Where Peter Is

Join Paul Fahey for an online workshop focused on recognizing, preventing, and responding to spiritual abuse in the Catholic Church.

Spiritual Abuse Workshop Through the Scriptures, Tradition, liturgies, and devotions, people can encounter the living Christ and experience his love, healing, and freedom. But what happens when the women and men in the Church who are tasked with teaching doctrine, preaching God’s word,...

Canonist Pete Vere on the SSPX excommunications: why Church history, not canon law minutiae, is the real story of where this schism is headed.

Canon Law or Church History? The SSPX Schism Concerning the July 1 Society of St Pius X (SSPX) episcopal consecrations and the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith’s (DDF) decree declaring excommunication, many have reached out to me as a retired canonist and Catholic apologist — one...

Pete Vere, JCL, a former SSPX adherent and canon lawyer grieves the Society’s return to schism after its July 1 episcopal consecrations — and asks why many who spent years undermining Pope Francis now act aghast at SSPX resistance against Pope Leo XIV.

SSPX Consecrations: The Good, the Bad, and the Uncertainty In some sense this is an “after the fact” rewrite of my recent return to canon law and Catholic commentary. I am attempting to reflect and write as I grapple with an event overshadowing my celebration of Canada Day with...