Issue: August 1978

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The Archbishop Speaks

The 1978 Ordination Sermon given at Ecône, Switzerland, on 29 June 1978, the Feast of SS. Peter and Paul on the occasion of the ordination of eighteen priests and twenty-two subdeacons.

Letter from Econe

Mr. Eugene Berry gives an eye-witness report of the 1978 ordination ceremony at Ecône.

St. Edmund Campion, Pt. 1

The life of English martyr St. Edmund Campion, first of two parts.

On Ecumenism

The departure from Tradition of the teaching of the Second Vatican Council on ecumenism is highlighted in a matching of quotations from Conciliar documents with authoritative teaching of the Roman Catholic Church.

The Assumption

An excerpt from the Bull of Pope Pius XII proclaiming the dogma of the Assumption.

The Ordinations Photos

Photographs of the Ordinations on the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, 1978.

"Not Ashamed to Be My Kind of Rebel"

An Australian priest's statement published in the Queensland, Australia, Courier-Mail explaining why he says only the supposedly banned Latin Tridentine Mass and not the New Mass in English.

The Church Militant

News of tradition at home and abroad, including purchase of St. Mary's, Kansas!

Modernism in Practice

A look at the news in the liberal Catholic press.

News Items

• Congratulations, Joey Scamardi • Pope Paul VI comments on ordinations at Ecône • Hugh McGovern, R.I.P. • Is there enough support for a Catholic boarding school?

Sacrilege

It is an undeniable fact that the validity of the orders of priests ordained under the new rite is questionable.

Ask Me

Father Carl fields questions about baptizing aborted babies, the Spanish Inquisition, Paul VI drugged or captive, and more.