Dominic and I return for another discussion on important topics in and around the Catholic Church, including the pope’s recent trip to Marseille, the controversy surrounding priest and artist Marko Rupnik, and the latest on the controversial Bishop Joseph Strickland...
My daily goal of posting at least one article on the site didn’t happen yesterday. I spent most of my day working on a complicated article about ecclesiology and Church authority, stopping to respond to emails, read article submissions, keep...
Today I had the privilege of interviewing Fr. Ivan Montelongo, one of six non-bishop voting delegates from the United States who will be taking take part in next month’s Assembly of the Synod of Bishops in Rome. Fr. Ivan...
This week on The Debrief, Mike and Dominic discuss: 1) Silence, communication & the synod 2) Archbishop Fernandez and ideological Catholics 3) The “Strickland Watch” in Tyler continues Summary 1) Media access and transparency are becoming key topics as we...
Archbishop Victor Manuel Fernandez has done over 40 interviews since his appointment as prefect of the Dicastery of the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) in July, and perhaps the two most interesting were released this week, in which the Cardinal-designate...
New Episode of the Debrief! Dominic and I are back to discuss recent comments by Pope Francis and Cardinal-elect Christophe Pierre about the US Church, the Pope’s trip to Mongolia, and the recent beatification of a Polish family killed...
The US Papal Nuncio Christophe Pierre has been in Rome, and today Vatican News posted an interview with him about being named a cardinal, what it is like to serve as the pope’s representative in the United States, and his...
In my article yesterday, I discussed Pope Francis’s response to a reporter’s question about the ideology-driven rhetoric of anti-synod malcontents like Cardinal Raymond Burke and the Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) movement. Sadly, he gave an example of an all-too-common...
During his in-flight press conference on the return flight from Mongolia to Rome, Pope Francis answered a question from Antonio Pelayo of Vida Nueva, regarding a recent book for which Cardinal Raymond Burke wrote the Foreword, The Synodal Process Is...
Pope Francis is in Mongolia, where it’s currently late morning on Saturday, the second day of his apostolic visit. If you are so inclined, can watch the replay of his plane landing in the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar via the...
Pope Francis departed Rome on a flight to Mongolia today, becoming the first pope to visit the country. During the trip, the pope will visit and encourage the tiny Catholic community (with under 1,500 members) in Mongolia — a country...
I thought I was used to it — after the rage that followed the publication of Dawn Eden Goldstein’s critical analysis of a devotional book with a devoted following (and a severely troubled author); after the disgusting personal attacks on...
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