The Moynihan Letters

  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 [...]

"The glory of God is man alive, but the life of man is the vision of God." — St. Irenaeus, Against All Heresies, c. 180 A.D. in Lyons, France "The 'living man' intended by Irenaeus is Christ himself, in whose life we believers contemplate the Father's glory revealed in the Son." —Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon, in an [...]

Top, a moment from the controversial fund-raising event in Vienna's Cathedral of St. Stephen on Saturday, November 30. The figure in the center of the top photo, and in the lower photo, is Austrian singer Thomas Neuwirth, also known as Conchita Wurst. Neuwirth is an Austrian recording artist and "drag queen" known for his stage persona Conchita Wurst. He uses masculine [...]

Join Us On Giving Tuesday! Dear Friends, I hope everyone had a joy-filled Thanksgiving day weekend with their family and friends. My family gathered with my father to give thanks for our many years together. It is now the evening of "Giving Tuesday." The day was established in 2012 to focus [...]

CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz, Lo Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has published a new essay on an Italian website. Below an English translation Above, an artist's conception of a night-time aerial view of the "Abrahamic Family House" in Abu Dhabi. Each building is dedicated to one of the three monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity and [...]

Emanuela Orlandi (in the pink sweater) with her family and Pope John Paul II at about age 11 in late 1978 of 1979, not long after Pope John Paul II was elected Pope (he was elected in October 1978). Four years later, on June 22, 1983, Emanuela would be kidnapped and never heard from again. Now, [...]