Issue: April 2000
Pastoral Letters: True Updating
Archbishop Lefebvre's pastoral letter published in 1965 to the Holy Ghost Fathers on what is needed for them to undergo a genuine "aggiornamento" turns into a complete program of what is required for leading the religious life in the modern world.
On Modern Technology and Peace
Timely and prophetic is the 1953 Christmas Message of Pope Pius XII on how peace may be established in the modern world, including a fine analysis of the particular obstacles to the Light of the World posed by the "technological spirit" and modern materialism.
The Semi-Catholic Catechism of the Catholic Church
A look at some of the passages in the new Catechism of the Catholic Church that must invariably alarm an instructed Catholic. Topics include gnosticism, evolution, supercessionism, indifferentism, ecumenism, homosexuality, Church-State relations, and internationalism.
Questions and Answers
Couldn't Catholics satisfy their Sunday obligation at a schismatic Orthodox ceremony even before Vatican II? How can one really be damned for oversleeping on Sunday or eating meat on Friday? Fr. Peter Scott replies.
Can the Tridentine Mass Be Abolished?
An official letter of the Holy See (Protocol No. 947/99/1—full text appended) asserts that Pope Pius V's Bull Quo Primum promulgating the Tridentine Missal was abrogated when Paul VI promulgated the New Mass. Is that so? Father Patrick de La Rocque examines the question.
Antiquated Modernists: Why Modernists are the Dinosaurs
"Modernism is not 'modern' at all, but rather, a type of neo-primitivism..." Philosopher Peter Chojnowski formulates and defends a provocative thesis—Traditional Catholicism has every right to be considered "modern," and Modernism, in all its contemporary forms, ought to be considered antiquated...
Heresy Blossoms Like a Rose
Dr. Walsh continues his history of the origins of Americanism in the Catholic Church in the United States with the story of its prevalence at the end of the 19th century.
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