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The Reign of Mary, Issue No. 99, Fall 1999

No Room in the Inn
By Very Rev. Fr. Casimir Puskorius, CMRI.
Despite its seeming ambivalences, the postconciliar Church is clearly against the traditional Latin Mass, and there will be “no room in the inn” for the Sacramental Christ in the Millennial celebration of Jubilee 2000....

Highlights of Fatima Conference 1999
By Sr. Mary Dominica, CMRI.
At the Fatima Conference this year, we offered to our Blessed Lady a crown of twelve stars in the form of twelve lectures on her prerogatives and privileges....

“A Woman Clothed with the Sun, and on Her Head a Crown of Twelve Stars...”
By the Most Rev. Bishop Mark A. Pivarunas, CMRI.
The topic of this morning’s first conference is the Divine Maternity of the Blessed Virgin. This is, very appropriately, the first of the twelve “Stars” in the crown of our Blessed Mother that we will consider at this year’s Fatima Conference....

Imperial Involvement in Early Church Councils
By Rev. Fr. Brendan Hughes, CMRI
Mere assemblage of bishops a council does not make. Monsignor Van Noort distinguishes between the emperor's physical convocation of the bishops in ancient times and the pope’s authoritative action which along constitutes a council....

A Closer Look at the Fatima Message
We begin with this issue a series of lectures that were given by Father Messias D. Coelho to members of the Ave Maria Pilgrimage in 1967 at the Blue Army House in Fatima, Portugal. Fr. Coelho was regarded as an outstanding authority on the message of Fatima.

Adoration of Jesus Christ, DAY and NIGHT, in every Tabernacle of the World, will end present-day evils.
By Fr. Dominic Syzmanski, O.F.M.Conv.
One day Christ will say, “I was in prison and you did not visit Me” (Matt. 24;43). Christ is a Prisoner in our Tabernacles; we do fail to visit Him....

Summer Youth Camps
By Theresa and James Picard
Theresa Picard writes to tell us about the highlights of Camp St. Philomena for girls in Thamesford, Ontario, while her brother James writes about the Knights of the Altar outing in Algonquin Park in northern Ontario. Photos included.

A Guide to Making the Five First Saturdays
By Maria de F. Fortado
The devotion of First Saturdays, as requested by Our Lady of Fatima, carries with it the assurance of salvation. To derive profit from such a great promise, however, the devotion must be properly understood and duly performed.

Prohibited Books: Various Queries
Taken from Problems in Canon Law, by William Conway, D.D. D.C.L.
Do university students, whose course of studies includes a reading of certain prohibited books, require permission to read and retain such books? If so, are they allowed to retain them when they have completed their studies? In a general way, when may one presume permission?

In Loving Memory of Victor Denis Ochoa
By His Grandmother, Mrs. Myrna Migala
Born July 14, 1996, Victor took his flight to God on June 13, 1999, his new birth day. The words of St. Teresa of Avila come to mind: “I die because I do not die.”....

Other titles:
Trust in God
Prayers for the Souls in Purgatory
Newsnotes:
Gathering of World Religions
No Hell?
Muslim Chaplain at Catholic University
and more...