New Book Defends Catholic Social Teaching,

Sparks International Debate

Michael Matt Interviews Christopher Ferrara

MJM and CAF

MJM: There’s been a lot of buzz about your new book, The Church and the Libertarian, especially within libertarian and distributist circles.  But why would Joe the Catholic Plumber or Mary the Homeschool Mom be interested your book?

CAF: First, because there’s more to being a traditional Catholic than attending the Latin Mass on Sunday. This newspaper has rightly sounded the warning that traditionalists are deluded if they ignore the cultural question and allow their homes to be invaded by a degenerate popular culture created by men who hate everything the Church stands for.  By the same token, Catholics must address what the Popes call the “social question” in their encyclicals preaching against the errors of both economic and political liberalism. The very culture that threatens our Faith—steeped in contraception, pornography, and rampant consumerism—is a creature of the so-called “free” market operating in tandem with secular states that protect it from censorship and other forms of moral regulation called for by the Church’s teaching.  Even the new Catechism of the Catholic Church calls for the State to prohibit, confiscate and destroy “free” market pornography, for example, but now we have liberal Catholics, who call themselves “traditionalist libertarians” with a straight face, decrying such legal measures as “statism,” and daring to cite St. Thomas Aquinas in support of their nonsense....MORE>>>

- REMNANT EXCLUSIVE -

Bishop Fellay Denies Any

Knowledge of New Motu Proprio

Dubs Bishop Williamson Rumor “Gossip”

and “Unauthorized;” Doctrinal Talks Continue

Brian Mershon

August 24, 2010—Superior General Bishop Bernard Fellay of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), one of four bishops whose excommunications were lifted by Pope Benedict XVI in January 2009, today categorically denied any knowledge of an alleged special motu proprio being planned by the Holy See for the SSPX as stated recently by SSPX Bishop Richard Williamson.  This rumored MP would not require the SSPX to take any sort of oath of acceptance where Vatican II and the New Mass are concerned.

 “I’m very annoyed by the whole thing,” said Bishop Fellay. “Bishop Williamson’s statement is an unauthorized statement and is his own personal statement and not that of the Society.”...MORE>>>

The Remnant and The Latin Mass Magazine

Embark on Mutual Promotional Campaign

Michael J. Matt

Dear Fellow Catholic:

With each passing day the vindication of the traditionalist cause becomes abundantly obvious to more Catholics around the world.  At the same time laws and prejudices against traditional Catholicism are taking a toll on the ability of Catholic publishers to freely defend Church teaching in the public square, while frequent hikes in the cost of postage and newsprint have already rendered many publishers incapable of keeping their doors open...MORE>>>