There needs to be some kind of truce called, out of charity and also out of justice, between those who unquestioningly support the government’s — and pharmaceutical industry’s — all-in promotion of the Covid vaccines, and those citizens who are unwilling to accept everything that they are told about the vaccines, including that they are [...]
Letter #17, 2022, Thursday, January 27: Top Ten 2021 #5 I got to know Dr. Malone. I went to visit him and spent four hours together at his home. Malone has become controversial. Why? Because he has publicly expressed profound reservations about the MRNA "vaccines" that have been developed and widely employed as a prevention [...]
Letter #16, 2022, Wednesday, January 26: Top Ten 2021 #6 As we have written on several occasions the vitality and safety of the Christian community in Lebanon is vital for the social, political and religious life of the entire region. The head of the Catholic Maronite community in Lebanon is Cardinal Bechara Boutros al-Rahi (Latinized [...]
Letter #15, 2022, Tuesday, January 25: Top Ten 2021 #7 I have long believed that medicine is one of the noble professions. When a child falls ill or an accident threatens to cause lifelong trauma, a doctor can truly offer marvelous healing. My own brother is a doctor in an emergency room and is heroic [...]
Defending Benedict against trumped-up charges Even at 94, Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI remains a favorite target for the enemies of the “doctrinaire” pontiff By Christina Deardurff, Inside the Vatican magazine Assistant Editor A New York Times story of January 21, 2022 titled, “Benedict Faulted for Handling of Abuse Cases When He Was an Archbishop,” tells [...]
Letter #13, 2022, Monday, January 24: Top Ten 2021 #8 This third of our Top Ten of 2021 selections is an Italian "Maestro" of music both as a composer and a conductor. He is also a scholar of Church history and is working intensively to defend the tradition of the faith in these times. For [...]
Letter #12 , 2022, Friday, January 21: Top Ten 2021 #9 The purpose of the liturgy is to offer praise and worship to the all-holy God in the Catholic mass this fuses the present moment with the moments 2000 years ago when Christ offered the last supper and then was arrested, condemned, and executed. We [...]
Letter #11, 2022, Wednesday, January 19: Top Ten 2021 #10 I received this little note from a reader who is also an accomplished writer herself: Dear Dr. Moynihan, I hope you are ok - with this COVID surge just concerned. Your newsletters are very regular and we haven’t heard from you. I know you mentioned in [...]
The beautiful St. Vladimir's Cathedral in Kiev, Ukraine, now the seat of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, a Church which was granted autocephaly on October 11, 2018, a bit more than three years ago, by Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, the "first among equals" of the Orthodox Patriarchs, despite the objections of the Russian Orthodox in [...]
The Persian wise man, Artaban, hero of the book The Other Wise Man, written in 1895 by Henry van Dyke. The book tells how Artaban, who had planned to set out with the other three wise men (magi) — Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar (link and link) — to find the Christ Child, was delayed [...]
