The Moynihan Letters
Letter #19, 2026, Tuesday, May 26: Beginnings
Two young American Catholic seminarians in 1943, standing in front of the entrance sign to St. Joseph's Seraphic Seminary in Callicoon, New York, USA. The young man on the left, then 17, is [...]
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Vatican nixes “Co-redemptrix, “Mediatrix” as titles for Mary
Their interpretation can be confusing, says the DDF, and detrimental to ecumenism By Hannah Brockhaus (CNA)/ITV staff Pope Leo celebrates Mass November 3 with an image of Mary in the background. (photo: Grzegorz [...]
Vatican nixes “Co-redemptrix, “Mediatrix” as titles for Mary
Their interpretation can be confusing, says the DDF, and detrimental to ecumenism By Hannah Brockhaus (CNA)/ITV staff Pope Leo celebrates Mass November 3 with an image of Mary in the background. (photo: Grzegorz [...]
Archbishop Miroslaw Wachowski, the first bishop consecrated by Pope Leo
Interview with the first bishop to be consecrated by Pope Leo, Polish Archbishop Miroslaw Wachowski, new papal nuncio to Iraq. He was consecrated on October 26 in Rome By Anna Artymiak [...]
The First Weeks of a New Pope
"For you I am a bishop; with you I am a Christian" These words Pope Leo XIV spoke, quoting his spiritual father, St. Augustine, in his first address after his May 8 election. Over [...]
A Day-by-day Chronicle of Vatican Events: October, November and December 2025
By Matthew Trojacek with CNA Reports - Grzegorz Galazka and CNA photos October Friday 3 Cardinal Koch Congratulates Archbishop-Designate of Canterbury Sarah Mullally On October 3, King Charles III approved the nomination of Sarah [...]
Two Musts for the Italophile’s Bookshelf
Don’t start the new year with a resolution to diet. Instead, head to your nearest bookstore or click on the internet to purchase the two recently-published must-haves for every Italophiles’ library and kitchen shelf. On [...]
Vatican nixes “Co-redemptrix, “Mediatrix” as titles for Mary
Their interpretation can be confusing, says the DDF, and detrimental to ecumenism By Hannah Brockhaus (CNA)/ITV staff Pope Leo celebrates Mass November 3 with an image of Mary in the background. (photo: Grzegorz [...]
Marking All Saints’ Day in Song
Hymns That Remind Us the Christian Life is a Battle to Be Won By Anthony Esolen All Saints’ Day is upon us, and that means that Catholics in English-speaking countries may well be singing [...]
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Letter #19, 2026, Tuesday, May 26: Beginnings
Two young American Catholic seminarians in 1943, standing in front of the entrance sign to St. Joseph's Seraphic Seminary in Callicoon, New York, USA. The young man on the left, then 17, is [...]
Letter #18, 2026, Sunday, March 29: Jerusalem
Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, 60, the Latin-rite Patriarch of Jerusalem -- along with Father Francesco Ielpo, OFM, the Franciscan Custos ("Guardian") of the Holy Land -- was, "for the first time in centuries," stopped, by [...]
Letter #17, 2026, Friday, March 20: On the Antichrist
Today's topic: the Antichrist This is what The Catechism of the Catholic Church has to say on the topic: Paragraphs 675 and 676 The Church's ultimate trial Par. 675. Before Christ's second coming the [...]
