Chris Altieri

Journalist, author, editor, etc.

[Chris Altieri @craltieri]

On Saturday, @Pontifex Leo XIV closed a two-day consistory, the second such gathering of cardinals in his not-quite-fourteen-month pontificate. The meeting was not very exciting, which @Crux's ed.-in-chief @CharlesinRome says was the point.
https://t.co/CXzYIAWhaC

[Chris Altieri @craltieri]

On Saturday, @Pontifex Leo XIV closed a two-day consistory, the second such gathering of cardinals in his not-quite-fourteen-month pontificate. The meeting was not very exciting, which @Crux's ed.-in-chief @CharlesinRome says was the point.
https://t.co/CXzYIAWhaC

[Crux Now Media @Crux]

On Saturday, Pope Leo XIV brought an end to the second extraordinary consistory of his pontificate. The meeting of cardinals was not very exciting, which @CharlesinRome says might have been the point.
https://t.co/1FkMdygL3F

[Crux Now Media @Crux]

Pope Leo XIV on Sunday offered prayers for victims of deadly earthquakes in Venezuela – the second appeal in as many days – hours after a significant aftershock struck off the coast of Venezuela.
https://t.co/JHuFnNcYkC

[Crux Now Media @Crux]

JD Vance wants the U.S. & the Holy See to have better relations, like those they enjoyed during the Reagan era. @craltieri looks at what could make such a relationship possible in the mid-21st century, & asks whether Vance is the one to foster it.
https://t.co/Qgd0BQmq3t

[Chris Altieri @craltieri]

The world in the middle of the twenty-first century is volatile and polarized, but so was the world in the days of the Cold War. One major difference: State actors then had healthier institutions.
https://t.co/LEcgtvP4q0

[Chris Altieri @craltieri]

The world in the middle of the twenty-first century is volatile and polarized, but so was the world in the days of the Cold War. One major difference: State actors then had healthier institutions.
https://t.co/LEcgtvP4q0

[Richard Scorer @Richard_Scorer]

@brendanwalsh53 @The_Tablet As of this moment Bishop Oakley appears to still be a member of the Strategic Council for Catholic Safeguarding. Concerning that he was not asked to step back from that role when he stepped back from public ministry?

https://t.co/bXjV8JrQLK

[Brendan Walsh @brendanwalsh53]

The Bishop of Northampton has been charged with two counts of rape, reports Ruth Gledhill for @The_Tablet. In a statement, Staffordshire Police said, “A man has been charged following an investigation by our Rape and Serious Sexual Offences team. Bishop David James Oakley, 70, who is White British, of Desborough, Kettering, has been charged with two counts of rape [of] a female under 16. It follows his arrest in September 2025 following an allegation made to police.” Oakley is due to appear at Cannock Magistrates’ Court on 14 August. 

https://t.co/IxNXFndutG

[Crux Now Media @Crux]

The interim report of an investigation into allegations of sexual abuse against a prominent post-war German cardinal is set to be published on Thursday.

https://t.co/IjkzzmrYpU

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Dear writers, we need your imagination, your narrative creativity and your lively thinking. We need these to create spaces of freedom and authenticity, within which divine grace can make the promise of consolation and peace resound. https://t.co/FEmCrdQ392

[Charles Collins @CharlesinRome]

Despite the fact it is 2026, Pope Leo XIV might be the first @Pontifex of the 21st century. We will find out - maybe - when the consistory takes place. I wrote last year on @Crux https://t.co/vQWPG4M3Jv

[Charles Collins @CharlesinRome]

Pope Leo XIV has his 2nd extraordinary consistory of cardinals of his pontificate.
It gives an indication of how he views #synodality - but until the synodal system tackles the abuse crisis, it will ring hollow.
My latest on @Crux https://t.co/Z5dIWVwFKE

[Crux Now Media @Crux]

The World Cup has been drawing all the attention in Argentina and Brazil, both South American countries where soccer is a central part of national identity. But the Church is concerned about a collateral phenomenon: Online betting.

https://t.co/bq0TTocN6M

[Crux Now Media @Crux]

The killing of a prominent Sudanese priest highlights the “moral failure” that now characterizes the northeast African nation.

https://t.co/U69jZ1JdOg

[Crux Now Media @Crux]

The Vatican has rejected a German bishop’s request for permission to allow lay persons to deliver the homily in “exceptional circumstances” instead of a cleric.

https://t.co/d2ss34hk5v

[Crux Now Media @Crux]

For residents in the south of crisis-battered Lebanon, hopes of better times are mixed with skepticism — there had been too many ceasefire announcements that had failed to halt the fighting.

https://t.co/rIN2L7RLJn

[Crux Now Media @Crux]

Pope Leo XIV will travel to his adoptive home country of Peru in November of this year, where he is currently expected to visit five cities, Peru’s president has announced.

https://t.co/TpFmGbigA7

[Crux Now Media @Crux]

The Vatican has recognised the martyrdom of 20 Spanish priests from Ibiza who were killed in hatred of the faith during the beginning of Spain’s Civil War in 1936.

https://t.co/5orsFvVvQY

[Crux Now Media @Crux]

The extraordinary consistory of cardinals Pope Leo XIV has called for June 26–27 is shaping up to be an exercise in “Leonine” synodality – real collegial collaboration on issues affecting the life of the Church – but so far, the pontiff hasn’t given the cardinals a real-world practical problem to address.

https://t.co/roi9O8coI9