While we are not officially part of the Catholic Media, Where Peter Is recognizes our responsibility as stewards of online media that strives to deliver content that is faithful to Catholic teaching. For this reason, when the Pope speaks to...
Introduction The first words of a new pope are always read for signals. Pope Leo XIV told the cardinals plainly in his first address to the College, “I would like us to renew together today our complete commitment to the...
Note: This article was first featured January 8, 2026 on Radio Veritas Asia. If 2025 left us worried, 2026 does not yet give much reason for comfort. The Jubilee Year of Hope came with good intentions, but it was marked...
The Holy Father is celebrating his first Christmas as pope with an emphasis on peace. Throughout Advent, Pope Leo XIV has emphasized the need for peace this Christmas. He began the season with his first Papal visit to the Middle...
While reading Pope Leo’s recent apostolic exhortation, Dilexi te, I was struck by an oblique reference he makes in the first chapter. Quoting Pope Francis, Leo observes that “some economic rules have proved effective for growth, but not for integral...
Pope Leo XIV has asked that the faithful spend time during this month of November to pray for those who experience suicidal thoughts, despair, and hopelessness. His request was made via the release of the month’s The Pope Video, a...
On October 4th, Pope Leo signed Dilexi Te, his first Apostolic Exhortation. The document, which was much anticipated as a window into the thoughts of our new Pontif, was released today, October 9th. As Pope Leo explains in his introduction...
At the ecumenical Commemoration of the Martyrs and Witnesses of the Faith of the 21st century held at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls on September 14, 2025, Pope Leo XIV began the ceremony quoting Oscar Romero: Let...
The bombings of Iran by Israel and the United States are clearly immoral when weighed against Catholic doctrine regarding war. According to the church’s second teaching on war known as the “just-war theory” – which stands in stark contrast to...
This past evening, the United States military bombed Iran. The President of the United States declared the mission a “spectacular military success,” “an operation the likes of which the world has not seen in many, many decades,” and maintained that “Iran’s key...
Last November, Cardinal Fernández (the head of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith) said that the Church was considering making “spiritual abuse” a crime in Canon Law. Over the next couple days, I probably had 15 different people text...
Habemus Papam! God bless and protect Pope Leo XIV! What an eventful few weeks this has been! During Holy Week, Pope Francis surprised us by going out and about, visiting St. Peter’s and the tomb of Pope St. Pius X,...
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