Issue: February 2001
Pastoral Letters: February 21, 1968
A letter omitted from the first edition of Archbishop Lefebvre's Pastoral Letters and newly translated. The letter dates from February 21, 1968. The Archbishop reflects on the nature of heresy, its causes, and its manifestations in modern times.
The Excellence of the Roman Mass
An excerpt from Dom Ferdinand Cabrol's masterful defense of the use of the present Tridentine Mass (against the antiquarians eventually condemned by Pius XII), The Excellence of the Roman Mass.
A Liturgical Dictionary
The parts of the Mass are presented in order with a brief explanation.
Dom Ferdinand Michel Cabrol, O.S.B.
A biographical notice about Abbot Cabrol, a Benedictine of Solesmes who was made the first abbot of a Benedictine foundation in England, and one of the leading [traditional] lights of the early liturgical movement.
Book Review: "Usury"
Interest rates up; interest rates down. Thanks to Alan Greenspan. A devastating essay that demonstrates the profound evil and irrationality of the modern financial system.
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
Fr. Scott addresses two questions: the morality of surgery for an ectopic pregnancy and studying on Sundays.
Letter to Bishop William Weigand
A new convert to the Catholic Church is alarmed by goings-on in his local cathedral and asks his Bishop for an explanation.
What's in the Name-Calling?
A priest of the SSPX reflects: "We can all fall into fits of criticism and bickering, because that's how our culture has programmed us. We are more influenced by the world than by the Catholic Church in that respect. But just because we have a weakness, what gives us the right to excuse it and to make no apologies or efforts to correct our mistakes?"...
Declaration of the Lisieux Pilgrims
In numbers twice as large as last year, 3,200 French traditional Catholics gathered at the Basilica of St. Theresa of Lisieux (Oct. 14, 2000) in Normandy to re-declare their appeal that the Latin Mass be fully restored to the Catholic Church and her priests.