The Moynihan Letters

    Defending Benedict against trumped-up charges     Even at 94, Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI remains a favorite target for the enemies of the “doctrinaire” pontiff     By Christina Deardurff, Inside the Vatican magazine Assistant Editor     A New York Times story of January 21, 2022 titled, “Benedict Faulted for Handling of Abuse Cases When He Was an Archbishop,” tells [...]

     The beautiful St. Vladimir's Cathedral in Kiev, Ukraine, now the seat of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, a Church which was granted autocephaly on October 11, 2018, a bit more than three years ago, by Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, the "first among equals" of the Orthodox Patriarchs, despite the objections of the Russian Orthodox in [...]

     The Persian wise man, Artaban, hero of the book The Other Wise Man, written in 1895 by Henry van Dyke. The book tells how Artaban, who had planned to set out with the other three wise men (magi) — Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar (link and link) — to find the Christ Child, was delayed [...]

   An icon of the Virgin Mary and the Child Jesus painted on the wall of the Preobrajenski Monastery near Veliko Turnovo in Bulgaria (built in the 14th century, collapsed during the Ottoman occupation and rebuilt in the 19th century. Archbishop Viganò today released a message encouraging all to participate in an international Rosary Crusade    "These [...]

     The Persian wise man, Artaban, hero of the book The Other Wise Man, written in 1895 by Henry van Dyke. The book tells how Artaban, who had planned to set out with the other three wise men (magi) — Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar (link and link) — to find the Christ Child, was delayed [...]

  The Persian wise man, Artaban, hero of the book The Other Wise Man, written in 1895 by Henry van Dyke. The book tells how Artaban, who had planned to set out with the other three wise men — Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar (link and link) — to find the Christ Child, was delayed along [...]

    The great pyramids of Egypt, and the Sphinx. The Persian wise man, Artaban, hero of the book The Other Wise Man, written in 1895 by Henry van Dyke, tells how Artaban, who had planned to set out with the other three wise men — Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar (link and link) — to find [...]