Issue: February 2000

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From the Editor

It is high time the Angelus said something about the Internet. The issue's articles are introduced and some practical advice given on how to keep computer use under control at work and at home.

Pastoral Letters: At Start of Vatican II

Letter of Archbishop Lefebvre pubished in Avis du Mois (11th October 1962), the monthly letter of the Superior general of the 5,200-member Congregation of the Holy Ghost. The experienced missionary priest gives advice to the missionaries on how to live their vocation fully.

Construct Your Reality

"This is an attempt to locate the phenomena of the Internet, of hyperspace, and of virtual reality within established principles and the larger phenomenon of our cultural regression. How must a Catholic approach the Internet, a thing designed to remove things from their natural habitat...," author Matthew Childs explains.

Rage Against the Machine Nine Pitfalls of the Internet

What has been the fate of the word in the past seven years since the Internet has transformed human communication, finance, commerce, learning, and correspondence? Has the Internet led to the beginnings of a transformation of man himself? Has it changed our psychology, the way we know, and, ultimately, has it changed the object of human knowledge?

Questions & Answers

Fr. Scott answers: When a lapsed Catholic gets married in a Protestant ceremony, is the marriage valid? Is it better to say "Holy Spirit" or "Holy Ghost" when speaking of the Third Person of the Blessed Trinity?

The New Mass

What better way to understand the ambiguous and ecumenicist nature of the New Mass than to pay attention to what its creators themselves said in explanation of it: The MJCF examines the original Institutio Generalis on transubstantiation, the propitiatory character of the sacrifice, the priesthood, and the definition of the Mass. 

Jubilee 2000

A short history of the Church's Holy Years during the 16th century, culminating in that of the 1600 Jubilee, the most splendid of all celebrated till then. (Reprinted from St. John's Bulletin, No. 60.)

Heresy in the Making, Part II

Part 2 of the history of the origins of the Americanist heresy in the American Church, focusing on the post-1860 cabala of Irish-American churchmen, chief among whom were James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop John Ireland, Bishop John Joseph Keane, and Bishop Denis Joseph O'Connell...