This month, September 2022, Pope Francis has asked us to pray for the abolition of the death penalty, saying, “Let us pray that the death penalty, which attacks the dignity of the human person, may be legally abolished in...
Editor’s Note: Today’s beatification of Pope John Paul I came up on me quickly. Earlier this year, I planned to write an apologia in favor of his cause for canonization, in response to critics who say that too many popes...
There’s something in human nature that motivates us to imagine ways of getting out of impossible binds, solving the unsolvable, or that allow us to go back in time to undo the undesirable situations where we find ourselves. When we...
In case you missed it, here’s the replay of Pedro Gabriel’s dialogue with Professor Eduardo Echeverria about the orthodoxy of Amoris Laetitia: I have also converted it to an audio podcast that you can listen to here (or wherever you...
At long last, the August 2022 consistory is upon us. After an unusual May announcement that a relatively large number of new cardinals would be created in August, Pope Francis will formally make 21 new Cardinals tomorrow. We have discussed...
(Update: Video and podcast links have been added – ML) Video: Audio Podcast: Where Peter Is · Amoris Laetitia – Conflicting Interpretations You’re invited to a discussion that will be livestreamed tomorrow (Saturday, August 27, 2022), at 15:00 GMT (10:00...
Hopefully this is the rare church architecture post that will be well-received by Catholics and other Christians across the ideological spectrum. An article that appeared in the National Catholic Reporter last week, “Disabled Catholics praise pope’s example in publicly using...
Save the date! This Saturday, August 27, 2022, at 15:00 GMT (10:00 EST), author and Where Peter Is contributor Pedro Gabriel and professor and author Eduardo J. Echeverria will discuss Pope Francis’s 2016 post-synodal apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia during a live...
On Friday, Crisis Magazine released a new podcast episode entitled, “How to Properly Understand the Role of the Papacy,” in which editor and host Eric Sammons discussed papal authority with Peter Kwasniewski, a traditionalist author and speaker who has recently...
The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. By the Lord has this been done; it is wonderful in our eyes. This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice in it and be glad. — Psalm 118:22-24 (NABRE) For...
Someone has to say it publicly: The Catholic Church in the United States does not understand the Holy Father and is doing itself great harm. This sentence isn’t entirely original. It’s the inverse of the opening line of a June...
A few days ago, an article entitled “Where Peter Actually Is” by Fr. Ambrose Dobrozsi appeared on the website of the new-ish Catholic magazine The Lamp. In his article, Fr. Dobrozsi attempts to put forth a balanced view of the...
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