Do We Have a Bad Pope or No Pope? Understanding the Papacy and the Passion of the Church
From all the foregoing, we can see how important the “Pope question” is. Many who call themselves traditional Catholics think that the issue of whether the papal claimants after Pius XII are true Popes or not, is peripheral, perhaps even unimportant, or, in any case, just a matter of opinion, as though nothing followed from accepting or rejecting someone’s claim to the Papacy.
How Could God Permit a Long-Term Vacancy of the Holy See? Fr. O’Reilly Uses the Western Schism to Explain
By John Daly(Revised and edited by John Lane, October 1999) In 1882 a book was published in England called The Relations of the Church to Society — Theological Essays, comprising twenty-nine essays by Fr. Edmund James O’Reilly S.J., one of the leading theologians of his time. The book expresses with wonderful clarity and succinctness many […]
Does Paul VI’s Rite of Episcopal Consecration Make True Bishops?
(Spring-Summer, 2006) by Rev. Fr. Anthony Cekada A summary of Fr. Cekada’s article disproving SSPX’s claim that Novus Ordo bishops are valid bishops Readers of The Angelus were probably surprised last year when they received the December 2005 issue with its feature article entitled “Why the New Rite of Episcopal Consecration is Valid.” What […]
Reflecting on Our Lady of Fatima’s Messages to the Children and to Lucia as a Religious Sister
A Lecture delivered at the Fatima Conference, October 12, 2017 by Rev. Fr. Benedict Hughes, CMRI Although most faithful Catholics are well aware of the story of the six apparitions of Our Lady at Fatima in 1917, not a great deal of attention is paid to the further apparitions to Lucia after she entered the […]
How the Conciliar Church and the New Age Movement Misrepresent St. Francis of Assisi
by Rev. Fr. Benedict Hughes, CMRI (Fall, 2015) After he had been elected by the Novus Ordo cardinals on March 13, 2013, to be the head of the Conciliar Church, Jorge Mario Bergoglio surprised them by announcing that he would be known as Francis. Why a surprise? Because no pope in the history of the […]
Sedevacantism: A Brief Explanation
by Bishop Mark A. Pivarunas The following article was originally written in 1992, yet it has never before been printed in The Reign of Mary. This brief article is an excellent synopsis of the reasons why so many traditional Catholics have concluded that the Chair of Peter is vacant today. Although it was written during […]
70 Years a Priest of God: Father Martin Stepanich, O.F.M., S.T.D.
(Fall, 2006) Known as Frank Stepanich in his pre-Franciscan days, the future Father Martin was born on a farm near the small town of Neodesha in southeast Kansas on November 12, 1915. Grade school education at the nearby Brooks country school was followed by one year at Neodesha High School. Answering the call of God, […]
Fiducia Supplicans – Want it or Not, the Approval of Homosexuality.
By Fr. Carlos Zepeda It wasn’t too long ago that we were recording a podcast denouncing the scandal caused by the Vatican with the approval of so-called transgenders for Baptism and to function as sponsors. In that podcast, we stated that it was only a matter of time, perhaps a few months or a couple […]
Is the Consecration Form for the Holy Eucharist in the New Mass Valid or Invalid?
by Patrick Henry Omlor Adapted from his longer work of the same title (Summer, 2007) The Problems with the New Form of Consecration Defenders of the “short form” position hold that these first few words of the wine-consecration form in the Latin Rite, “This is the chalice of My Blood,” suffice for the valid consecration […]
Should Devotees of St. Joseph Be Happy About the Insertion of His Name in the Canon of the Mass?
(Spring 1972)by Howard J. Earp “THE MASS”: It is the Mass that matters; lt is the Mass that is the heart of our Catholic Faith. The Catholic religion rises and falls with this, its central act of worship. If the meaning of the Mass were to change, the religion would change. The Modernists did not […]
