Why Solemn Mass

Why Solemn Mass

by Angelus Press

This series was written for Angelus Press by Louis Tofari Discourses on Solemn Mass: Introduction Explanations about the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass according to the Roman Rite abound. But these tend to focus on Low Mass, thus neglecting the...

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35 Years Later

35 Years Later

by Brent Klaske

35 years ago, in Dickinson, TX, Fr. Carl Pulvermacher, a Capuchin priest, founded both Angelus Press and The Angelus. From those early days of countless volunteers and old printing presses, we’ve grown beyond the boundaries of a traditional publishing houses...

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Pope St. Pius V

Pope St. Pius V

by Brent Klaske

The following article appeared in our May 1979 issue of The Angelus. We present it here again in honor of his upcoming feast this Sunday. The active life is concerned with men and things; the contemplative is in the realm...

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The Contemporary Catholic Crisis in its Historical Perspective: Arianism

The Contemporary Catholic Crisis in its Historical Perspective: Arianism

by Brent Klaske

Blog Note: The following text is posted to coincide with the feast of St. Athanasius. Written by Michael Davies, it originally appeared in the January, 1987 issue of The Angelus. In order to place the contemporary crisis in Catholicism in...

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St. Joseph the Worker

St. Joseph the Worker

by Brent Klaske

Today is the feast of St. Joseph the Worker. Instituted by Pope Pius XII in 1956, this feast is full of depth to be examined. From the humility and working life of St. Joseph, through the working of our Lord...

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Unnatural Civil Unions Now OK?

Unnatural Civil Unions Now OK?

by Brent Klaske

According to a number of reliable sources, Fr. Federico Lombardi, the head of the Vatican Press Office, issued the following statement two days ago: “It is a good thing for the child to know that he has a father and...

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The Solution to our Present Crisis?

The Solution to our Present Crisis?

by Brent Klaske

According to an article in The Local, a paper for German news in English, Archbishop Robert Zollitsch has called for a “return” to deaconesses in the Church at the conclusion of a multi-day conference to discuss possible Church reforms. In...

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Roman Forum 2013

Roman Forum 2013

by Brent Klaske

Founded in 1968 by Deitrich von Hildebrand, the Roman Forum has hosted, since 1991, an annual Summer Symposium in Gardone Riviera, on Lake Garda in Northern Italy. The purpose of this 10-day, 11-night symposium is to “introduce participants to a...

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Why No One Takes Catholics Seriously Today

Why No One Takes Catholics Seriously Today

by Brent Klaske

On Catholic News Service today, there is a story about events unfolding in the English Parliament. By way of background, the current laws of succession bar a Catholic from ascending to the throne of England, and additionally, prevent any children...

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The Seed of the Church

The Seed of the Church

by Brent Klaske

God’s Chosen People spent years laboring there under the Pharaohs; The Holy Family made their home in its borders while Herod sought the life of the Christ Child; St. Mark founded its famous Church at Alexandria; it was one of...

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The Ordeal of Fr. Kapaun

The Ordeal of Fr. Kapaun

by Angelus Press

Note: The following article appeared in our February 2008 edition of The Angelus, written by First Lieutenant Ray "Mike" Dowe, US Army. We present it again today in light of the news that Fr. Kapaun is today receiving, posthumously, the Congressional Medal...

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Understanding the Crisis: Archbishop Lefebvre and Religious Liberty

Understanding the Crisis: Archbishop Lefebvre and Religious Liberty

by Brent Klaske

In this second part of our series, Understanding the Crisis, we will examine the question of Religious Liberty and the response of Archbishop Lefebvre to this question specifically as found in his interventions at the Second Vatican Council, from the...

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