Roberto De Mattei Archives

Benedict XVI made a colossal mistake by inventing the role of ‘pope emeritus’

The truth is that the simplest explanations are being ignored. One should conclude either that Pope Benedict XVI made a colossal mistake or that he, in truth, invalidly renounced the papacy – with all the consequences such a conclusion entails for his successor.

Opinion

Dr. Francesco Patruno and Gaetano Masciullo

• Dec 2, 2024Dec 3, 2024

Trump posts Saint Michael prayer on X

President Donald Trump posted a prayer to Saint Michael the Archangel on Sunday, September 29, the day the Catholic Church remembers this saint in particular. The prayer asks for God to cast Satan and demons into Hell.

News

Matt Lamb

• Sep 30, 2024Sep 30, 2024

Professor Roberto de Mattei: Catholics can vote for Trump as lesser of two evils

In a piece published Thursday, Professor Roberto de Mattei explains why he thinks that while Donald Trump's endorsement of abortion would normally prohibit Catholics from voting for him, given the alternative, voting for Trump remains morally licit as the 'lesser' evil.

News

LifeSiteNews staff

• Aug 29, 2024Aug 29, 2024

Bishop Strickland: The Vatican is more interested in silencing Viganò than addressing his allegations

While Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò is excommunicated, the same Vatican tolerates and even supports figures like Theodore McCarrick and others who abuse and challenge Church teaching.

Opinion

Bishop Joseph E. Strickland

• Jul 6, 2024Jul 8, 2024

Pope Francis’ declaration on same-sex blessings full of ‘deception’ and ‘hypocrisy’: Roberto de Mattei

References in the declaration are always and only to the teaching of Pope Francis, ignoring all previous pronouncements of the Holy See, as if the Church's teaching began ex novo with him.

Opinion

Roberto de Mattei

• Dec 22, 2023Dec 22, 2023

Pope Francis gives Synod members Vatican II lobby group’s liberation theology text

Church historian Roberto de Mattei told LifeSiteNews that this hugely significant event is the 'last act of a process' beginning with Vatican II and culminating in Pope Francis’ Synod on Synodality.

Analysis

Michael Haynes, Snr. Vatican Correspondent

• Oct 20, 2023Oct 20, 2023

Benedict XVI’s resignation was the ‘darkest point’ of his papacy: Italian historian

On the latest episode of The John-Henry Westen Show Professor Roberto de Mattei speaks about the legacy of Benedict XVI and the challenges the Church faces in the wake of his death.

Blogs

John-Henry Westen

• Jan 9, 2023Jan 10, 2023

Defending Viganò: Two of the archbishop’s editors respond to Professor de Mattei’s accusations

We thought that, by virtue of our work and close collaboration with His Grace, we might be competent to speak for and defend him.

Blogs

Maike Hickson

• Jun 23, 2021Jul 30, 2021

Abp. Viganò: About some declarations of Professor Roberto de Mattei which recently appeared at ‘Corrispondenza Romana’

'If I have spoken evil, give testimony of the evil; but I have spoken well, why do you strike me?' ~ Jn 18:23

Opinion

Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò

• Jun 22, 2021Jul 30, 2021

COVID vaccines, the common good, and moral liceity: A response to Professor de Mattei — Part III

I would respectfully suggest that Roberto de Mattei ponder his own heavy moral responsibility for the division his booklet has helped to provoke among the Catholic faithful, particularly given its peremptory and haughty tone toward Catholics who want nothing to do with abortion and thus nothing to do with abortion-derived vaccines, a conviction he rather arrantly dismisses as 'sentimentalism.'

Opinion

Christopher A. Ferrara

• May 24, 2021Jul 30, 2021

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Benedict XVI made a colossal mistake by inventing the role of ‘pope emeritus’

Trump posts Saint Michael prayer on X

Professor Roberto de Mattei: Catholics can vote for Trump as lesser of two evils

Pope Francis’ declaration on same-sex blessings full of ‘deception’ and ‘hypocrisy’: Roberto de Mattei

Pope Francis gives Synod members Vatican II lobby group’s liberation theology text

Benedict XVI’s resignation was the ‘darkest point’ of his papacy: Italian historian

Defending Viganò: Two of the archbishop’s editors respond to Professor de Mattei’s accusations

Abp. Viganò: About some declarations of Professor Roberto de Mattei which recently appeared at ‘Corrispondenza Romana’

COVID vaccines, the common good, and moral liceity: A response to Professor de Mattei — Part III