Issue: July 2020
Letter from the Publisher
Many of you have asked yourselves time and again how to live in the world without being of the world. So many of your friends and family acquaintances are fully immersed in the world and its allurements. Few can withdraw from the world and live as cave hermits or religious behind thick walls. The difficulty is to be ...
America’s Deeply Catholic Beginnings
In the minds of many, the American story is a Protestant story. And yet, a closer examination of historical facts reveals the unexpected: the deeply Catholic beginnings of the United States and Canada. Although long ignored by most academics, since the early twentieth century leading non-Catholic historians have ...
Culture and Hamlet
As he often said in his classes and conferences, Professor David Allen White pointed to the ideas in Shakespeare’s Hamlet as the beginning of the modern world. Written around 1600, the play dramatizes the conflict between the richly Catholic culture of the Middle Ages and the rising individualism of the early ...
Christendom in the Jungle: The Jesuit Missions in Paraguay
For centuries the Church faithfully carried out the mission entrusted by Our Lord to His Apostles: Go, teach ye all nations; baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you...
Isabel the Conqueror
“So great is her knowledge of the arts of peace and war, so keen her penetration, that she seems to have all the virtues in the highest grade that the female sex permits. She is exceedingly religious and spends so much on the ornamentation of the churches that the results are incredible. She shows for the Observant ...
The Father of California
The priest establishing the mission at San Diego in July 1769 didn’t look like someone destined to become the Father of California. Junipero Serra (1713-1784) stood just five feet two inches tall, was already 56 years of age, and suffered from asthma. Moreover, his left leg was often inflamed with huge varicose ulcers and he ...
Faith and Civilization According to Archbishop Lefebvre
When the young Marcel Lefebvre, at 18 years old, entered the French Seminary in Rome, on via Santa Chiara, he was under the direction of priests who were members of a missionary congregation, the Congregation of the Holy Ghost, under the title of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Right away he felt at ease, ...
The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass: The Offertory—Part Four
The Church prays that God would sanctify not only the elements of bread and wine just offered, but that He would also, by the Eucharistic Sacrifice, make us wholly worthy to be presented to Him as an eternal sacrificial gift. Thus the priest in the name of all the faithful recites the following prayer of offering:...
There is No Greater Love
Our Lord invites His disciples to lay down their life for their friend. He clearly states that there is no greater love than this. Following Christ crucified, the sacrifice of one’s entire human life for the love of God, our greatest friend, is the most perfect way to obey God. There are many ways that a man or woman can accept ...
Autun Cathedral
The monument which can be admired today was not originally built as a cathedral. A cathedral had already been built not far away in the 5th century, right opposite the lateral doorway. This first cathedral was probably built in the form of a basilica, with round columns and an apse decorated with mosaics. Successive bishops ...
These Ruins Are Inhabited
“Here, dull and dreary people inhabit a dull and dreary landscape.” This was the sole line written to me by a downcast friend on a postcard depicting what had to be labeled a “zone of habitation” rather than an honest to goodness city. Jobless, the poor wretch had been forced to take up work and lodgings amidst these ruins ...
Ismael de Tomelloso: A “Red” with a White Soul
During the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), Communist “Republicans” sought to wipe out all Catholic resistance to Spain’s amoral secular government. General Francisco Franco, who was the chief military officer of Spain, understood the viciousness of the Republican leaders and mustered allies to combat for the Faith and the ...
How to Educate the Child in the Spirit of Service
Is there a mother who doesn’t desire happiness for her child? Her secret is in forgetfulness of self; every mother has experienced this. The happiest are those who give themselves! Do we wish then to educate our little ones in true joy? This begins with service....
Questions and Answers
What is a “human right”?
Is it permissible to tolerate an evil?
Complex Questions & Simple Answers
Christ’s sacrifice on Calvary effectuated salvation for all peoples at all times, yet the Roman Catholic Church teaches that Christ is offered daily at the Mass. Does this not deny the sacrifice of the Cross and St. Paul’s Epistle to the Hebrews? ...
Book Review: An Introduction to Catholic Social Doctrine
In Fr. Bourmaud’s book, we find a concise look at what Catholics should know about the social reign of Christ the King drawn from what the great minds of the ages have always taught. To start, Father outlines in clear and bold brushstrokes the Church’s unique doctrine about “the relationship ...
Tradition’s Answer to the Conciliar Ecclesiology
At Courrier de Rome’s 15th Congress that took place on January 18, 2020, on the theme “Is there a risk of schism in the Church today?” Fr. Davide Pagliarani, Superior General of the SSPX, gave the final conference entitled “Tradition’s Answer to the Conciliar Ecclesiology.”
The Last Word
“We have not here a lasting city, but we seek one that is to come.” Since “we pray as we believe,” the key to understand the Social Kingship of Christ here on earth, and all the efforts that have been made to establish it over centuries, is simply to look at its model and end, the kingdom ...
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