Issue: April 2011

Letter from the Editor

There is an astonishing affinity between two major problems in Western society: the crisis of natural law and the crisis in the Catholic Church.

I Accuse the Council

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

Abortion

Abortion and Excommunication Introduction:
What Is Abortion? Fr. Ricardo F. Olmedo The 1983 Code of Canon Law does not specify what should be understood by abortion nor does the...

The Church's Culpable Silence

Dr. Xavier Dor (b. 1929), is one of France’s leading pro-life activists. In 1986 he founded SOS Tout-Petits, which initially adopted tactics patterned on Operation Rescue.

Fr. Escher comes to Tradition

Fr. Yannick Escher, a Swiss priest, discovered Tradition through the Society of St. Pius X. He draws up an alarming report on the situation of the clergy after the Second Vatican Council.

The Importance of Language, PART 2

Introducing 
Evelyn Waugh’s 
Brideshead Revisited to the seminarians 
at St. Thomas Aquinas 
Seminary (March 9-11, 2001), 
Dr. White discusses 
in this conference all 
the implications of the 
image (TV, cinema, computers) replacing the word (books).

Interview with Fr. Gergory Post, FSSPX

In celebration of the Society’s 40th anniversary, what could be more natural than to interview one of the Society’s elders? Fideliter met with Fr. Gregory Post, currently assigned to the Syracuse priory and an eyewitness of the first days of the Society.

St. Maximilian Kolbe: His Very Own Words

Part 3 The Will Let us not forget that the essence and the perfection of our consecration are neither the sentiment nor the memory but the will. Therefore, in the case where one...

Church and World

California Priest Concelebrates with Presbyterian Minister On February 13, at St. Norbert’s parish, Father Escobar concelebrated Mass with Steve Whitney of Trinity Presbyterian Church in...

Questions and Answers

May Catholics practice yoga?

The Last Word

Why, oh why, does the Society of St. Pius X persist in staying on the fringes of the Church? Why does it refuse such a generously offered accord that would require of it no concessions?