April 19, 2012 -- 7th Anniversary of the Election of Pope Benedict XVI (Note: I am posting these emails on the web. You may view them at the link: https://www.moynihanreport.com/. If anyone would feel moved to support the development of this site, and the associated Inside the Vatican site, www.insidethevatican.com (new site under development, to be [...]
Easter Sunday, April 8, 2012 "Christ Is Risen, As He Said" Rome was grey and cool this morning, but the sun broke out just before the consecration at Pope Benedict's Easter Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square, bathing the square in light, and heat. (Some 200,000 people gathered in and near St. Peter's Square for Easter [...]
Thursday, April 5, 2012 "It is not for man to seek, or even to believe in God. He has only to refuse to believe in everything that is not God. This refusal does not presuppose belief. It is enough to recognize, what is obvious to any mind, that all the goods of this world, past, present, [...]
Sunday, April 1, 2012 “So it is ourselves that we must spread under Christ’s feet, not coats or lifeless branches or shoots of trees, matter which wastes away and delights the eye only for a few brief hours. “But we have clothed ourselves with Christ’s grace, or with the whole Christ ... so let us spread [...]
Thursday 10 ISRAELI RELIGIOUS LEADERS AT THE VATICAN Dialogue is essential for religious leaders in the Holy Land, “a place full of memories sacred to our traditions,” but a place that each day faces challenges to living together in harmony, Benedict XVI told religious leaders from Israel. The “movement toward reconciliation requires courage and vision, as [...]
POPE BENEDICT: NO SEATBELT The Vatican said BENEDICT XVI greeted with a smile the news that a German citizen had filed a complaint against him for not wearing a seat belt in his popemobile. The Vatican spokesman, Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, said that the complaint was not being taken seriously at the Vatican. Father Lombardi said [...]
Pope Benedict XVI seated in the Sala Clementina in the Apostolic Palace on December 22 to deliver his annual Christmas message to the Roman Curia. The Pope said the "faith fatigue" seen in various areas of Church life today contrasts sharply with the faith and joy he witnessed during World Youth Day in Madrid [...]
Pope Benedict XVI arrives for a meeting with cardinals and bishops during an ordinary public consistory at the Vatican February 21, 2011 (CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano via Reuters) Note: On December 28, Sandro Magister, a veteran and respected Italian “Vaticanist” based in Rome, released an unsigned article saying that Pope Benedict will hold a Consistory [...]
On September 22 in Berlin, the German pontiff, who had been born in 1927 and grown up after 1933 under National Socialism, gave a profound reflection on the sources of law. The tensions of that moment — a German native speaking to the government of his country, a Catholic Pope speaking to a secular legislature, a [...]
The Rebibbia prison on the outskirts of Rome is known for having hosted a historic meeting: that between John Paul II and Ali Agca, who had tried to assassinate him. On December 18, another Pope came to visit that prison: Benedict XVI. He met with the inmates, conversed with them, took questions from them, and prayed [...]
