Issue: August 1984
From the Editor's Desk
This month of August is highlighted by the 15th—Feast of the Assumption of Our Lady in Heaven.
The 1984 Ordinations at Econe
Nineteen eighty-four was a vintage year for Ordinations at Ecône...
On Collegiality
Fr. Basil Wrighton provides the historical background to the current crisis.
A Calvary... 1941-1944 Rene Lefebvre
The moving story of this great patriot's death was written by men who shared those last hours with him and who, after the war, wrote to Michel Lefebvre so that the family would be aware of what their father endured.
A Carmel in America!
Mother Mary Christiane writes, "After having made foundations in France and in Germany, the Carmel of Quievrain already has eight nuns who would be ready, in August of 1985, to go to America..."
Priestesses in the Church: Preposterous Propaganda!
It is fashionable today to evoke rights which are nonexistent. Murderers, pro-abortionists, sodomites, and lesbians are examples. One can add women who babble about their right to Orders to the list.
The Definition of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
From the Apostolic Constitution Munificentissimus Deus, November 1, 1950.
The Inquisition
By way of an apologia for the Inquisition, Wayne Nichols outlines the heresies of the day, the establishment of the Roman Inquisition and its difference from that of Spain; the Inquisitors and their mode of operation in contrast with that of the Protestant "reformers" and abuses of the period.
Saint Dominic
Msgr. Ronald Knox preached this sermon at St. Dominic's Priory, London, on 6 August 1934, during a solemn triduum to celebrate the seventh centenary of the canonization of St. Dominic.
Apologia Pro II
Lucille Quinlan, a writer herself and scholar of languages, reviews the second volume of Apologia pro Marcel Lefebvre by Michael Davies.
On Mary, the Virgin Mother of God
A homily of St. Peter Canisius (1521-97) for the Feast of the Assumption, celebrating that happy day in the special manner of saints.
News Briefs
RNS articles documenting the devolution of the Church into schism and heresy.
Old Nuns
A poem by James M. Hayes.
Ask Me...
Father Carl answers questions about St. Maximina, the number of traditional priests in the world, the validity of the orders received by three newly-ordained priests who immediately left the SSPX, and the Protestant-like Conciliar Church.
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