Issue: May 2003

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Pastoral Letter: On the Problems of the Modern Apostolate

In Questions 27-31, Bishop Antonio de Castro Mayer's Catechism of Opportune Truths touches on aspects of clerical life, including wearing of the cassock, clerical conduct, poverty, and the worker priest movement.

Jungle Priest and Fighter for the Faith

The life of a humble Franciscan priest and missionary, Fr. Clement Procopio, and how, at a venerable age, he came to tell his bishop that he's back to celebrating only the Latin Mass.

Father Fights for the Latin Mass

Correspondence between Fr. Clement Procopio, O.F.M., and the Bishop of Phoenix, who suspended him from ministering in the Diocese of Phoenix for celebrating the traditional Latin Mass.

QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

Can the use of nuclear weapons in time of war ever be justified? Must the hosts used in the Mass be white? Fr. Peter Scott answers.

Might Is Not Right

Father Iscara delves further into Catholic "Just War" doctrine by examining the moral issues involved with so-called preventive war, which was invoked by the U.S. government to justify its attack on Iraq.

Book Review: Utopia of Usurers

G. K. Chesterton reveals the most quietly held secret of the Liberal System: the "liberty" instituted as the foundation of the System is for the benefit of the few and for the gradual impoverishment and enslavement of the rest.

Basilique Sainte Madeleine

A guided tour of one of the most important places of pilgrimage in the Middle Ages, where relics of St. Mary Magdalen are enshrined.