Issue: March 2009
Letter from the Editor
The press has been described as the “ Fourth Estate ” because of its considerable influence over public opinion; modern wars are not merely wars of physical weapons, but wars of...
Interview With Bishop Fellay
With the news of the lifting of the excommunications in January, there has been a flurry of media coverage regarding the Society of St. Pius X. Bishop Fellay, as Superior General, has granted...
A Return to Reverence
The following interview deals with an urgent problem that has appeared due to the return of the old Liturgy to churches which have been transformed by the Novus Ordo: the reception of Holy...
Sister Blandina Meets “Billy the Kid”
Sister Blandina was an Italian-born immigrant to the United States who became a Sister of Charity in 1866. After teaching for several years in Ohio, she was sent by her superiors to Trinidad,...
Music in America
Dr. Andrew Childs On the level of ideas, confusion surrounds the attempt to find a truly American voice, mirroring in many ways the contradictions inherent to philosophies and modes of...
Requiem At Ecône
The funeral of the three seminarians killed in an avalanche near the SSPX seminary at Ecône, Switzerland, last Wednesday, February 11, took place on Saturday, February 14. The three perished...
Classic Games & Video Games
Pierre Delpos This article provides an overview of the morality of games in general following the lead of St. Thomas Aquinas. It then takes a look at the main characteristics of today’s...
Jesus Promises to Give the Bread of Life (Jn. 6:24-72)
Bishop frederick justus knecht, d.d. Many of those who had been miraculously fed by Our Lord returned next morning to Capharnaum, where they sought and found Him in the synagogue. 1 Here Jesus...
The Annunciation of the Lord
The feast is so named because on this day the coming of the Son of God was announced by an angel. It was fitting that the Annunciation should precede the Incarnation, and this for three reasons....
Catechism Of the Crisis
Fr. Matthias Gaudron PART 21 74) What is the Catholic priest? The Catholic priest is the minister on earth of the great eternal priest, Jesus Christ, the only mediator (pontiff:...
Questions & Answers
Fr. Peter R. Scott At what age ought the sacrament of confirmation to be administered? This question was formerly a disputed one. The Council of Trent decreed that it be administered around...
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