Issue: August 2000

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Pastoral Letters: Fidelity

"It is high time for every one to examine himself on this beautiful virtue of fidelity..." A Letter of Archbishop Lefebvre of the year 1967 to the Congregation of the Holy Spirit.

The Heresy of Sola Scriptura, Pt. 1

The first of a two-part Open Letter expounding eleven reasons why the Protestant principle of sola scriptura is heresy. Its writing was instigated by a challenge to the Catholic Faith by the husband of a recent convert from the Jehovah's Witnesses to the Protestant sect, the Church of Christ.

Humility and the Great-Souled Man

"August 25, 2000, will mark 100 years since the death of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. The contrast between the real man who died in Weimar, Germany, at the turn of the century, insane and in the care of his sister Elizabeth Nietzsche Förster, and the man of the Nietzschean legend could not be greater..."—a philosophical inquiry into the nature of humility and greatsouledness.

Let Us Pursue Nobleness of Heart

"Understand that a Christian can be nothing other than magnanimous, and this virtue commands attention all the more because we live in a society which wills our apostasy. Be convinced that the Church will be judged by our actions..."

Questions and Answers

Is it OK to sell blessed things on e-bay? Can Pope Pius XII's clarification of the error of the Council of Florence be used as a precedent for refusing the errors of Vatican II? Fr. Peter Scott answers.

Bishop de Castro Mayer and the New Mass

A Brazilian Ottaviani-like intervention from the heroic Bishop of Campos, with a cover letter to Pope Paul VI asking that his diocese be exempted from implementation of Pope Paul's New Mass.

The Knights of Columbus, Part 2

Conclusion of the history of the Americanist Knights of Columbus.