Issue: January 1982

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To Our Readers

We begin our fifth year of publication under the aegis of St. Francis de Sales, Bishop of Geneva in the seventeenth century and Heavenly Patron of Catholic writers, whose feast occurs on January 29th...

Valid Legal Existence of the SSPX

Rev. Thomas Glover, Doctor of Canon Law and seminary professor at Ecône, explains the reasons for the valid legal existence of the SSPX.

Declaration

Archbishop Lefebvre's Declaration of November 21, 1974.

Legalized Abortion And Catholic Optimism

While we traditional Catholics, faithful to the unchangeable teachings of Holy Mother Church, stand solidly united both with our priests and with each other in condemning and opposing abortion, the following thoughts and information are written in the hope that we may redouble our efforts in the fight while heightening our optimism...

Poems contra Abortion

The poems "Abortion Surgeon" and "Termination of Pregnancy" by David Read.

Catholic Love of Wisdom vs. Modernist Sorrow

In this, the introduction to a series "False Philosophies of the Modern World," the author sets the stage by describing the role of philosophy in the Catholic outlook, and contrasting that with the disorder created by outstanding "philosophical heresies" of the last few centuries.

Keep Holy the Lord's Day

Modern America resembles revolutionary France in its profanation of Sundays. A reminder of the message of Our Lady of La Salette.

A Christmas Concert?

Musings of a Catholic corralled into attending a secular Christimas concert in a re-purposed Catholic church.

News from Econe and Albano

Highlights of Archbishop Lefebvre's trip down under, and the Albano seminarians' traditional pilgrimage to the seven basilicas of Rome.

Epiphany

"The kings have gone to their rest many a long year: we are in their place today. And shall we let the occasion pass without making to the Infant Jesus the offerings for which He stretches out His hands?" A fine Epiphany sermon of a 19th-century Irish priest.

Ask Me...

Father Carl answers questions about the prospects for the Tridentine Mass, the sacrament of marriage in the Conciliar Church, Sister Lucia of Fatima, consecration to the IHM, and the practice of the five first Saturdays.