Letters from the Rector, Book 4

This last of four volumes in the Letters from the Rector series includes Bishop Williamson’s letters 183 through 236 – the remaining 54 in the overall collection of 235 – written between February 9, 1999, and August 9, 2003, during the last part of his tenure at the head of the Winona seminary. Among other things, the Bishop addresses key events of the period, such as 9-11, the second war in Iraq, the President Clinton affair, and John Paul II’s famous “apologies,” as well as some of his favorite themes, to include rural vs. suburban life and the family, while simultaneously and consistently dealing with the relationship between the SSPX (and Catholic traditionalism generally) and Rome. The volume includes its own index and a comprehensive index to the four-volume series, and it closes with His Excellency’s charming poem bidding farewell to the United States after two decades’ worth of work forming priests for the Society of St. Pius X.