Issue: November 1989

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Father Cooper writes...

Marriage. Of all the problems we priests meet with, the most difficult, the most exasperating, and the saddest have to do with this institution.

Interview with Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre

The conclusion of the interview "One Year Later" from Fideliter.

The Shroud of Turin

The following article is the first in a series that examines the Shroud in depth: its history and description; science's investigations; and finally the actual wounds.

The Second Coming of Christ

What are the signs, the events in human history that the Bible foretells must precede the end of the world and the second coming of Jesus Christ? A sermon by Fr. Gregory Foley.

Dissolving the Unity of the Faith

Dr. Malcolm Brennan analyzes a recent speech by Archbishop Rembert Weakland for insight into the Church's present state.

Points to Ponder...

Interesting reflections of an educated Austrian Catholic about history from men's perspective, and from God's...

Girls Summer Camp 89

The scrapbook from the girls' summer camps!

Latin Requiem in Novus Ordo?

T. E. McAlister loves the True Mass. His one greatest wish is that the Latin Requiem Mass be said over him when he dies. But three letters to his local ordinary, the Cardinal-Archbishop of Wellington, New Zealand, and his letter to Cardinal Ratzinger in Rome all met with refusal. "Why?" Mr. McAlister asks.

Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre: Sixty years a priest

A list of other well-known churchmen and the length of their priesthood.

A Puzzle

An English reader ponders an ongoing mystery in the Church: Why then, is it that only the ancient Roman Rite is so utterly TABOO?

Traditional Redemptorist Foundation

By God's grace, in 1987 Archbishop Lefebvre encouraged the re-establishment of a traditional foundation of Redemptorists. The monastery was formed on the feast of St. Alphonsus, August 2nd 1988, to live the rules which the Saint had codified and which had remained in vigor from 1749 until the modernists finally suppressed them twenty years ago. An update.

A Soldier Who Had Faith

This is a story of a man's sacrifice during World War II.

News Briefs

A retired priest's tale of Christ becomes inspirational best seller, and other stories from the RNS.

Ask Me...

Father Carl answers questions about Communion in the hand, the name "Jesus Christ," and Protestant ending to the Our Father, and attendance at Byzantine Catholic Masses.