Issue: March 2011

Letter from the Editor

The world is changing. Nowhere is this more evident than mass media and the means of communication. More and more, these inventions surround us and we are forced to ask: to what extent is it...

The Defense of Tradition

This is an edited transcript of a lecture given by Fr. Kenneth Novak on October 16 at the SSPX’s 40th Anniversary Conference in Kansas City.

Consecration to Our Lord Jesus Christ Through St. Joseph

All would agree that St. Joseph is intimately connected with Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary. What is the extent of this connection, that is, what is the degree of his involvement, and how necessary is he to the Divine Plan?

The Importance of Language

Introducing Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited to the seminarians at St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary (March 9-11, 2001)

SiSiNoNo

Faced with attacks on the Pope and the Church, the time has perhaps come to revisit certain theses, and to have the humility and intellectual honesty to admit that it is the new doctrines in ecclesiology introduced by Vatican II that have opened the gates to the enemies of the Church

The Terms of the Crisis: The Crisis of the Terms

We are not the first to go through a crisis in the Church; certainly this one is unprecedented in its extent, particularly through the invention of a “secondary Christianity,” but in the centuries before us there are elements of reflection that can and must be utilized.

St. Maximilian Kolbe: In His Own Words

It is in order to enable English speakers to have immediate access to some of the immense treasure of St. Maximilian Kolbe's writings that this little selection of his words has been compiled.

Church and World

Lawyer Claims Abuse Claims Exaggerated   Pakistan: Anti-Christian Persecutions  A Papal Nuncio Speaks Out on Summorum Pontificum

Questions and Answers

Can a Roman Catholic satisfy his Sunday obligation by attending an Eastern rite Mass?

The Last Word

On January 1, 2011, while celebrating World Peace Day, Pope Benedict XVI announced that he would travel to Assisi in October to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the first interfaith meeting held by Pope John Paul II in October 1986.