This morning, less than a month after Donald Trump’s inauguration as President of the United States, Pope Francis wrote a letter to the US bishops offering what many see as a stinging rebuke of the administration’s anti-immigrant and mass deportation...
Carl Trueman has recently written an online piece published by First Things, entitled, “Why I Am Not a Catholic.” Here is the heart of his answer: “the present pope seems to be nothing more than a liberal Protestant in a...
I bet there have been times that you, like me, have experienced that empty feeling that you do not belong here, that you are an unwelcomed person – persona non grata. Now magnify that feeling many times. Imagine that you...
I honestly didn’t think the US Catholics could scandalize me any more than they already had. My entire life, I’d been taught by Catholics that the teachings of our faith are more important than political trends or popular culture. I’ve...
Pope Francis’s appointment of Sister Simona Brambilla as the first woman to lead a major Vatican office marks a historic milestone in the Catholic Church’s governance. As the new prefect of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies...
In these early days of the new year, many of us are probably feeling a mixture of anxiety and hope – anxious about the many crises in our nation and world, yet hopeful that 2025 will be better. In his...
Recently I encountered a woman who said to me that many people have left the Church as a direct result of the news of the unmarked graves on the property of the old Kamloops Residential School in British Columbia —...
Any call to action, no matter how necessary and well-meaning, will devolve into platitudes unless we have some idea of when and how to put it into practice. In his 2019 motu proprio letter Vos Estis Lux Mundi, Pope Francis...
What do catechizing the faithful and safeguarding them from abuse have in common? Both, the Church teaches, are responsibilities belonging to the entire Catholic community. In his 2019 letter Vos Estis Lux Mundi (“You Are the Light of the World”),...
In my last article, I described how the Church’s opposition to the death penalty, formalized in Pope Francis’s 2018 revision of the Catechism, reflects more than just a momentary shift; it is the culmination of a long, deliberate development in...
[Editor’s note: Where Peter Is is committed to providing faithful, challenging, and thought-provoking content while defending the integrity of Catholic teaching and tradition. The following account by Dawn Eden Goldstein illustrates a common experience for our writers, who are often...
On August 3, 2018, Pope Francis made a decisive change to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, declaring that the death penalty is “inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person.” For many Catholics,...
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