Catholic Exchange

Support for our Pope — From the East

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• Friday, April 2nd, 2010
• Dr. Robert Moynihan

I am with a group of pilgrims spending Holy Week in Rome, and have little time to write.
We just attended a moving Holy Thursday liturgy at St. John Lateran; Pope Benedict XVI delivered a beautiful sermon about true life… Read More

Why These Attacks?

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• Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
• Dr. Robert Moynihan

As I write, it is a cool, clear March evening in Rome, and a luminous full moon shines over the Eternal City at the beginning of Holy Week.
But the situation of the world is not holy.
In front of… Read More

Benedict’s Papacy In Crisis?

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• Friday, March 12th, 2010
• Dr. Robert Moynihan

Wednesday in Rome, Pope Benedict XVI gave a fascinating talk containing important insights into the ideas and principles guiding his pontificate.
And this talk, given at his regular Wednesday Audience, came as a series of terrible crises continues to strike… Read More

A Leader Emerges

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• Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
• Dr. Robert Moynihan

It was a dramatic sight: tens of thousands of Americans — and foreigners — marching peacefully through the streets of Washington DC on behalf of life on Friday, January 22.
It took about two hours for all the marchers to… Read More

Pope Pius XII Declared Venerable

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• Monday, December 21st, 2009
• Dr. Robert Moynihan

In a dramatic move, after long hesitation, Pope Benedict XVI has signed a decree declaring Pope Pius XII — the Pope who led the Church during the Second World War and has been repeatedly accused by many Jewish and progressive… Read More

“A Long-Hidden Plan”

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• Friday, December 4th, 2009
• Dr. Robert Moynihan

We live in a busy, troubled world, and it is tempting to take time here to denounce the “evils of the day” – apostasy from the faith, sins of many types, false teachings from many pulpits, unjust laws from many… Read More

Fragments of an Analysis

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• Friday, November 20th, 2009
• Dr. Robert Moynihan

“In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe — and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.  —Blaise Pascal.
Lights and Shadows
And so it comes to the time of leaving, and of summing up.

Who… Read More

Kazan and Fatima

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• Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
• Dr. Robert Moynihan

The icon we are going to see is the icon of Our Lady of Kazan.

It is the icon which was kept by Pope John Paul II in his own apartment for 11 years, from 1993 to 2004. I personally… Read More

Out of the Depths

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• Friday, November 13th, 2009
• Dr. Robert Moynihan

Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD. Lord, hear my prayer…” —King David, Psalm 130.
World Premiere in Moscow
It was called “A Song of Ascents,” and the song did rise, inexorably, from a first, lonely,… Read More

A Walk By Night

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• Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
• Dr. Robert Moynihan

I am in Russia — not Rome. Why?

Because, born in the middle of the 20th century, no country has seemed more mysterious, more romantic, and, yes, more vaguely sinister, to me than Russia: Holy Russia, cultured Russia, the Russia… Read More