The Moynihan Letters

    Letter #105, 2023, Friday, June 16: Viganò on Today's (June 16) Catholic Protest at Los Angeles Dodger Stadium     Here is a long and powerful letter from Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, 82, on a Catholic protest march in Los Angeles which will take place later today, in about eight hours from this writing.     Today is the [...]

Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano (CNS photo/Bob Roller)     Letter #104, 2023, Friday, June 16: Viganò on D.C. Mass (on June 14)     Here is a letter from Archbishop Viganò on a Mass celebrated in Washington D.C. two days ago. —RM Support the Moynihan Letters     Archbishop Viganò. Washington [...]

    The remark by Israeli "futurologist" Yuval Noah Harari (link) that "AI (artificial intelligence) can even write a new Bible" has gone viral in the past month.     Harari made the remarks in a public conversation in Lisbon, Portugal, almost one month ago, on May 19, 2023. (link)     The fact that Harari works closely with Klaus Schwab, [...]

Tyrese Gibson by Brian Raimondi, CC BY 3.0, (link)     Letter #102, 2023, Friday, June 16: Hollywood     A Hollywood actor, Tyrese Gibson, says that Hollywood and the entertainment industry are trying to "normalize" the devil, mentioning him and depicting him "in every video and signs and symbols."     Full story below. —RM     [...]

Bishop Athanasius Schneider (photo credit | Edward Pentin)     Letter #101, 2023, Friday, June 16: Bishop Athanasius Schneider: New Synod norms “undermine the hierarchical structure of the Church”      Many Catholics, as they have watched the multi-year process leading up to the upcoming Bishops' Synod on Synodality, to be held in Rome this coming October [...]

    Letter #100, 2023, Wednesday, June 6: Pope Francis undergoes surgery in Rome     Pope Francis underwent surgery today in Rome and the Vatican has reported that the three-hour surgery was without complications.     He will remain in the hospital for several days. Let us keep Pope Francis in our prayers for a swift and complete recovery. [...]

    "In the first book, Theophilus, I dealt with all that Jesus did and taught until the day he was taken up, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. He presented himself alive to them by many proofs after he had suffered, appearing to them during forty days and [...]

    "The way of this creator is not the way of power but of humility, not of conquest but of sacrifice, and his sacrifice gives us a path back home. If we follow that path, we can come back into communion again, and be as we were intended to be, which is to say holy — [...]

    Also today, a homily by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, 82, for today, Saturday within the Octave of the Feast of the Ascension; the homily has been posted in Italy also in French, Spanish and Italian (link).     The homily is his reflection on today's epistle, a passage from Revelation which contains a vision of "the Woman" [...]

    Today, a link to an article by "Simplicius."     The piece goes into some detail concerning the (possibly) poor performance of the American Patriot anti-missile defense system against numerous Russian missiles of various types, including several very fast Russian "Kinzhal" hypersonic missiles, launched against Ukraine on the evening of Tuesday, May 16.     The piece explores the [...]