Where Peter Is

  • LGBT,  Where Peter Is

    The Living Bridge to LGBT Catholics

    Earlier this month I attended a talk by Dr. Mary Healy, professor of Sacred Scripture at Sacred Heart Major Seminary, during the 2020 Encounter Conference on the topic of Christian unity. Dr. Healy proposed a wonderful image for ecumenism that I?ve been…

  • Reflection,  Where Peter Is

    A Vulnerable God

    ?Lord Jesus Christ, through your Incarnation you accepted a human nature and lived a real, human life. Setting aside the glory of your divinity, you met us face to face in the vulnerability of our humanity.? This is the beginning…

  • Pope Francis,  Where Peter Is

    The insidiousness of the opposition

    ?Opposition to the pope is not new, but what is new is the level and intensity that is there?It?s the insidiousness of the opposition movement that I think is scandalous for us.?  Archbishop Wilton Gregory, the new archbishop of Washington,…

  • Pope Francis,  Where Peter Is

    A Response to Ross Douthat

    Where Peter Is was recently mentioned in the New York Times, in a column by Ross Douthat entitled, ?What Will Happen to Conservative Catholicism?? In the piece, he surveys the ways that conservative Catholics in America have responded to Pope Francis. He…

  • Pope Francis,  Where Peter Is

    The lie behind rigidity

    Picking up on what the pope said last month about rigid Catholics as well as the parable of the the Prodigal Son, I want to highlight a homily that the pope gave back in 2016. In that homily the pope draws our…

  • Pope Francis,  Where Peter Is

    What should the Church do?

    In a recent blog post titled ?The Numbers? Don?t Look Good?What Should the Church Do?, Msgr. Charles Pope reflected on the drop in Mass attendance and reception of the Sacraments over the past several decades. And the numbers don?t look good.…

  • Pope Francis,  Where Peter Is

    When I know better than the pope

    During the papacy of Saint Paul VI, both traditionalists and progressives made the same mistake: they thought they understood things better than the Church. The former said that Pope Paul VI shouldn?t have changed the liturgy because they couldn?t square…