Issue: January 1989
From the Desk of the Editor
In offering indult Latin Masses, have the American bishops really changed? Do they really want to be friends with tradition, or are they just seeking to destroy any traditional movement?...
Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre: A Living Saint
A guest editorial about the episcopal consecrations by Fr. Paul Wickens, which first appeared in the New Jersey Catholic News.
His Beatitude Patriarch Josyf Slipyi 1892-1984
The biograhy (in four parts) of Patriarch Slipyi, a martyr and confessor of the Ukrainian Catholic Church and figurehead in the confrontation between Catholicism and Communism.
God's Ways Are Not Our Ways
Fr. Schmidberger, Superior General of the SSPX, considers: Was Archbishop Lefebvre a man predestined for his present mission as savior of the Catholic priesthood and of the Mass of all time, and as the herald of the social kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ?
The Good Ship "Courtship"
The following article is taken, in substance, from a sermon by Father Frederick Nelson, Shrine of Our Lady of the Prairies, given for the benefit of his young people, but I should think also for the benefit of those already married.
A Book Review: Archbishop Lefebvre and the Vatican
Dr. Malcolm Brennan reviews Father Laisney's compilation of the statements and positions of the leading actors in the drama between the Vatican and Ecône.
News Briefs
Fr. Matthew Fox and Fr. Curran are in the headlines again, as well as priest shortages and persecuted priests—from the columns of the Religious News Service.
Sisters of the SSPX Christ the King Novitiate
Several months have elapsed since our last letter—months full of special graces for the Church and our Congregation.
Letters to the Editor
We appreciate it when our readers send items of interest, or suggestions or criticisms, or their thoughts on a particular subject. The following news items were sent by a reader in North Carolina, and is taken from Touchstone (Summer/Fall 1988), followed by the reader's insightful reflections about the role of pain, and in particular its absence, in modern life.
Thoughts of Cardinal Newman...
...on the Mother of God, our Blessed Lady.
"Joyfulness of the heart
Some humor.
Ask Me...
Father Carl answers questions about ladies' covering their head in church, and Friday abstinence.
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