Issue: September 2000

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Pastoral Letters: Religious Life

Letter of Archbishop Lefebvre dated May 1967 to the Holy Ghost Fathers on the religious and apostolic life and their novitiate: "At a time when some very far-reaching moves are being made to 'update' the novitiate, it would be a good thing to define it, for we live in an age of definitions, of clear ideas, of descriptions of the essence of things."

Who Was Luther?

For more than a century, the historians who have dispassionately studied the documents have concluded that intellectual utopia alone cannot explain Luther, and that his words betray a pathological state. Some recent works remove all doubt.

The Heresy of Sola Scriptura

Conclusion of an Open Letter to a Protestant giving eleven reasons why the Protestant rule of sola scriptura is untenable.

Questions and Answers

May we attend the Masses of Thuc-line priests? Should a Catholic plan for retirement?

Was the "Good Pope" a Good Pope?

The first part of a three-part series challenging the life of "heroic virtue" currently ascribed to Pope John XXIII at his recent beatification, focusing on the principles expressed in his own writings by which he lived his life and reigned as pontiff.

The Americanist Vision Since 1932, Pt. 1

The continuing saga of the inoculation of the error of religious liberty into the minds of Catholics worldwide through the actions of Americanist clergy and the Knights of Columbus.