"The answer can be found in the pages of Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum. In it, he gives the Church’s answer to communism: inequality and class conflict are not aberrations to be fixed, but rather they are a part of the human condition. Mankind lives in a fallen world, a world felled by man’s disobedience to [...]
Metropolitan Nikodim (secular name Boris Georgiyevich Rotov, Russian: Борис Георгиевич Ротов, October 15, 1929-September 5, 1978 — he died in Rome at the young age of 48), was the Russian Orthodox metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod from 1963 until his death. Photo Credit “Three days ago the Orthodox Metropolitan of Leningrad passed away in my [...]
"Gentlemen may cry, 'Peace,' 'Peace' – but there is no peace..." —Patrick Henry, in the Virginia House of Burgesses, 1775 (link) "Providing lethal aid to Ukraine would exploit Russia’s greatest point of external vulnerability. But any increase in U.S. military arms and advice to Ukraine would need to be carefully calibrated to increase the costs [...]
Letter #57, 2022, Monday, March 28: The Attack on Ukraine The following article on the war in Ukraine, written by Dr. John Lamont, is a powerful indictment of the decision of the Russian government to attack Ukraine. Because it contains some facts and arguments I have not seen in other places, I thought it worth [...]
Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and Pope Francis met at Jose Marti International Airport in Havana February 12, 2016 — six years ago now. The Pope was traveling to Mexico for a six-day pastoral visit. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) "It’s difficult to see how Moscow will be part of any future ecumenical dialogue [...]
"In January of this year, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists announced that its so-called 'doomsday clock' was set to 100 seconds before midnight, the metaphorical time they used to signify an extinction-level event for humanity. They warned that the prospect of a cataclysmic nuclear exchange among the U.S., Russia and/or China was dangerously possible, and specifically [...]
Pope Francis prays in front of the original statue of Our Lady of Fatima during a Marian vigil in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican in this Oct. 12, 2013, file photo. The pope has invited "every community and every believer" to join him in consecrating and entrusting Russia and Ukraine to Mary March [...]
"The people of Ukraine and Russia, who venerate you with great love, now turn to you, even as your heart beats with compassion for them and for all those peoples decimated by war, hunger, injustice and poverty." —From the just-released text of the prayer to the Virgin Mary ("O Mary, Mother of God," is how [...]
Letter #52, 2022, Thursday, March 17, 2022 A report that Pope Francis will ask all the Catholic bishops of the world to join him March 25 in consecrating Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, as requested by the Virgin Mary at Fatima in 1917, has now been confirmed in a letter from [...]
Letter #51, 2022, Thursday, March 17: Conclave The pontificate of Pope Francis began nine years ago. He was elected on March 13 and installed on March 19, the Feast of St. Joseph, in 2013. That means that in two days he will have completed nine years as Pope. But already in Rome and elsewhere people [...]
