July-September 2008
Volume 13, Number 3 - Contents


 

 Crisis of the bishops (Editorial)

A resurgent Catholicism should not expect liberal tolerance, either from the world at large or from those bishops who do their best to thwart such an outcome.

 

 Juventutem's WYD festival; from ashes to embers

How the traditional Latin Mass came to World Youth Day in Sydney .

 

Monk and nun round-up

Developments in monasteries, convents and traditional religious orders around the world.

 

Dom Gerard Calvet OSB

By Katrina Edwards

An obituary of one of the giants of Catholic tradition, who founded the monastery of Le Barroux in France.

 

The Folk Mass is ended ... go in peace

By John Zmirak

Analogies between the freeing-up of the Tridentine liturgy and the collapse of the Berlin Wall.

 

Is ecumenism a heresy?

By Fr Brian W. Harrison OS

Analysing key documents of Vatican II, to determine whether they can be reconciled with the traditional teaching on non-Catholic churches.

 

Is Jack as good as his master?

By James Bogle

The pernicious doctrine of egalitarianism.

 

Church music by the unchurched: Saint-Saëns

By R. J. Stove

A composer who spent most of his life outside Catholicism, but who contributed notably to its sacred music.

 

The life of a language

By David Daintree

Reviewing Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin, by Nicholas Ostler.

 

 

Reviving cultural memory

By Stephen McInerney

Reviewing See the Virgin Blest: The Virgin Mary in English Poetry, by Barry Spurr.

 

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