Issue: October 2008

Letter from the Editor

Newly-appointed editor Fr. Heggenberger shares his impressions of and ideas for the future of Angelus Press.

Adolescence & Reality

To guide safely their children into full-fledged adulthood, parents must provide two things: conviction by way of an all-encompassing answer to the problem of life and courage in the strength to live that answer...

Politics According to Calvin

Claude Polin 

It is widely understood that Catholic anti-Communism cannot accept the liberal economic model as it is practiced in Europe. But what stands behind the liberal societies of Anglo-Saxon inspiration? What philosophy, and even what religion, underpins it?

BOOK Review: The Church at the Turning Points of History

Patrick McCarthy, M.A., reviews Godfrey Kurth's The Church at the Turning Points of History.

Serenity and Faithfulness in the Struggle

A passage from the recently published anthology of Archbishop Lefebvre's remarks on Priestly Holiness.

Catholic Social Revival and the Sleep of Reason

James Kalb, Esq.

We cannot work to revive the influence of Catholic principles on social life without an understanding of the present situation and its difficulties. At bottom, the way people make sense of things no longer makes sense. In this series I will discuss that difficulty and suggest ways of dealing with it.

Out to the Ball Game:

Dr. Andrew Childs

"Take me out to the ballgame, take me out with the crowds...": musings on America's favorite pastime inspired by a day at the local stadium.

Letter from La Reja

Bishop Richard Williamson gives a little news of the Seminary and its young men.

Catechism of the Crisis In the Church, Pt. 17

Fr. Matthias Gaudron

Is the Mass essentially a supper? The import of this idea, which cropped up in the Common Declaration of the Lutheran-Catholic Joint Commission, is examined.

Questions and Answers

Fr. Peter Scott

May a divorced person fulfill public functions in the Catholic community? Should one be proud to be a Catholic?