Gaining Indulgences in This Life Helps Pay Our Debt of Sin and Gain Heaven Faster
by Sr. Mary Cabrini, OP (Fall, 2017) What are Indulgences and Why is There So Much Importance Attached to Them? While taking a routine morning walk along a popular path, a young man’s attention was drawn to many sparkling flecks amid the dirt and gravel. His curiosity urged him to stoop down and gather a […]
A Quick Review of Church History and Regulations Concerning the Altar
By Paula Storm (Fall-Winter, 2007) A study of the various items and furnishings used in the Holy Mass and liturgical ceremonies of the Church helps us to better understand and appreciate the truths of our Holy Faith as manifested in the sacred liturgy. This article discusses the altar upon which the Holy Mass is offered […]
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.
Doing Battle for the Rights of God: Fr. Mateo, the Sacred Heart, and the Spanish Civil War
(Winter 2008) Some ten miles southeast of Madrid lies a hill marking the geographical center of the Iberian peninsula. Here, at the Cerro de los Angeles, occurred two remarkable events in the 20th century, which signify the battle raging in the world between Christ and Satan, between the Catholic Church and the enemies of God, […]
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 […]
The Origin of the Ecclesiastical Year
From the 1935 book, Catholic Liturgics, by Richard Stapper, S.T.D. (Spring-Summer, 2006) The ecclesiastical year originated in the annual observance of certain days in memory of Christ; these commemorative occurrences have a relation to one another and represent anew the historical progress and the supernatural benefits of the work of redemption. The divinely-instituted feasts of […]
Quotes from 10 Mystics That Help Us Meditate on Mary’s Sorrows
by Alexis M. Lepicier, OSMtranslated by Marge Radford (Winter, 2017) What good can come from our meditating on the sorrows of the mother of God and her Most Holy Son? St. Alexis Faconeri (+1310), one of the seven Holy Founders of the Servite Order. A 14th century historian cites him as having said these memorable […]
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 […]
The Precious Blood of Jesus is the Symbol for the Whole Mystery of Redemption
A Sermon Preached by Rev. Fr. Bernard Uttley, O.S.B., on June 29, 2014 My beloved people, this Tuesday is the feast of the Most Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ, and in popular piety the entire month of July is dedicated to the devotion of the Precious Blood. Although Our Lord’s entire Sacred Humanity […]
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 […]
