Spring 2006
Volume 11, Number 2 - Contents


 

 After Me the deluge! (Editorial)

Without conversion, the struggle against Islam will fail.

 

France's new traditionalist institute

A Bordeaux-based community of priests attached exclusively to the Old Mass.

 

 Bishop Finn startles Missouri

By David Kehoe

One diocese of the American heartland where genuine leadership – with the periodic removal of openly heterodox Catholics from positions of power – is occurring.

 

George Pell has got the cred

By Gary Scarrabelotti

When Cardinal Pell read the Koran, he had to stop counting the invocations of violence after reaching "50, 60 or 70 pages".

 

 The classical Just War doctrine: Jus in bello

By Rev Ken Webb FSSP

In this, the second article of a two-part series, the author discusses what Aquinas and other philosophers have had to say about when and how a war may be waged justly.

 

 Should Catholics blog?

By R. J. Stove

These days almost every second Catholic appears to blog compulsively. This piece explores blogging's intellectual and moral perils.

 

 A bouquet of gestures: memories of Le Barroux, 2004

By Stephen McInerney

Visiting a French Benedictine monastery, which remains faithful to the traditional Mass and monastic rule, proved an extraordinarily moving experience.

 

Adornment, love, and the liturgy

By Kirk Kramer

The Mexican reportage of Evelyn Waugh conveys something of the old rite's treasures.

 

CIEL: its mission and rôle

By Shawn Tribe

CIEL (the Centre International d'Etudes Liturgiques) is becoming an increasingly prominent liturgical movement, and it had a colloqium in Oxford last September.

 

Liturgy beyond surface realities

By Gary Scarrabelotti

A review of three books, all written by Cardinal Ratzinger before he became Pope.

 

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