Letter #12, 2026, Wednesday, February 25: Cardinal Ruini [Note: Please consider joining me tomorrow morning, Thursday, February 26, at 10 am US Eastern time (4 pm Rome time) in a live podcast with Bishop Athanasius Schneider, on our YouTube channel at this link.] Bits and pieces of the interview I publish here below have been [...]
Letter #11, 2026, Tuesday, February 24: A Statement by Cardinal Robert Sarah [Note: Please consider joining me Thursday morning, February 26, at 10 am US Eastern time (4 pm Rome time) in a live podcast with Bishop Athanasius Schneider, on our YouTube channel at this link.] Below, an image from almost 2 years ago of [...]
Letter #10, 2026, Tuesday, February 24: A New Text by Bishop Athanasius. Schneider, and the announcement of a Podcast with Bishop Schneider on Thursday, February 26 Please consider joining me Thursday morning, February 26, at 10 am US Eastern time (4 pm Rome time) in a live podcast with Bishop Athanasius Schneider, on our YouTube [...]
Please consider joining me tomorrow morning, February 23, at 10 am US Eastern time (4 pm Rome time) in a live podcast with Bishop Athanasius Schneider, on our YouTube channel at this link. —RM Bishop Athanasius Schneider (born Anton Schneider on April 7, 1961, now 64 years old) is a Catholic prelate who serves as the Auxiliary Bishop of [...]
Pope Leo XIV will begin Lent 2026 with an historic procession on Rome's Aventine Hill, one of the seven hills of the Eternal City Letter #8, 2026, Tuesday, February 17: Lent, Repent... Lent Begins Tomorrow, Ash Wednesday We live in a fallen world. We look forward to a promise: a world redeemed. Yet, [...]
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State, speaking to the press in Rome today about the Vatican's position on a "Gaza Peace Board" being set up principally by US President Donald Trump to oversee the future of Gaza. Parolin said the Vatican will not participate. He said one of the reasons is that it is [...]
Letter #6, 2026, Monday, February 16: Bishop Athanasius Schneider I will be talking live with Bishop Athanasius Schneider in a podcast on YouTube this morning, at 11 am Eastern time. You may join the podcast live at this link. We will be discussing his life and work, and present issues in the Church. One [...]
The late John Allen. He died this morning at the age of 61. (Photo Crux.com) "He impressed upon me, and on all of his colleagues, the absolute importance of fairness and balance, which he considered essential to journalism." Clair Giangravè, a correspondent for Religion News Service who was mentored by the late John Allen, speaking [...]
Dear Friends, I invite you to support the Moynihan Letters, so they may continue to be offered freely to readers around the world. — Dr. Robert Moynihan Support the Moynihan Letters Letter #4, 2026, Tuesday, January 13: The Roche Letter Another bombshell. Earlier today, something important was unexpectedly published: the photographed text [...]
Dear Friends, For more than two decades, I’ve been sending The Moynihan Letters without charge, and I intend to keep them freely available. As the new year begins, I am faced once again with the annual costs of producing and sending the letters to all my readers — about $5,000 in total. If you enjoy [...]
