Issue: February 1978

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EDITORIAL: On Rumors and Their Source

The question arises: "Why should individuals who call themselves Traditional Catholics spend so much of their time attacking the one man who, through his unselfish efforts, is presently the only Bishop in the world publicly defending Holy Mother Church?"

THE VALIDITY OF HOLY ORDERS

The controversy over whether Cardinal Lienart was a Freemason has engendered doubts about the validity of Archbishop Lefebvre's ordination and episcopal consecration. What does the Church teach?

MARY MARTINEZ WRITES FROM ROME

A Catholic journalist recalls her tour of traditional Catholic centers in America.

THE LATEST SACRILEGE...

Parental fears that the new rite of baptism administered to their children is invalid may indeed be well founded...

ESSAYS ON CATHOLICISM, LIBERALISM AND SOCIALISM

A passage from Donoso Cortes on the inescapability of the spiritual warfare here below: no deferrals or exemptions allowed.

SCRIPTURAL PROPHECIES FOR LENT

Messianic prophecies of the Passion.