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April 2020

April 15, 2020

Pope Francis Speaks the Truth

Right wing white American MAGA "prolife" zealots perpetually shout "but abortion" and brandish the unborn...

December 2019

December 11, 2019

A reader writes to ponder the work of Pope Francis

Sez he: So, I was thinking the other day about Pope Francis and his relationship...

October 2019

October 15, 2019

I don’t buy all of this, but….

...at least the author is trying to read Pope Francis sympathetically and not search for...

September 2019

September 10, 2019

Cdl. Burke Dissents from the Church’s Teaching

Mike Lewis, over at Where Peter Is, writes: Recent remarks by Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke,...

August 2019

August 31, 2019

This could either be good or dreadful

Drama is about conflict and so my fear is that the screenwriter will invent a...

August 22, 2019

Pope Francis Gives Some of Peter’s Relics to Patriarch Bartholomew

So this happened about two months ago on the Feast of Peter and Paul: Patriarch...

August 20, 2019

Silence: The Shield Against Suspicious Man

This is another typically fine piece from Where Peter Is: a website dedicated to the...

July 2019

July 15, 2019

I do not understand people who struggle to understand this pope

I don't really believe they find him "confusing". I think they just don't want to...

May 2019

May 15, 2019

A short history of American Catholic Dissent

30 years ago, libs turned to folks like Fr. Richard McBrien, Rosemary Radford Reuther, and...

May 09, 2019

Where Peter Is on the Francis-Hating Sect’s Push for Schism

One of the weird patterns Francis-hating (and Trump-adoring) conservatism (particularly inside, but also outside the...

May 07, 2019

When Priests Attack

So last week, Jimmy Akin offered a typically lucid critique of the absurd letter charging...

April 2019

April 16, 2019

Talking with a Friend Who Fears Francis

Please forgive me if the capitalization in this post is hinky. My keyboard is on...

March 2019

March 28, 2019

The Ring-Kissing Kerfuffle

So a few days ago, Pope Francis was filmed avoiding having his papal ring kissed....

February 2019

February 21, 2019

Ignatius: A Brief Introduction to the Theology of Pope Francis

Dan Amiri continues over at Where Peter Is: Finally, we should not neglect the importance...

February 20, 2019

Argentina: A Brief Introduction to the Theology of Pope Francis

Continuing his discussion of the theology of Pope Francis, Dan Amiri writes: Guardini is not...

February 19, 2019

Romano Guardini: A Brief Introduction to the Theology of Pope Francis

The next installment in the little series that Where Peter Is is running: While well-educated...

February 18, 2019

Where Peter Is does a nice job…

...of introducing us to the theology of Pope Francis: In God’s gift of faith, a...

August 2018

August 29, 2018

Today’s New Facts I Learned About the Palace Coup

So I'm, like, blissfully unaware of how the complexities of the Vatican work as it...

August 28, 2018

Today’s Palace Coup News

Here is all we actually, documentably know. A man with a huge grudge against Francis...

August 27, 2018

The Vatican Soap Opera Continues

John Allen is usually a pretty good guy to turn to for sorting wheat from...

August 11, 2018

Talking with a reader about this Kairos Moment in the Church

She writes: I was struck by something as I read recently, and I have a...

August 07, 2018

David Mills remarks on the War Crimes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Over on Facebook, David Mills remarks: ON HIROSHIMA AND EASY ANSWERS From a reflection on...

July 2018

July 26, 2018

Echoes of a Previous Panic du Jour

About a month and a half ago, a reader wrote me, but I've only had...

June 2018

June 04, 2018

Here’s a nifty podcast from right here in Seattle

...by Abbott Tryphon of All Merciful Saviour (Orthodox) Monastery near Seattle, Washington. As Pete Vere,...

May 2018

May 26, 2018

Nice to get mail like this

A reader writes: I have to thank you for pushing me towards embracing Pope Francis,...

April 2018

April 18, 2018

Raymond Arroyo: Derision Over Truth

Where Peter Is continues it's look at the Number One Media Enemy of the Pope:...

April 11, 2018

The Pope offers a new exhortation on the call to holiness

You can read it here. Do that before reading all the complaints about it that...

March 2018

March 20, 2018

Sane People Have Started a Blog on Francis!

I'm so happy to see this! A blog by orthodox Catholics who like Francis and...

February 2018

February 01, 2018

Francis Confronts the Marriage Strike

Canonist Pete Vere writes the following: POPE FRANCIS CONFRONTS THE MARRIAGE STRIKE [Pete] Oh. My....

January 2018

January 31, 2018

So last week Rod Dreher wrote a piece to attack Francis about China

Rod Dreher has not been Catholic for a decade, but like so many ex-Catholics, he...

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