The Moynihan Letters

    "The profiling of traditional Catholics by the intelligence services appears unjustified only if we mistakenly assume that the current rulers pursue the common good and the security of the nation; but it is amply justified when they have as their aim the imposition of globalist worship, which is intrinsically antichristic and irreconcilable with the Christian [...]

Above, Pope Francis meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin on July 4, 2019     Letter #49, 2023 Tuesday, February 21: Putin's Speech         Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered his annual "state of the nation" speech to the Russian people this morning in Moscow, praising the courage of Russia's soldiers, defending his decision to launch a "Special [...]

    Cardinal Arthur Roche, 72. He heads the Vatican's dicastery for the Church's liturgy.     “Perhaps the greatest sin that men of the Church can commit is to forget what the Church has always been.” —Italian Catholic writer and Vaticanist Andrea Gagliarducci in his “Monday Vatican” column published on February 6     “What was sacred to previous generations remains [...]

    Cardinal Arthur Roche, 72. He heads the Vatican's dicastery for the Church's liturgy. He met with Pope Francis this morning     "In the history of the liturgy there is growth and progress, but no rupture. What earlier generations held as sacred, remains sacred and great for us too, and it cannot be all of a sudden [...]

    The cover of a book on the Transfiguration of Christ, when Jesus shone with light before his Apostles. The Gospel story of the Transfiguration is the Gospel reading for the second Sunday of Lent. This is a sign of what the meaning of Lent truly is, as Pope Benedict XVI taught (see below)...The author of [...]

    Cardinal Arthur Roche, 72, a British cardinal who heads the liturgy office in the Roman Curia. Church legal scholars are debating whether he has the authority he is claiming to have to control and limit the celebration of the old Tridentine rite Mass in dioceses around the world, rather than leaving the matter to diocesan [...]

    Pope Benedict XVI distributes communion. This photo was taken while he was still Pope, more than 10 years ago; he resigned the papacy on February 11, 2013 (Photo by Paul Badde/EWTN)     “In the ecclesial communities arising from the Reformation [i.e., in the Protestant churches], the celebrations of the sacrament are called 'Supper.' In the Catholic [...]

Letter #43, 2023 Monday, February 13: 30 Years: The Untold Stories     Tomorrow we continue our online discussion of the 33-day pontificate of Albino Luciani, who took the name Pope John Paul I (August 26 to September 28, 1978, link).     It will be live, and you are invited to join and send questions (link below).     John [...]

    “What was sacred to previous generations remains sacred and great to us; it cannot suddenly be completely forbidden or even harmful.” —Pope Benedict XVI in Summorum Pontificum, July 7, 2007     "The intentions of the new... legislation... are becoming increasingly clear: the traditional liturgy (and teaching, because that is what it is ultimately about) is to be made [...]

     A brief letter on the terrible earthquake that occurred this morning in Turkey and Syria.     It includes the text of the telegram of Pope Francis to each country, and a report from a priest in Aleppo, Syria, Father Bahjat Elia Karakach, a Franciscan friar of the Custody of the Holy Land and a Latin-rite parish priest [...]