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| Open Letter to Confused Catholics | 
 enlarge | Author: Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre
Publisher: Angelus Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (8 reviews)
Sales Rank: 797067
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 3
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 163
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.6 x 0.2
ISBN: 0935952136
Dewey Decimal Number: 282.0904
EAN: 9780935952131
ASIN: 0935952136
Publication Date: November 1, 1992
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A popular study of the crisis in the Church written for all to understand. Covers the Mass, Sacraments, Priesthood, the New Catechisms, Ecumenism, etc., and demonstrates the new spirit in the Church which has caused doubt and confusion among the faithful. Has served as a beacon for thousands; certain to become a classic.
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Excellent Commentary on Today's Crisis January 14, 2008
I approached this book not without a bit of trepidation. This was, after all, published by those "schismatics" at the Society of St. Pius X. However, His Excellency's straightforward and clear writing made this one hard to put down. You will not find a better treatise on the current crisis of the Church today. A "must read" for all Confused Catholics!
 Excellent, and sympathetic, yet missing the Essential.... October 6, 2006
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is a fascinating and persuasive protestant document, and a true indictment that for many Traditional and Orthodox Catholics has not yet been adequately answered. It would be difficult for any Catholic not to agree with 99.9% of Marcel Lefebvre's arguments presented here, save one, however, and it is operative: Unam Sanctam.
Every living human creature must submit and be in communion with the Bishop of Rome. For this is the operative requirement of Catholicos.
Marcel Lefebvre's catalogue of abuses and challenges deserve a loud "Amen!" from the faithful, yet on a single point of ontology Lefebvre avoids the most bedrock point and response. The Bishop of Rome has the ontological power to make and bind, for if he declares the New Mass valid and sufficient, it is Divinely so.
Nevertheless, The response to this and other of Lefebvre's thorough criticisms from Rome has been inadequate, and John Paul The Great's encouragement of the wide availability of the Indult Tridentine Latin Mass has been met with passive aggressive hostility from most Bishops. Yet we must never in equal measure abandon Communion or Hope. An ontological essential that both Feeneyites and Lafebverists have at periods forgotten, and thus made them protestants.
Support of Traditional Catholic Doctrine and Teachings September 9, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a very well written explanation of the Catholic Church's fall from the true teachings and Glory in the years before the Second Vatican Council was called. In this book, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre just reasserts the traditional catholic doctrine and teachings on faith, moral and social issues that have always been defended by the Church. The same doctrine that he supports in this writing was defended by the likes of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Saint Pius V, Saint Pius X, the blessed Pius IX or the venerable Pius XII.
This apologia is concise and translated well into English. We can see that where the Modernist failed in the past; they were able to get a foothold within the church through the ill use of the Second Vatican Council. Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre never innovates or dissents in his writing. He only tries to preserve the faith, and for this was rebuked.
If you want to understand what happened to the true Catholic Church, this is a must read book. So do not listen to hearsay, read his thoughts in his own words and understand why he was concerned for us.
His Humble Advice to Catholics!! August 24, 2005
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Archbishop Marcel Francois Lefevbre wrote this letter as a warning and advice to Catholics around the world. A New Religion being promoted--that the Mass is not a Sacrifice but rather the celebration of the Lord's Supper! Catholic bishops and priests telling non-Catholics not to convert to the Catholic Faith!
He cites many sacrileges and abominations in France that happened in parish churches. Catholic Dominican monks giving their chapels to Muslims so they can have their own mosques! He cites many terrible scandals such as using baked cookies being used as hosts at the celebration of the Mass.
Archbishop Lefevbre's life span experience as a seminary professor for almost a quarter century, a Vatican Apostolic Delegate for Pope Pius XII and member of the Preparatory Commission for the Second Vatican Council for Pope John XXIII---he knew how people in the Catholic Church were changing the Church from within by introducing heresy and scandal leading to apostasy. It is a must read! Neither schismatic or heretic! It is truly Catholic---a Catholic archbishop who wants souls to be saved and not to be damned in Hell because of apostasy and Modernism.
The courage to remain catholic December 20, 2002
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
In this book, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre doesn't sustain any doctrine that hasn't been previously defended by doctors of the Church like Saint Thomas Aquinas or popes as Saint Pius V, Saint Pius X, the blessed Pius IX or the venerable Pius XII: he just reasserts the traditional catholic doctrine and teachings on faith, moral and social issues; he never innovates or dissents.Obviously, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre wasn't a schimastic or an heretic, as many modernists - some of them even in the highest ranks of the Church - dared to label him in a unfair and infamous way. On the contrary, in a time of generalized apostasy, he just fulfilled his duties of Archbishop, refusing the changement of Catholicism in a religious syncretism, which maintaining an external catholic appearance, intends to cross and to conciliate it with heretic protestantism, masonic moral relativism and marxist political demagogy, in order to form a new (false) religion that catchs the so-called "spirit of Vatican II". Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre was undoubtedly a great figure of the Catholic Church in the second half of the 20th century: thanks to his almost unique efforts, orthodox Roman Catholic doctrine and pratice didn't vanished from our world, very especially, the beautiful tridentine mass. This book should be read by every catholic concerned with his Church, in order to understand Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in his own words, full of plain common sense.
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