Issue: November 1980

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Ten Years in the Service of the Church: The Priestly Society of St. Pius X

For the SSPX's tenth anniversary, Fr. Paul Aulagnier recounts its establishment and reproduces the official documents establishing it as a work of the Church.

Archbishop Lefebvre Is Not a Rebel!

Jean Madiran, editor of the French Catholic journal Itinéraires, makes a passionate appeal to Pope John Paul II to use his authority to restore the Church to sanity and sanctity.

News from Econe

Ecône exists for the sacred priesthood of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Without the priesthood Ecône would not have a raison d'être. It is then with great joy that each scholastic year is undertaken for the climax of each year is, of course, the joyful day of the sacerdotal ordinations...

A Day in the Life of Archbishop Lefebvre

The everyday life of Archbishop Lefebvre.

The Saint of the Miraculous Medal

Tucked into the far corner of the month of November, at the very end of the liturgical year, we find the feast of St. Catherine Laboré.

Some Memories ...

Sister Marie Christiane, the Archbishop's sister and Superior of the Carmelite Convent at Quievrain in Belgium, has most graciously provided us with some personal memories of the Archbishop's childhood. Photographs illustrate his ecclesiastical career.

In Just Ten Years

Providence has blessed the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X! The best proof of this is its prodigious growth since June 6,1969... A photo album of its establishments.

The Archbishop and the Sacraments

It is a sad indication of the extent to which some traditionalists have become possessed by a sectarian and bitter spirit that they are now attacking Msgr. Lefebvre himself. His crime is that he insists upon the validity of the New Mass and the fact that Pope John Paul II is truly pope, and will not allow any priest to remain within the Society who contests either of these positions...

An Open Letter to the Bishops of the American Catholic Church

The first of this four-part series by our Editor is aimed at presenting the charges to those responsible for the devastation of the vineyard.

Prayer for the Holy Souls in Purgatory

A prayer for the suffering souls in purgatory by Cardinal Newman.

Prayer to Foster the Practice of Daily Communion

A prayer by the Pope of the Holy Eucharist to foster the practice of daily reception of Holy Communion.

Ask Me...

Father Carl answers questions about the Catholic stand on hypnotism, Melchisedech, an accusation of semi-Pelagianism in Trentan teaching, and what to do when the only Mass celebrated nearby is the Novus Ordo Missae.