Issue: November 2025
Letter from the District Superior
Fr. John Fullerton District Superior, USA Dear Reader, Sacred Scripture is “a letter, written by our heavenly Father, and transmitted by the sacred writers to the human...
“All Things Continue as They Were”? A Catholic Approach to Reading Scripture
A Catholic Approach to Reading Scripture By Fr. Ian Andrew Palko, SSPX In Unitatis Redintegratio , the Second Vatican Council upended orthodox ecclesiology by asserting that an...
Exploring the Mysterious Language of the Bible
Medieval theologians like Augustine, Gregory, and Bernard interpreted Scripture through layered readings—literal, allegorical, and moral—to uncover its spiritual depths while remaining faithful to Christian doctrine. Their disciplined methods transformed biblical study into a source of insight, moral guidance, and devotion.
Mary as the “New Eve,” the “Ark of the Covenant,” and the “Immaculate Conception”
Scriptural Proofs and Biblical Symbolism By Angeline Tan The uninitiated (and often Protestant) reader who reads the Holy Bible (Old and New Testaments) from cover to cover (and usually...
The Facts of Fiction in the Bible
By Dr. Jonathan Wanner Every school urchin learns that fiction is untrue and non-fiction is factual. Yet the Bible, despite being predominantly historical, occasionally blends material...
Biblical Interpretation in Crisis: Excluding Allegorical Interpretation Among Modernist Exegetes
Excluding Allegorical Interpretation Among Modernist Exegetes By Dr. Robert Lazu Kmita In The Catholic Controversy , 1 a treatise published only after his death, Saint Francis de...
Scripture and the Little Learning of the Literalist
The author warns lay Catholics against rigid or simplistic interpretations of Scripture that disregard the Church’s authority and the limits of human understanding. He urges humility, prudence, and obedience to ecclesial guidance in biblical interpretation, lest careless literalism distort truth and discredit both faith and reason.
Biblical Societies
By Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre Excerpt from Against the Heresies (editions Fideliter, 1994), Angelus Press, 2025 ed., pp. 213-215. In the fourth part of the...
Our Life in Tradition
By Megan and James Skees 1. When did you come to Tradition, and what brought you to it? Megan: Both my husband and I were lapsed Catholics. I had grown up in the Novus Ordo with no...
Sermon on the Seven Effects of Sacred Scripture
By Denis the Carthusian, the Ecstatic Doctor Translated by Zachary Thomas and Gerhard Eger In this sermon commenting on the Gospel pericope of the Seventh Sunday after Trinity...
The Thought of St. Thomas on Scriptural Inspiration
By Fr. Thomas Pégues, O.P., “La Revue Thomiste” (1895), translated by Fr. Paul Robinson In re-reading the articles of the great debate of the past two years on Sacred...
The Problematic Reform of the Post-Vatican II Lectionary
By Matthew Hazell The order of readings at Mass in the Novus Ordo is often held up as one of the crown jewels of the post-Vatican II liturgical reforms. One of its designers, Dom Adrian...
Christ the Teacher: The Kingdom’s Life
Life in Christ’s Kingdom requires childlike dependence on God, honest compassion that seeks the good of the straying brother, and regal forgiveness that mirrors the immeasurable mercy God shows us. By embracing these three attitudes, disciples learn to live as true citizens of the Kingdom and avoid the just consequences that come from refusing them.
Questions and Answers
By Fr. Paul Robinson, SSPX How do Catholics interpret Sacred Scripture differently from Protestants? Catholics, like Protestants, believe that Sacred Scripture is inspired by God and...
The Last Word
Fr. Yves le Roux District Superior of Canada Jealousy and Mercy: The Lesson from Holy Scripture Holy Scripture is a sacred history that is anything but a history of saints. It is rather...
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