Christopher R. Altieri, Author at Catholic Herald

Christopher R. Altieri

September 29, 2020

Eyes on Chicago. September 11 2020 saw the announcement of three new auxiliary bishops for the see, bringing the total number of active auxiliaries in the Windy City to eight. Chicago also has four retired auxiliaries – two of whom, Raymond Goedert and John Gorman, are north of 90 – making ChiTown very well served

‘People are Chestertonian without realising it’: 46 years of the Chesterton Review

September 29, 2020

Fr Ian Boyd, CSB, founded the Chesterton Review in 1974 and led the magazine for nearly a half century, during which the journal established a reputation for academic and literary excellence that make it a model for critical endeavour. Heading into retirement, Fr Boyd spoke with the Catholic Herald about how the landscape has changed

Cardinal Sarah takes a nuanced view on emergency measures

September 29, 2020

There are three takeaways from the letter Cardinal Sarah sent last month, regarding pastors’ duties to the faithful during this persistent global health crisis: the law is the law; reality is reality; the Catholic way of standing mightily on principle is not incompatible with determination to muddle through. Signed on the Assumption and published with

America’s problems go even deeper than this grim election

September 29, 2020

Watching the disintegration of American polity from an ocean-and-a-half away is excruciating. The metaphors are all hackneyed. Not one of them will do. One thing is certain, however: we are way past watching milk spill, past dumpster fires, past train wrecks – and we are fast approaching the “Simpsons parody of a Bosch painting” kind

The Pope’s new series on the social consequences of the pandemic

September 29, 2020

Pope Francis has begun a new catechetical series during his weekly General Audiences, focused on Catholic social teaching. Announcing the series on August 5, the Holy Father invited the faithful around the world to reflect with him on pressing questions raised or brought into focus by the coronavirus emergency, “especially the social ills,” he said.

Analysis: Church’s teaching on euthanasia infallible (Vatican comms outfit, not so much)

September 27, 2020

Samaritanus bonus is a clarifying document that reiterates settled teaching with remarkable patience, limpidity, and force. So, why not remark it?

Trump taps Barrett for SCOTUS seat

September 26, 2020

The stage is now set for a major battle, both in the Senate and in public opinion.

Pope Francis accepts resignation of top curial cardinal

September 24, 2020

Cardinal Angelo Becciu has been mired in controversy for years, and received the red hat in 2018.

The secret of Benedict XVI’s 2010 success

September 16, 2020

This month marks the 10th anniversary of Pope Benedict XVI’s historic visit to the United Kingdom.

Cardinal Sarah tells shepherds to feed their flocks

September 14, 2020

Cardinal Robert Sarah had strong words for the world’s bishops this weekend – of encouragement and perhaps of reproof – especially regarding their responses to the spiritual needs of the faithful during the global coronavirus emergency.

August is a slow month in Rome – but you can still run into trouble

September 11, 2020

Rome in August is always slow. Under the mid-August ferragosto holiday – the remote origins of which reach into Pagan antiquity – the city until very recently would become a ghost town. I recall one year – probably 2014, when Pope Francis went to South Korea for five days in August so we were all

In Wheeling-Charleston, making amends just got a lot easier

September 04, 2020

I’ve been on this beat for a good few years, and have seen a lot of things. It’s tough to get under my skin. Maybe it was because of all that, rather than despite it, that the announcement late last month of the Vatican’s rough halving of the amends proposed for Bishop Michael J Bransfield

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