Issue: October 1999

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Pastoral Letters: Necessity of Prayer

Archbishop Lefebvre's final pastoral letter written as Bishop of Dakar on "the value and the efficacy of prayer." Also, his last letter to the Holy Ghost Fathers, which he devoted "to the virtue which today risks most easily being forgotten: humility."

Catholic Education, Pt. 9

As regards the teaching of purity, it is a mistake for parents to bring up children as it was done 20 or 30 years ago when the nation still maintained a certain moral consensus against impurity, and immorality was not thrown so openly at everybody. This is why parents must protect, form, and arm their children...

Jubilee 2000: A History of Holy Years

Continuation of a History of Holy Years: The Jubilees during the Great Schism, and the themes illustrated on the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica.

A Homily for the Holy Year 1975

The SSPX's pilgrimage to Rome during the Jubilee Year 1975 was fraught with significance: the allegiance of Archbishop Lefebvre to eternal Rome even as modernist Rome was busy shutting its doors on the work of Catholic Tradition.The Archbishop's sermon at St. John Lateran.

The Ecumenical Jubilee

Modernists are preparing a very ecumenical jubilee for the Year 2000, opened with the "Holy Door" of the Second Vatican Council. Imbued with the spirit of Assisi, they wish to celebrate a false peace, established on the union of all religions and on the Church's reiterated demands for forgiveness...

Catholicism, Protestantism & Capitalism

Why must there be a inevitable clash between a Catholic social order and capitalist one? Why must each contend within the soul of a single man and within the soul of a political community for absolute and exclusive predominance? The reason that there is an inevitable clash between the two systems...is on account of the fact that capitalism is not merely a particular instrument for the providing of goods and services...

Germigny-des-Pres

An art-historial tour of the Church of the Holy Trinity of Germigny-des-Prés in central France near Orleans, the eldest church of the Carolingian period (9th-11th centuries) in France.

Questions & Answers

Fr. Scott answers questions about playing guitar for a livelihood, signing up for the SSPX Jubilee Year Pilgrimage, and whether it would be better for a nun in a modernist community to be laicized.