholics to grumble about a perceived lack of “backbone” from the pope. The failure of the pope to remove bishops who have gone rogue, to defrock priests deemed heretical, or to excommunicate openly schismatic leaders...
Recovery from Traditionalism with Laura Vander Vos
Starting at 10pm Eastern, 7pm Pacific on January 2! In this new episode of WPI Perspectives, I speak with Laura Vander Vos, host of the @mrshappycatholic YouTube channel and founder of Trad Recovery, an online support group and resource...
President of Argentine Bishops on Same-sex blessings
Editor’s note: The following is a WPI translation of a statement by the President of the Argentine Bishops’ conference, Bishop Oscar Ojea of San Isidro. The Spanish original is here. Dear brothers and sisters: At Mass on the first day...
Cardinal Burke’s meeting with Pope Francis
Earlier today, longtime papal critic Cardinal Raymond Burke had a private audience with the pope — his first in about seven years. Other than announcing that this meeting was on the pope’s schedule in the daily press bulletin, following standard...
Honestly confused over “couples” and “unions”?
Since publishing my article on those who put forward dishonest critiques of Fiducia Supplicans, the new Vatican declaration on the pastoral meaning of blessings, I have received a handful of responses from people who say that they are honestly confused...
Criticism of Fiducia Supplicans: Confusion or spoiled milk?
The negative responses to the Declaration Fiducia Supplicans keep coming, and they’re all over the map. And to be honest, it’s difficult to take some of them seriously. Chris Altieri of Catholic World Report didn’t need a full week to...
Make a New Year’s resolution to understand Pope Francis
I think it’s time to begin again with Pope Francis. If this week in the Church has shown anything, it’s that many Catholics simply don’t get Pope Francis. Particularly in the US — although clear cracks have appeared in Germany,...
“Despite everything, always blessed”
Today the Dicastery of the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) published a declaration approved by Pope Francis, Fiducia Supplicans (“On the Pastoral Meaning of Blessings”), which delves into the subject of blessings, describing and differentiating formal blessings — such as those...
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