Issue: August 1986

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From the Editor...

We are most pleased to announce that Archbishop Lefebvre's book, Open Letter to Confused Catholics, is now available from The Angelus Press...

The Archbishop Speaks: Interview with Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre

It is very dangerous to go to the New Mass regularly, each week, because the New Mass is not some accidental change, but it is a whole orientation, a new definition of the Mass...

The Cross

A fine meditation on the Cross of Christ and one's own.

Letter from a Theology Student

When she began to go blind, the author of the letter was forced to consider the essential questions of life and try to find the one necessary factor. The path she traveled was a long and certainly not everyday one, leading her from extreme Modernism to the Society of St. Pius X, and to the one undivided truth...

I Am Real

This account of a so-called "retreat" for Catholic teenagers is by a teacher who is a member of the English traditionalist organization, the Young Roman Catholics. Many parents of children in contemporary Catholic schools have little idea of what takes place on some of the "retreats" organized for children. It should not be imagined that the retreat described here is in any way exceptional.

A Defense of Catholic Tradition

Two English traditional Catholics review Archbishop Lefebvre's recently published Open Letter to Confused Catholics.

Death's Underground Abode

An account of St. Maximilian Kolbe's last days, from Don Bosco's Madonna.

On Eternal Life

Quotations contrasting the modern Church's attitude concerning eternal life with Catholic truth.

Letters to the Editor

Fr. Byman takes exception to the article by Fr. Charles Coughlin published last month, "Pius XII's Tragic Mistake." He corrects factual errors and sets the record straight about Pius XII.

Christian Education of Youth

The third and final part of Pope Pius XI's encyclical, Divini Illius Magistri.

The Transfiguration

A poem by James M. Hayes for this month's feast.

Ask Me...

Father Carl answers questions about bilocation, the object of other religions' worship, and a Catholic hospital that performs contraceptive sterilizations with the approbation of the diocesan bishop.