Issue: January 2000
PASTORAL LETTERS
In "Fidelity to the Religious Life" the Archbishop quotes at length an Allocution of Paul VI to the Brazilian College on the primacy of the supernatural life in the accomplishment of their duties and the fulfillment of their vocation (dated April 28, 1964).
Holy Ghost: The Craftsman of Souls
The aim of philosopher Peter Chojnowski's essay is "to identify the specific nature of the Gifts of the Holy Ghost, indicating how these perfections, provided to the soul first in Baptism and then brought to completion in Confirmation, enable the soul to achieve a 'divine connaturality,' an empathy with the very being of the Triune God." In passing, he explains why seven...
Relinquish All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here
The modern nursing home can never take the place of the family. Mainly this is so because it has deficiencies in three areas which are fulfilled in the healthy family; that is, it is lacking in charity, justice, and sacrifice—the footings and foundation in every good home. The author touches on the most important deficiencies of the modern nursing home or "manor" and discusses their roots and remedies.
The 1988 Consecrations: Canonical Study Part II
Si Si No No, #36: Second of a three-part study explaining the canonical justification for the episcopal consecrations without papal mandate performed by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre on June 30, 1988.
Questions & Answers
What is the authority of Canon Law? Is it true that the Church frowns on the use of Gothic vestments, preferring the Roman cut? Fr. Peter Scott answers.
A Politically Incorrect Monk
A 17th-century Capuchin, the Servant of God Fr. Mark d'Aviano, who was in the thick of some of Christendom's most crucial battles against the Turks from Vienna to Buda, is at the center of a controversy over the cause of his canonization: Protestants, Muslims, and ecumenists protest, and the Vatican listens!
Book Review: I Kissed Dating Goodbye
Reviewer Fr. Brandler uses Joshua Harris's book to discuss today's cultural "dating shame," the principles of true courtship, the pitfalls of shallow relationships and how to avoid them, and how Catholics can best prepare themselves if they are sure the sacrament of matrimony is for them.
Heresy in the Making, Part 1
The liberal heresy that threatened to permeate the Church in the United States under the rubric of Americanism must be examined...root and branch in every domain. The infestation was fostered by a post-1860 cabala of Irish-American churchmen. The word Cabala is chosen deliberately to describe a small, strategically placed group who conspired to implement a hidden and basically un-Catholic agenda...
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