Christopher R. Altieri, Author at Catholic Herald

Christopher R. Altieri

August 30, 2018

Why is the Church still struggling to get a grip on a scandal that emerged decades ago? Surveying the ravaged landscape of the Church today, one question presses itself upon the viewer of the scene with palpable urgency: how did we get here? There have been many answers to that question, none of them completely

Viganò letter: spokesman confirms Cardinal Wuerl cancelled meeting between McCarrick and potential seminarians

August 27, 2018

At the nuncio's request, Cardinal Wuerl cancelled an event where potential seminarians would have met McCarrick, a spokesman confirmed

Roman Curia: The Pope’s new right-hand man

August 23, 2018

Who is Archbishop Peña? Pope Francis has finally named a new deputy for the powerful Vatican Secretariat of State. He had rendered the post vacant in late June when he gave a red hat to the former occupant, Angelo Becciu, and named him prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. The longer the

Pope Francis’s letter on abuse was not enough. We need action

August 21, 2018

The Pope must come up with a concrete plan to address the crisis

The bishops will have to sacrifice power and privilege to resolve the abuse crisis

August 17, 2018

Many Catholics no longer trust them to handle the issue

Polling: Testament of youth

August 16, 2018

Italians – especially millennials – are becoming more sceptical of the Pope Pope Francis spent much of this past weekend entertaining young people from all over Italy – some 70,000 of them, to hear the Vatican tell it – who had come to Rome with the Italian bishops’ national service for youth ministry. The bishops

The Pope’s in-tray: Back to work

August 02, 2018

Francis’s packed August schedule includes a daunting trip to Ireland Pope Francis is back to work this coming week, after a month of “staycation” in the Casa Santa Marta. His schedule was reduced, and his General Audiences were suspended for the month of July. The Pope was not, however, given over entirely to rest and

Set aside ideology. The US bishops are guilty of a collective failure

July 28, 2018

Rumours about McCarrick were widespread. Why did nobody act?

Accountability at the Vatican: Special treatment

July 26, 2018

The McCarrick case has revealed a defect in the system If the allegations against Cardinal Theodore McCarrick are true, they represent a microcosm of the whole abuse crisis. A powerful cleric using his position to commit his crimes and sins; a cycle of abuse, in which victims become perpetrators; churchmen not themselves guilty of abuse

Pope Francis accepts resignation of bishop accused of abusing seminarians

July 20, 2018

Bishop Pineda's resignation comes as separate allegations build up against Cardinal McCarrick

The Vatican: When churches convert

July 19, 2018

The Vatican is drawing up guidelines for the sale of deconsecrated buildings Does not God dwell here anymore? That is the question a conference at Rome’s Pontifical Gregorian University will be addressing later this year. Starkly as it is couched, and poetic as it sounds, the question is in reality quite prosaic. The focus of

Vatican communications: A class act

July 12, 2018

Can a distinguished layman rescue the Pope’s communications reform? Pope Francis’s choice of Paolo Ruffini to lead the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communication could be the most significant decision of his pontificate, as far as the reform of the Roman Curia is concerned. That the announcement met with so little fanfare is arguably indicative of how

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