Below, you will find my editorial from the July/August 2023 issue of Inside the Vatican magazine. I invite you to join me in less than one hour, 11:00 a.m. Eastern for a live podcast with Iben Thranholm, a Danish theologian who is today one of the leading Scandinavian Catholic voices. We will be discussing [...]
"Under my personal patronage, the civil association Exsurge Dominehas been founded, which has as its social purpose “to provide assistance, support and material help to clergy, religious and consecrated laity who are in conditions of particular economic and logistical difficulties; to defend the unchanged and incorruptible Tradition of the Catholic Faith; to preserve and promote [...]
The problem: our ancestors believed in the holiness of God. Today’s scientists are leaving that “outworn belief” behind, and, via technology, seeking... to make men into gods... with no regard whatsoever for “holiness”... The central proclamation of the Christian faith is a fact of history, an event that occurred in a certain place at a [...]
Bishop Athanasius Schneider, 62, in a photo from 2015, eight years ago, when he was 54. Schneider yesterday, on the Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul (June 29) released a brief but powerful statement on the old Catholic liturgy. He said, essentially, that not complying with prohibitions of the celebration of the old Mass by [...]
"In 1642, at the age of nineteen, he invented an arithmetic machine, the ancestor of our modern computers." —Pope Francis, in a letter about Blaise Pascal, released today in Rome, on the 400th anniversary of Pascal's birth on June 19, 1623 Above, Blaise Pascal (Clermont-Ferrand, France, June 19, 1623-Paris, France, August 19, 1662). Pascal died [...]
Letter #105, 2023, Friday, June 16: Viganò on Today's (June 16) Catholic Protest at Los Angeles Dodger Stadium Here is a long and powerful letter from Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, 82, on a Catholic protest march in Los Angeles which will take place later today, in about eight hours from this writing. Today is the [...]
Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano (CNS photo/Bob Roller) Letter #104, 2023, Friday, June 16: Viganò on D.C. Mass (on June 14) Here is a letter from Archbishop Viganò on a Mass celebrated in Washington D.C. two days ago. —RM Support the Moynihan Letters Archbishop Viganò. Washington [...]
The remark by Israeli "futurologist" Yuval Noah Harari (link) that "AI (artificial intelligence) can even write a new Bible" has gone viral in the past month. Harari made the remarks in a public conversation in Lisbon, Portugal, almost one month ago, on May 19, 2023. (link) The fact that Harari works closely with Klaus Schwab, [...]
Tyrese Gibson by Brian Raimondi, CC BY 3.0, (link) Letter #102, 2023, Friday, June 16: Hollywood A Hollywood actor, Tyrese Gibson, says that Hollywood and the entertainment industry are trying to "normalize" the devil, mentioning him and depicting him "in every video and signs and symbols." Full story below. —RM [...]
Bishop Athanasius Schneider (photo credit | Edward Pentin) Letter #101, 2023, Friday, June 16: Bishop Athanasius Schneider: New Synod norms “undermine the hierarchical structure of the Church” Many Catholics, as they have watched the multi-year process leading up to the upcoming Bishops' Synod on Synodality, to be held in Rome this coming October [...]
