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A Pandemic of Arms and the Logic of Weapons

  Yesterday, after the Sunday Angelus, our Holy Father Pope Leo XIV offered this prayer intention: Our prayers for the victims of the tragic shooting during a school Mass in the American State of Minnesota include the countless children killed and injured every day around the world. Let us plead God to stop...

Which Pope said this?

The mystery of the choice [of Judas] remains, all the more since Jesus pronounces a very severe judgement on him: “Woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed!” (Mt 26: 24). What is more, it darkens the mystery around his eternal fate, knowing that Judas “repented and brought back...

Leo XIV and Benedict XVI: The Way of St. Augustine

Leo XIV is a pope of several notable firsts. He is the first pope born in the United States, the first from North America, and the first to have Peruvian citizenship. Following his predecessor, Pope Francis, he is the second pope in over a century to hail from a religious order, and the...

Bugnini, the Protestant Myth, and the Making of the New Mass

Debates over the post–Vatican II liturgical reforms often hinge less on what the Council actually mandated than on myths, misattributions, and misunderstandings. From rumors that Archbishop Annibale Bugnini was a Freemason to claims that Protestants secretly shaped the new Missal, critics have advanced narratives that obscure the reality: the reform was the fruit...

On the Violence in Minneapolis

Early yesterday morning, a note came into my Substack home page expressing utter scandal that Pope Leo said that before we are believers, we are human. I let it pass. It’s not mine to put out every fire — and what do you do with people who are looking to be offended? (Never...

Pope St Paul VI on Theology and Magisterium

[Editor’s note: Continuing our effort to introduce Catholics to the teachings of Pope St. Paul VI, we are pleased to share the English translation of his October 1, 1966, address to an International Congress on the Theology of Vatican II. This speech has been cited before on Where Peter Is — most notably...

We cannot proclaim God in a way contrary to God himself

My Spiritual Abuse Workshop begins next week! There’s just a few spots left. Click here to sign up, (and I’ll share more information at the end of this post): Why is addressing spiritual abuse essential for the work of evangelization? Integrity and credibility. Pope Leo recently said in a tweet, “Together, we will rebuild...

Response to Pedro Gabriel from Fr. Brian Harrison

[Editor’s note: The following is a response from Fr. Brian Harrison to Pedro Gabriel’s August 18 “Open Letter to Fr. Harrison on Amoris Laetitia.” Pedro’s open letter was a response to Fr. Harrison’s “Open Letter to Leo XIV on Amoris Laetitia,” published on August 12 (dated 22 July 2025) on the One Peter...

The Church and the City of Man

In a 1969 German radio broadcast, Fr. Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI, predicted what he believed the future of the Church would be. Ratzinger envisioned that the Church of future generations would lose political power and social acceptance. He said: “From the crisis of today the Church of tomorrow will emerge —...