Reflecting on the worsening climate change crisis in the eight years since he wrote his environmental encyclical letter Laudato Si’ — concerning the urgent importance of caring for our common earth-home — Pope Francis laments, “I have realized that our responses have not been adequate, while the world in which we live is...
Early in the present papacy, William Doino Jr. wrote some fine columns in First Things showing how progressive, conservative, and mainstream media outlets frequently distorted Pope Francis’s statements to make him fit their preconceptions. In his articles — written before First Things dropped all its columnists who were charitable to the Holy Father...
This is a Michael Lofton appreciation post. For those of you who are not familiar with him or his YouTube channel, Reason and Theology, Lofton is a convert to Catholicism and a graduate student in theology from Louisiana who has undergone a journey of understanding since he first entered the Church a little...
A reflection on the Readings for Sunday, October 8 — The Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time A couple days ago, I took some time to visit the classrooms of our parochial school. As you can imagine, there were jokes, laughter, games, and more with the kids. When visiting one of the classes, I...
It must first be kept in mind that every quest of the human spirit for truth and goodness, and in the last analysis for God, is inspired by the Holy Spirit. The various religions arose precisely from this primordial human openness to God. At their origins we often find founders who, with the...
Have you ever felt so let down by God that you considered abstaining from the Eucharist as a form of protest, as a way of telling Him, “Fix this!” “Change them!” “Do something!”? I never thought I would get to that place, but within the last several months, that’s exactly where I found...
Editor’s note: Several weeks ago, a mysterious package with an Italian postmark arrived at the Where Peter Is offices. Opening it revealed a typed letter and a scan of what appeared to be an older document, handwritten in Latin. The anonymous author explained that he was a low-ranking Vatican employee. He said he...
It has been a very busy week in the Church. Noteworthy events include the consistory creating 21 new cardinals on Saturday, September 30; the publication on Monday of two sets of dubia by Cardinal Raymond Burke and four other cardinals on doctrinal questions in anticipation of the Synod; the release yesterday of Laudate Deum,...
Today Pope Francis has published his apostolic exhortation Laudate Deum, a sequel of sorts to 2015’s encyclical Laudato Si’, focusing more narrowly on the issue of climate change. Given the rapid worsening of the problem since 2015, it was a given that Laudate Deum would be written in a worried, frustrated tone, and indeed it was. However, it is...
In this episode of the Debrief, Dominic and Mike discuss an eventful week at the Vatican in the lead-up to the synod, a day filled with dubia about Pope Francis’s teachings, and the new apostolic exhortation on the climate crisis that will be released tomorrow. Show notes (1) Busy week at the Vatican...
The National Eucharistic Revival has entered its pilgrimage phase. According to the official timeline, the pilgrimage culminates in July 2024 at the Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis followed by a year of mission that extends to Pentecost 2025. Bishop Andrew Cozzens of Crookston in Minnesota, the chairman of the US bishops’ Committee on Evangelization...
Here’s the audio version. We had a glitch with the video, which will hopefully be fixed shortly: Where Peter Is · WPI Perspectives With Phyllis Zagano In the latest episode of WPI Perspectives, I enjoyed having the chance to catch up with Dr. Phyllis Zagano in a wide-ranging discussion about the Church...
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