The Moynihan Letters

Sunday, September 2, 2018 "'Do not let yourself be contaminated by this world' does not mean isolating oneself and closing oneself to reality. No. Here too it should not be an external but interior attitude, of substance: it means to be vigilant because our way of thinking and acting is not polluted by the worldly mentality, [...]

Saturday, September 1, 2018, #2 "Some enemy has done this." —Jesus, telling the Parable of the Wheat and the Tares, in Matthew 13:28. The expanded version: "The owner’s servants came to him and said, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Where then did the weeds come from?’ ‘An enemy did this,’ he replied. [...]

Saturday, September 1, 2018 Day #8: Vigano, Francis and Kim Davis Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano has just released a new statement (link to the full text, which is also below). This time, Vigano gives previously unknown background on the very controversial, several-minute private meeting on September 23, 2015 in Washington at the papal nunciature to the [...]

Friday, August 31, 2018 “Besides the Sun there may be moonlight, but if the Sun were removed there would be no Moon to see. What would Christianity now be if the Roman Church has in fact been destroyed?” – Letter 250, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien Day #7: Tolkien, and the Church our Mother As I [...]

Thursday, August 30, 2018 "I have told you this so that you might have peace in me. In the world you will have trouble, but take courage, I have conquered the world." —Jesus, speaking to his disciples in the Gospel of John 16:33 "The Church is called to serve the salvation of the world, for even [...]