Issue: August 2001
Pastoral Letters: On Authority, Pt. 2
The second part of a letter, begun last month (July 2001), of Archbishop Lefebvre dealing with authority: "It is fitting to remind ourselves of the Church's traditional teaching, and that of all the Popes of the last century, that the State, civil society, has an important part to play in aiding and encouraging its citizens in faith and virtue..."
The Latest Between the Society and Rome
An exchange of correspondence between Cardinal Castrillon Hoyos, President of the Ecclesia Dei Commission, and Bishop Fellay, Superior General of the Society of Saint Pius X, about the breakdown in the negotiations between Rome and the Society.
Interview with Bishop Fellay
Bishop Fellay spoke with Pacte editor Father de Tanoüarn about the long-term effects of the negotiations with Rome over the last six months.
Organ Predation and Pope John Paul II
A month after the first heart transplant, 200 medical investigators in the U.S. organized an ad hoc Commission ...to define death in the neurological sense so that transplantation teams could evade legal and moral charges. In this article, Fr. Rottoli examines the moral relativism of the new definition of "brain death" as a way to evade the legal and moral consequences of the removal of vital organs from the dying before they are dead!
Heroes and Heroism
An insightful essay by Fr. Justin Swanton on heroes and heroism, with passing references to Ulysses and Christian, Arthur and Eärendil; and to Augustine and Aquinas, too, in a digression on what is wrong with the universe...
Questions & Answers
Fr. Scott answers the question whether the Church has approved of "cadaveric" organ transplantation, and explains the Church's actual teaching.
Forward to Benedict
How the Rule of St. Benedict transformed the pagan West and caused Christendom. An appreciation of monasticism by Louis B. Ward originally published in 1939 under the title "Back to Benedict," interestingly it begins with a survey of the papal encyclicals on the social question, beginning with Leo XIII.
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