Pope Francis, 86, from a Vatican Media file photo. Now the Pope is in a Roman hospital, resting after an incident yesterday, Wednesday, March 29, following his ordinary Wednesday audience. As he left the audience, onlookers saw him grimace as if in pain. Later, when he was back in his room, #201 in [...]
(File Photo: CNS Photo) Letter #81, 2023 Wednesday, March 29: Pope Francis in the Hospital It is time to pray for Pope Francis and for the Church. He has been taken to Gemelli Hospital. Some report that it is a respiratory infection and other say that it is a heart attack. We will keep you [...]
Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich of Luxembourg (File Photo: CNS/Paul Haring) Letter #80, 2023 Wednesday, March 29: Hollerich These recent interviews by Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich — coming just after the Nordic bishops' pastoral letter of March 25 mentioned in the letter I just sent out — are of some interest because Hollerich is a special [...]
"As disciples of Christ, who is God’s Image (Col 1:15), we cannot reduce the sign of the rainbow to less than the life-giving compact between the Creator and creation. God has bestowed on us ‘great and precious promises, so that through them [we] may share in the divine nature’ (2 Pet 1.4). "—The bishops of the Nordic [...]
Photo Credit Diane Montagna | link Letter #78, 2023 Tuesday, March 28: Old Mass All around the Vatican the morning, new posters appeared. The new posters praise the old rite of the Mass. The posters have large photos of past Popes, like Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI, and quotations from [...]
"On Monday, March 6, Poland’s TVN24 channel broadcast a program in which, among other things, John Paul II was accused of handling inadequately three cases of priests who committed the crime of pederasty when Wojtyla was Archbishop of Krakow (1964-1978)... On Wednesday, March 8, the Prime Minister of Poland, Mateusz Morawiecki, defended publicly John Paul [...]
The Novus Ordo represents a “change in the theology of the Church”: Cardinal Roche British Cardinal Arthur Roche, 73 (link) the Pope’s head of the Dicastery for Divine Worship since 2021, spoke briefly in a BBC report on Sunday, March 19 (link) on the issue of the Vatican’s limiting of the Traditional Latin Mass (abbreviated [...]
The convent in Pienza, Italy, near Siena, which has become a matter of contention Letter #75, 2023 Thursday, March 23: Viganò, Nuns of Pienza, Part 2 The letter below is from Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, 82. It is dated March 5, 2023. This is the second letter he writes in regard to the case of [...]
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, 82, two days ago, on March 14, wrote a new message (link), which we re-publish below. In 2019, I spent a number of days with the archbishop, and during the "Covid year" of 2020, produced the book Finding Viganò. You may purchase the book at this link.—RM *** P.S. Inside the [...]
Archbishop Paul R. Gallagher, Vatican foreign minister (File photo: CNS photo/Cia Pak, United Nations) "One of the things that the Chinese and the Catholic Church and the Holy See have in common is that we don’t think in months, or even in years. We’re thinking in terms of a much longer time..." —Archbishop [...]
