Letters from the Rector, Book 3

This third of four volumes in the Letters from the Rector series includes 52 of Bishop Williamson’s letters, numbers 131 to 182, dating from September 1, 1994, to December 1, 1998, while he was leading the Winona seminary. Among other things, the letters in this volume offer an infrequent but consistent commentary on Rome-SSPX relations, which provides, if nothing else, highly useful historical context for those relations today. The volume also includes Bishop Williamson’s ten-year retrospective on Archbishop Lefebvre’s Episcopal consecrations, broadsides against “fiftiesism,” and musings on film (The Wall, The Sounds of Music, Nixon, and others), Americanism, universities, co-education, and more.