Issue: May 2002

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Rome, the SSPX, Campos, Assisi, Etc.

Bishop Fellay spoke at St. Vincent de Paul's, Kansas City, on March 5, 2002, to bring the faithful up to date about the situation in the Church and the Society's relations with Rome. Topics include Assisi II, the Society's two prerequisites for an agreement with Rome, the Campos apostolic administration, some Vatican doctrinal aberrations concerning the Mass and the words of Consecration, and the story of a miracle told to the Bishop by the beneficiary herself.

Archbishop Lefebvre: Preparing the Council (1959-1962)

Bishop Tissier de Mallerais tells of a dramatic clash between Cardinals Ottaviani and Bea over a serious application of the faith in the modern world during the preparatory phase of the Council, which clued Archbishop Lefebvre to the confrontations that would emerge during the Council.

The Campos Situtation

Whither Campos and its new Apostolic Administration now that Bishop Rangel and the traditional priests of the St. John Marie Vianney Society have rallied to Rome, Bishop Fellay wonders.

Questions & Answers

Fr. Scott discusses the question whether a marriage is valid if the couple agrees beforehand to limit the number of their children by means of artificial birth control or NFP.

Descartes' Dream

Dr. Peter Chojnowski explains the origins of modern rationalism, starting with the famous dream of Descartes: "It is not surprising that the philosophical-theological error that we refer to as "modernism" should begin with a dream..."