Issue: March 2005

POPE PIUS IX

The person and pontificate of Blessed Pius IX remain controversial. Fr. Iscara's article "is no more than a brief attempt to discern and show Pius IX in his integrity, one in doctrine, virtue, and political thinking, and to dissipate some of the mists of the liberal deception that has affected even us, that tendentious picture of Pius IX as an enigmatic Jekyll and Hyde, a man of divided principles and behavior."

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Fr. Scott explains why the second Confiteor was omitted from the Angelus Press's 1962 Daily Missal, and why and how those who have consecrated themselves to the Immaculate Heart of Mary may still offer prayers for their loved ones and their own intentions.

PROTESTING THE PROTESTANT MOVEMENT

Protestantism is not a single religion that could be examined and debated. It only has some "principles" which can be invoked with flexibility and can be used to generate the religion congenial to the Protestant. In these pages, as examples, Dr. Gyula Mago discusses two Protestant "principles," one Protestant doctrinal error, and the rejection of two Catholic doctrines...

15 Minutes with Fr. de Chivre: PURITY

Fifteen Minutes with Father De Chivré.

BOOK REVIEW: "More Catholic Than the Pope"

Fr. Stephen Somerville, S.T.L., reviews More Catholic Than the Pope: An Inside Look at Extreme Traditionalism, an anti-SSPX attack by Patrick Madrid and Pete Vere: "..my lament against More Catholic Than the Pope is its heavy emphasis on legality. It makes me think of the Scribes and Pharisees who attacked Jesus relentlessly with 'the law, the law, the law' without concern for faith in the new Messiah who stood before their unbelieving eyes..."