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Christopher R. Altieri

The inexplicable handling of the Bishop Zanchetta case
July 10, 2020
I gave a (virtual) talk last month about the peculiar journalistic niche that goes under the rubric of Vaticanology. While I didn’t quite tell any tales out of school, I did give my listeners what I have good reason to believe was received as a lively portrait of life on the Vatican beat. One thing
Analysis: Pope’s Hong Kong omission complicates all the narratives
July 06, 2020
The questions journalists have now, are: “What made Pope Francis not say the thing?” and “What does this tell us about both the Vatican’s China policy and who has the Pope’s ear in these and other regards?”
Accused predator bishop returns to Vatican post
June 14, 2020
The Catholic Herald independently confirmed the news with Bruni in a brief exchange on Saturday evening, and again after reaching Bruni by phone on Sunday morning.
Efficiency and fundraising: Two glimpses of current thinking in Rome
June 12, 2020
Whether one is in the world of commercial corporate governance or that of ecclesiastical governance, the naked notion of “efficiency” is – as the saying goes – a good servant but a terrible master. It is especially dangerous when powerful figures mistake efficiency for a ruling principle. That’s one reason why the words of the
Robotics in Rome
June 12, 2020
In February, the Pontifical Academy for Life helped to host a conference on the ethics of AI, at the end of which a statement was issued, the Rome Call for AI Ethics. Following that, a team from leading universities, along with the president and officials of the Pontifical Academy for Life, have penned an article
America has made great strides, but serious racial injustice remains
June 12, 2020
“The crisis came to a climax in the early 21st century,” wrote Michael Lind in 1995, in a fanciful note near the end of his provocative book The Next American Nation, “when the Senate – by then cont­rolled by a tiny minority of white voters and wealthy national and foreign donors – thwarted the latest
An Alaskan merger points to broader issues of Church governance
June 12, 2020
John F Kennedy was once recorded raging about an Air Force officer who had wasted money on expensive hospital furniture. The president feared that the overspending would have an adverse effect on military budget negotiations. The officer responsible, Kennedy fumed, should be transferred into obscurity – as should his colleague: “I’d have him go up
Renewed calls for justice on 2nd anniversary of slain priest
June 11, 2020
Bishops and the faithful in the Philippines are impatient with lack of progress in the case.
Vatican charges Italian financier in London real estate scandal
June 05, 2020
Several churchmen have been named in connection with the Sloane Avenue affair, including Cardinal Angelo Becciu.
As papal basilicas reopen, here’s hoping for a better week than the last
May 18, 2020
Last week was a rough one at the Vatican, but there's hope for a turn as papal basilicas reopen to the public and the faithful throughout Italy return to Mass.
Not all officials are saints. That doesn’t mean the Vatican can’t function
May 15, 2020
It happens fairly frequently that I need to explain to intelligent and otherwise well-informed outsiders what the Roman Curia is and is not. Usually, my interlocutors have a picture – roughly sketched but colourful and impressive – of the Curia as a scene from a baroque painting, with Cardinals and Archbishops and Monsignors in their
The Vatican, the lockdown, and a communications crisis
May 15, 2020
The ongoing problems in the Vatican’s communications culture haven’t helped public perception of curial competence. Failures of timeliness and transparency in communication arguably fostered the impression that the Vatican’s response to the coronavirus crisis has been far less competent than it really has been. To the outside world – whether fairly or not – the
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