The Moynihan Letters

    At a closed-door meeting with the Italian bishops during their Plenary Assembly May 20 in Rome, Pope Francis advised against admitting homosexuals to the seminary, and reportedly used a slang term to refer to homosexual behavior which many in Italy and around the world found offensive in his answer... (Photo Credit: Vatican Media)     "There is [...]

www.carloacutis.com     Blessed Carlo Acutis (May 3, 1991-October 12, 2006) died of leukemia at the age of just 15. He was noted for his cheerfulness, computer skills, and deep devotion to the Eucharist, which became a core theme of his life. He was beatified by Pope Francis on October 10, 2020, two days before the 14th anniversary of his death. [...]

(Credit: Rudolf Gehrig/EWTN News)     Cardinal Victor Fernandez, head of the Vatican's Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, in the Vatican Press Room at noon today, May 17, in Rome. Fernandez presented new Vatican regulations for evaluating apparitions and other mystical phenomena which will take place on Sunday, May 19, the Feast of [...]

    Austrian priest Joachim Heimerl, incardinated in the diocese of Vienna, Austria. He has begun to write regularly against the doctrinal deviations he sees in the Church today, warning against error and heresy. The key element is each case, he argues, is a departure from tradition...     "Let's remain Catholic and hold on to the traditional faith. [...]

    I received a call the other day from my son, a fine young writer, an artist with words, who is living in Los Angeles, where he studied film-making at Loyola Marymount, and has just celebrated one year of marriage.     He is working a full-time job while trying to establish himself as a screen writer — [...]

    Today is the day after the Feast of the Ascension, celebrated yesterday, Thursday, May 9.     It is also the day after the day that Russia celebrates as the end of World War II — May 9, celebrated in Russia as "Victory Day."     (Note: Germany's armed forces surrendered unconditionally to the Allies on May 7, 1945. The [...]

   The Church of St. Nicholas of Tolentino, the Armenian church in Rome, in early April 2024. It is currently undergoing restoration    The interior of the church during an Armenian rite liturgy    Cardinal Gregory Peter XV Agagianian (1895-1971). Agagianian was elected at the age of 42, on November 30, 1937, during the reign of Pope Pius [...]

    The Vatican on December 18 published a text, Fiducia supplicans (link) which may go down as the most controversial and most ecumenically damaging document of Pope Francis' pontificate.     At some point it will be necessary for the good of the entire Christian world, to explain more fully the genesis and drafting of this text, but [...]