Sometimes you need to hear about it before the magazine comes to your door. Daily coverage of world affairs by Dr. Robert Moynihan.
“Like a flower he comes forth and withers. He flees like a shadow and does not remain.” —Job 14:2 “A voice called out: ‘Cry.' And I said: 'What shall I cry?' 'All flesh is grass, and all the glory thereof as the flower of the field.' The grass withers and the flowers fall when the breath [...]
" Cardinal Zen has affirmed several times that no Accord [with the Chinese government] would have been better than a 'brutal Accord.' The last three Pontiffs did not share such a position and have supported and accompanied the crafting of the Accord which, at the present, appeared to be the only one possible." —Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re (above left), 86, in a highly [...]
"Grant to us, O Lord, we pray to you, the effect of the devoted supplication, and which has become propitious for us, remove the plague and famine: so that the hearts of mortals know that these scourges burst with your indignation, while they cease for your mercy " – Ambrosian Rite 'Prayer over the people' [...]
Russian Orthodox Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk CNS photo/Robert Duncan February 24, 2020 “Devils take great delight in fullness, and drunkenness and bodily comfort. Fasting possesses great power and it works glorious things. To fast is to banquet with angels.” + St. Athanasius Friends– Dr. Moynihan apologizes for his absence this past [...]
"His appointment is a cover for that other more effective appointment — of Cardinal Sandri — which has been prepared ad hoc to pilot the next conclave . . ." —Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò in a new letter released today entitled "The Faithful Have a Right to Know" "I have a long-standing friendship with Cardinal Sandri [...]
"Aware of the ongoing maneuvers, Kolvenbach, acting in contrast to his usual discreet and serene style, asked Benedict XVI for an audience and, in a firm and determined manner, as perhaps never in his life, asked him not to approve a decision of this type, which the Society this time would not tolerate."—Gianni La Bella, the [...]
Top Ten from 2019 We bring you in the January issue of Inside the Vatican the incredible story of a beautiful Russian opera soprano, Svetlana Kasyan. (To obtain a copy of the print edition, call our US office at 1-800-789-9494). We have come to know Svetlana personally since she sang at a Concert for Peace in [...]
"O Salutaris Hostia, Quae caeli pandis ostium!" ("O Saving Victim, opening wide The gate of heaven to man below!") —A hymn in praise of Jesus Christ, composed by St. Thomas Aquinas, writing in the 1200s. Aquinas says the work of Jesus Christ was, through his sacrificial death, to open the gates of Heaven (eternity) to man. [...]
Dear friend, I would like to send my sincere Christmas best wishes to you as a reader of these Moynihan Letters. May your Christmas be filled with joy, peace and hope. I would like to mention two concepts concerning Christmas, concerning Christ. One is ontological, having to do with being itself. The second has to [...]
"For a long time I have held my peace, I have kept still and restrained myself; now I will cry out like a woman in travail... They shall be turned back and utterly put to shame, who trust in graven images, who say to molten images, 'You are our gods.'” — The Prophet Isaiah, 42:14 and [...]
