Christopher R. Altieri is a journalist, writer, and editor with nearly two decades’ experience in print, digital, and broadcast journalism. After more than a dozen years on the English-language news desk at Vatican Radio, Altieri became the Catholic Herald’s first Rome Bureau Chief, then International Editor and later Executive Editor.

An expert on the Vatican with strong knowledge of the global Church and especially the Church in the United States, Altieri is an accomplished investigator who has broken and reported major stories on a host of issues related to Church governance.

Altieri has written for the Catholic Herald, Catholic World Report, Our Sunday Visitor, America, Catholic News Agency, First Things, The Catholic Thing, National Review, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Crux, inter alia. Altieri holds a PhD (research doctorate in philosophy) from the Pontifical Gregorian University and is author of three books: The Soul of a Nation: America as a Tradition of Inquiry and Nationhood (2015, Pickwick), Into the Storm: Chronicle of a Year in Crisis (2020, TAN Books), and How To Read the News without Losing Your Faith (2021, CTS). Altieri contributed the final chapter to the Wiley Blackwell Companion to Catholicism (2nd edition, 30 April 2024), on 'Challenges for the Catholic Church'.