The Moynihan Letters
Letter #53, 2025, Thursday, June 5: Putin-Pope call
Pope Leo XIV at General Audience June 4, 2025 (@Vatican Media) Letter #52, 2025, Thursday, June 5: The June 4 phone call between Pope Leo XIV and Russian President Vladimir Putin Just [...]
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Conclave To Begin On May 7
“Dear brothers and sisters, Happy Easter!” —Pope Francis, on Easter Sunday, April 20, from the loggia of St. [...]
Understanding the Next Pope: A new website surveys the College of Cardinals in depth
By ITV staff The College of Cardinals of the Catholic Church, a body first created in its present form [...]
Pakistan’s first likely saint; US ambassador to Vatican nominee; Bishop Strickland on McElroy appointment; 3 years in, Rupnik case still “ongoing”; Nigerians honor murdered priest
Pakistan’s first sainthood candidate remains a little-known figure Akash Bashir was just 20 years old when he was killed [...]
Conclave To Begin On May 7
“Dear brothers and sisters, Happy Easter!” —Pope Francis, on Easter Sunday, April 20, from the loggia of St. [...]
Vatican Watch: February, March and April, 2025
February Tuesday 11 Holy See calls for digital responsibility to curb anti-Semitism in Europe Father Domenico Vitolo, Secretary of [...]
Confetti: Italy’s Special-Occasion Candy
By Mother Martha Confetti are traditionally almonds from Avola in Sicily’s province of Syracuse coated in a hard outer [...]
Parolin, Zelenskyy speak; Priest murdered in Katyn canonized; Ecumenical Patriarch attends Pope’s anniversary liturgy; Emmanuel of Chalcedon
By Matthew Trojacek Call between Zelenskyy and Cardinal Parolin: prayers for Pope, peace Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal [...]
Marking All Saints’ Day in Song
Hymns That Remind Us the Christian Life is a Battle to Be Won By Anthony Esolen All Saints’ [...]
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Pakistan’s first likely saint; US ambassador to Vatican nominee; Bishop Strickland on McElroy appointment; 3 years in, Rupnik case still “ongoing”; Nigerians honor murdered priest
Pakistan’s first sainthood candidate remains a little-known [...]
“By a Dying Man’s Bedside…”
More than a century ago, Monsignor Robert [...]
“The Immorality of Forgiveness”
More than a century ago, Monsignor Robert [...]
Bishop Gerard Battersby: “Let’s listen to both the living and the dead”
The Bishop of LaCrosse, Wisconsin, on synodality, [...]
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Letter #53, 2025, Thursday, June 5: Putin-Pope call
Pope Leo XIV at General Audience June 4, 2025 (@Vatican Media) Letter [...]
Letter #52, 2025, Thursday, June 5: Prayer Intention
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmFWToNIZNM&t=137s Above, a video in which Pope Leo XIV speaks his prayer intention for [...]