Issue: December 1990

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Editorial

We need, perhaps, to ask ourselves if for us also Christmas is not simply an especially festive birthday celebration, if it has not lost the sacredness characteristic of the great feasts of the Church...

The Archbishop Speaks

A sermon for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, 1987. Archbishop Lefebvre focuses on the spirituality of the priests of the SSPX.

Econe

The continuation of Fr. Schmidberger's history of Ecône.

On the End of the World

A sermon by St. Gregory the Great preached in St. Peter's Basilica late 6th or early 7th century.

The Fruit of Abortion

The lives of millions of unborn boys and girls depend on one man: David H. Souter...

Liturgy & Devotion

On this and that.

Reflections on the Manger

A mother's view.

Who Is Schismatic? Part 2

It cannot be denied that Mgr. Lefebvre has disobeyed the Holy Father in a very serious matter, one that involves his divine prerogative of ruling the Church upon earth. What grounds are there, then, for arguing that Archbishop Lefebvre is not a schismatic?

Ambrose Observes

In this season of great joy, allow me to focus this month on a very special joy, one too often taken for granted by us in the hustle and bustle of daily life, but one of God's special gifts and most appropriate for commendation in Christmastide—"the beasts."

Questions and Answers

Father Laiseny answers questions about bi-ritualists and the duty of keeping one's virginity till marriage for men as well as women.

The Difference

A poem about prayer: Ask, seek, knock!

...stultorum infinitus est numerus

Our view of the religious news in the headlines of the Catholic News Service.