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Unravelling the Mysteries of the Vatican |
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03/11/2009 (2:30)
On Tuesday, October 27, Thomas More College hosted a Vatican forum a few steps from St. Peter's at Centro Russia Ecumenica, where Dr. Robert Moynihan, founder and editor of Inside the Vatican magazine, spoke about “Unravelling the Mysteries of the Vatican.” Elaborating on why he has worked to spread an understanding of the Vatican, Dr. Moynihan stated:
“I thought that people were concentrating in their news reports on superficial matters and sometimes emphasizing things that were peripheral. So there were stories that gave a distorted view of what the Church's faith was - what the important issues were - and I thought 'I'm going to try to go in a bit deeper.'”
Dr. Moynihan did indeed provide information beyond the superficial and peripheral to his listeners and spoke, among other things, about the history of the Vatican, why it is here in Rome, the Congregations and Councils that fill its buildings, and the role that art and architecture play in the faith of the Church:
“The faith of the Church is incarnated and incarnational. Our whole concept of reality is that we are connected to the ultimate reality of God in a very real way, through the incarnation of His Son who became man. Therefore, we have a respect for the natural world, which he entered into and embraced. And we have a love of the things of the senses. We don't just have to eliminate the things we see and hear and touch. And so, as we represent in this world the aspirations and hopes we have of the sacred and divine, and the memories of the life of Jesus, and we show pictures of that and sculptures of that and mosaics of that, and we sing about that and we chant about that, its all a drawing us, by means of natural things, towards supernatural things.”
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