The Moynihan Letters

    Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, 82, two days ago, on March 14, wrote a new message (link), which we re-publish below.     In 2019, I spent a number of days with the archbishop, and during the "Covid year" of 2020, produced the book Finding Viganò.     You may purchase the book at this link.—RM              ***     P.S. Inside the [...]

Archbishop Paul R. Gallagher, Vatican foreign minister (File photo: CNS photo/Cia Pak, United Nations)     "One of the things that the Chinese and the Catholic Church and the Holy See have in common is that we don’t think in months, or even in years. We’re thinking in terms of a much longer time..." —Archbishop [...]

    Letter #72, 2023 Wednesday, March 15: The Withdrawal of the Logos     This letter is the first of several "repeats" which I plan to send out from time to time.     I wrote and sent this letter out on October 27, 2015 (just at the end of the Bishops' Synod on "the role and mission of the [...]

    Pope Francis greets Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State (File Photo: CNS photo/Vatican Media)     Letter #71, 2023 Wednesday, March 15: Parolin         Just two months after the first German Pope in the modern history of the Catholic Church was laid to rest, Church officials in Pope Benedict’s native land on Saturday, March 11, voted overwhelmingly [...]

    A screenshot of an article from La Nacion in Buenos Aires, Argentina, showing Pope Francis being interviewed a few days ago by the paper's Vatican correspondent, Elizabeth Piqué (link). The Spanish subtitle under the image is citing what the Pope is saying: "Gender ideology, at this time, is one of the ideological colonizations (that is) [...]

    German Cardinal Walter Kasper has just turned 90 (on March 5, yesterday). Though he is often thought of as being a "progressive," Kasper is also continuing to warn his fellow Catholics leaders in Germany that the "Synodal Way" cannot "re-invent the Church," that the Church's perennial doctrines and traditions must be respected....     "Beloved, while I [...]

    Letter #68, 2023 Monday, March 6: Kondrusiewicz         Archbishop Tadeusz Kondusiewicz, 77 (link), was released from a hospital in Minsk, Belarus, on March 3 (three days ago) after undergoing several weeks of treatment for a malignant tumor (the tumor was removed in an operation on February 8).     Deo gratias ("to God be thanks").     May his health [...]

    Facing us, German Archbishop Georg Gänswein, 66, speaking recently with an Italian television journalist. Gänswein, the personal secretary of Pope Benedict XVI until Benedict's death on December 31 at the age of 96, will meet with Pope Francis in the morning to receive news of what his new role in the Church will be... (link) [...]

Old Town Wittenberg, Germany with a view of All Saints' Church, commonly referred to as Schlosskirche (Castle Church).     "It was evident that the quarrel had gone beyond the possibility of human control." —The Catholic Encyclopedia, under the heading of the First Ecumenical Council (link)     Letter #66, 2023 Friday, March 3: Nicaea         Just a [...]

    Letter #65, 2023 Thursday, March 2: Join Me Live!          I will be going live with Sergii Bortnyk in Kyiv, Ukraine, and Peter Anderson, one of the world's leading experts in Catholic-Orthodox relations, in Seattle, Washington in just a few minutes, at 11:00 a.m. Eastern.     Click the video below to join us live on YouTube. [...]