Issue: November 1981

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To Our Readers

Since time immemorial the Church has used this season to teach her children the sobering lessons of the Four Last Things: Death, Judgment, Heaven and Hell...

Letter to Friends and Benefactors (No. 21)

The ordinations of June 29 last brought the number of priests in the Society of St. Pius X up to 100...

News from Econe

A report by Andre Lemieux on what's happening at Ecône.

The Legal Status of the Tridentine Mass

The status of the Bull Quo Primum is examined by Michael Davies.

Calvary

A poem by Eugenia Carver.

Ventures of Faith

A sermon for Advent by Cardinal Newman: "Here then a great lesson is impressed upon us, that our duty as Christians lies in this, in making ventures for eternal life without the absolute certainty of success..."

Five Years of Trial and Triumph

A photo-report on Queen of Angels Chapel, Dickinson, Texas, for its fifth anniversary.

Purgatory, or The Church Suffering

Points to ponder about guilt and atonement in understanding the reality of purgatory by a Benedictine. Let us try to see why it is right that after repenting our sins we must suffer for them.

Protestantizing Parish, Priest, and People...

Father Stark reviews a new book by Andrew Greeley et alia, Parish, Priest and People.

The Plight of the Church in America

The publication of the Catholic Directory and the Catholic Almanac for 1981 demonstrate more forcibly than any words could convey the serious deterioration of the Catholic Church...

Sacrilege

The question is why does the Archdiocese of New York want to go into the abortion business?

Angel Talk

A hidden saints puzzle!

Ask Me...

Father Carl answers questions about cremation, the "Junkyard Nun," the on-going destruction of the Church, and the placement of the nails shown on the Shroud of Turin.