The Moynihan Letters

    Letter #135, 2021, Tuesday, October 19: Viganò defends the dockworkers of Trieste, Italy     Above, an Italian policeman hugs a protester on the docks of the port city of Trieste, Italy, and one of the protesting dockworkers prays (link)      "You are demonstrating not only against a cowardly blackmail, with which you have to choose between a [...]

    St. Irenaeus of Lyon, one of the great bishops and theologians of the early Church, will be declared a Doctor of the Church and given the specific title of "Doctor of Unity" ("Doctor Unitatis"), Pope Francis told a group of Catholic and Orthodox theologians on October 7 in Rome. (Here is the full text of [...]

    Above, in this October 24, 2020 photo — a year ago now — Vatican Swiss Guards wear masks to curb the spread of COVID-19 as they stand attention at the Vatican. Now, three Vatican Swiss Guards who have refused to be vaccinated against COVID-19 upon Holy See orders have left the storied corps to return [...]

    “We have to get out of this labyrinth dear friends, but we cannot get out by simply protesting against the Green Pass, which is only the most recent repressive tool and certainly not the last.” —Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò in an address to thousands of Italians gathered Piazza del Popolo in Rome on Saturday, October [...]

    “What earlier generations held as sacred, remains sacred and great for us, too.” —Pope Benedict XVI, Letter to the Bishops of the World, July 7, 2007. This was a letter of clarification which Benedict wrote to explain why he had issued the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum on that same day, 14 years ago (link)     "The [...]

    "I would be scared to feel more important, you know? That I am scared of, because the devil's cunning, eh? He's cunning and he makes you feel like you are in power, that you can do this and that... but like St. Peter says, the devil prowls around like a roaring lion. Thank God I [...]

    "A bishop is but a link in a long, long chain which goes by the name of 'tradition'... He looks back with attention, gratitude and grace to receive what is handed on to him; he looks forward expectantly, wishing to convey, undiminished, the treasure with which he has been momentarily entrusted.” —Bishop Eric Varden, 47, [...]

    New regulations to enter Vatican City have been issued (link)...     In Rome today, the Vatican Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin issued a Decree of the Secretary of State on the Green pass in the Vatican City State which sets forth how the Vatican's new requirement for everyone who enters the Vatican City State to [...]

    We have now posted Tape #17 of The Viganò Tapes on Rumble (link) and YouTube (link).     These are a series of 18 video tapes where Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò responds to 18 of our questions.     We plan to post the last tape, Tape #18, tomorrow, September 29, the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel.     We [...]