Homily for the Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome In the first reading, Ezekiel has a vision of the temple of Jerusalem, where water was flowing from below the threshold toward the east, from the right side. The water gives life to whatever it touches. But we know from...
On Friday, November 8, the United States Supreme Court halted a lower court’s ruling that the Trump Administration must fully fund SNAP. Feeding America’s chief marketing and communications officer, Monica Lopez Gonzalez, said that the current “situation is catastrophic” and that “42 million people are having a hard time affording groceries, and their...
Today, I repeat: the Church needs you at the frontiers — whether they be geographical, cultural, intellectual or spiritual. These are places of risk, where familiar maps are no longer sufficient. There, like Ignatius and the Jesuit martyrs who followed him, you are called to discern, innovate and trust in Christ. . . When...
Originally published in Religión Digital, November 7, 2025 Translated and edited for Where Peter Is, with permission from Religión Digital [Editor’s Note: This article is the first in a six-part investigative series originally published by Religión Digital on November 7, 2025, and presented here in English translation with permission. The series explores the rise...
Earlier today, November 4, 2025, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith released Mater populi fidelis with Pope Leo XIV’s approval. The document is a response to years of questions related to Marian titles and devotions that the dicastery has received. It seeks to illuminate the ways that we refer to Mary...
This week I spoke with Sr. Danielle Victoria Lussier and Sr. Theresa Aletheia Noble from the Sisters of the Little Way of Beauty, Truth, and Goodness. We discussed their new audio documentary, Descent Into Light, about adult abuse in the Church. Sr. Theresa and Sr. Danielle have been real sources of consolation for me...
St. John Henry Newman has been declared a Doctor of the Church. Some say that his doctrinal development theology can be used to criticize the modern Church, especially under Pope Francis. Is this the case? In this video, Pedro Gabriel takes a closer look at Newman’s Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine...
You are called by God to be a saint—and that all-important calling from the Lord is not just to be seriously considered on All Saints’ Day, but every day. It is no coincidence that the Catholic Church proclaims the Gospel passage of the Beatitudes on the Solemnity of All Saints. For in this...
Dear readers — I just wanted to give a head’s up that tonight I will be appearing on YouTube with Christine Harrington on her program “Eternal Life Plan.” We will be discussing the state of the Church and Catholic media, as well as my recent article, “Straight Answers: The Reasons Behind Restricting the...
For Part I of this article, click here. “In this call to recognize him in the poor and the suffering, we see revealed the very heart of Christ, his deepest feelings and choices, which every saint seeks to imitate.” This passage from Pope Francis’s Gaudete et Exultate is cited in the prologue of...
Christine Watkins’s 2019 book, The Warning: Testimonies and Prophecies of the Illumination of Conscience, a bestseller on Amazon for years, predicts a future global event — a time-stopping “illumination of conscience” — during which every person on earth will momentarily see their soul as God sees it. According to proponents of this prediction, everyone...
Many Catholics use the phrase “not intrinsically evil” as if, in practice, it automatically means something is good or morally acceptable. But that’s not what the Church actually teaches. In this video, Pedro Gabriel unpacks one of the most misunderstood concepts in Catholic moral theology nowadays: intrinsically evil acts. Here, he explores what...
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