Issue: September 1983

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The Archbishop Speaks: The Ordination Sermon

Archbishop Lefebvre's sermon delivered at the ordinations at Ecône in June.

The Work of Redemption

A lecture by Fr. Franz Schmidberger.

True And False Obedience

The first of two articles based on a lecture Michael Davies gave in August 1983. The lecture dealt with a problem which traditional Catholics come across frequently in discussions with friends who are not traditionalists—that of obedience.

The American Bishops And Nuclear Arms

French Catholic intellectual Jean Madiran takes the American bishops to task for their recent pastoral letter, "The Challenge of Peace."

 

A Christian's Duty

Father Bolduc explains the Church's just war doctrine and a nation's legitimate right to adequate self-defense.

The Meaning of the Mass

An American Jesuit who spent twenty-three years in the Soviet Union, most of that time in prisons or in slave labor camps in Siberia, Fr. Walter Ciszek, reminds us of what a treasure the Mass is.

Angel Talk

A hidden-word quiz on baptism and confirmation.

Saint Maximilian Kolbe

We are publishing an article from L'Osservatore Romano (27 September 1982, English edition), which will indicate the success of Father Kolbe's press apostolate. Its scope astonished us; we are sure it will astonish our readers...

Our Lady of Sorrow

A prayer to Our Lady of Sorrows incorporating an ardent invocation by St. Bonaventure.

Ask Me...

Father Carl answers questions about John Paul II's heterodoxy, the the CMRI, the Marian Movement of Priests, and the use of a table at Mass instead of an altar.