Issue: October 2010
Letter from the Editor
Having received much positive feedback following the expanded edition of The Angelus in March 2010, we decided to use the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the founding of the SSPX to highlight the event by dedicating a special edition to it.
Interview with Fr. Niklaus Pfluger
In this interview with Angelus Press, Fr. Pfluger, First Assistant of the Society of St. Pius X, speaks about the growth of the SSPX around the world and the challenges it faces.
The 1974 Declaration
Archbishop Lefebvre's famous declaration of November 21, 1974. In a moment of indignation, the old prelate, in one stroke of the pen and without a scratch, wrote this declaration of principle as a rebuttal to Modernism.
The Authority of Vatican II
The Pope’s power is not above revealed truth, Archbishop Lefebvre reminded his seminarians at Ecône on December 19, 1983. The laws of the Church are at the service of the Faith.
Towards an Evaluation of Music
The music of the 18th century achieved this perfection for, although the fact of this perfection is common knowledge, an explanation of it is not usually set forth in an analytic manner, i.e., in relation to sound principles of art and to principles of music specifically.
Legal Proceedings Against Catholic Priests Under Nazism
Norbert Clasen For several months self-righteous outrage in the public media has fallen on the Catholic Church throughout Germany as if on command. Looking back on the legal proceedings during...
A Brief History of the Society of St. Pius X
A Brief History of the Society of St. Pius X On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X, we present a revised and updated history. Long...
Interview with Fr. Sten Sandmark
Almost four weeks after his ordination as a Catholic priest in the SSPX seminary at Zaitzkofen, Germany, the Union of the Nations of Christian Europe (UNEC) conducted an exclusive interview with Rev. Fr. Sten Sandmark, formerly a Lutheran pastor in Sweden, for the Internet site La Porte Latine.
Dante's Purgatorio
Dr. David Allen White The question of the nature of art is a complicated and interesting one. The relationship between faith and art is also admittedly difficult. The question is important. As a preface to a further consideration of the Purgatorio, let us consider these questions further.
The Meaning of Waiting
Literature often has many profound truths to teach us about reality. In the 20th century, two plays stand out as presenting alternate worldviews. One represents the spirit of the age; the other recalls the Catholic way.
The Lord's Prayer
Material prosperity is deceptive and is only a facade behind which there is often an ambivalent emptiness. Behind material satiety and external freedom there is often the spiritual famine of a “culture of death.” Freedom is only superficial, and a high price is paid for it: dependencies, mental defects, and deformities.
Church and World
The rights of girls and Catholic lay faithful to carry out certain roles on the altar are not prescribed as “rights” within the Church, according to the Church’s top legal authority, Archbishop Raymond Burke. The statement came in a clarification he wrote about the consequences of the reintroduction of the Latin Rite Mass by Pope Benedict.
Questions and Answers
Does mortal sin destroy merit forever? No merit for good deeds is properly our own, for no act can be supernaturally meritorious except through the merits of Our Lord Jesus Christ,...
The Last Word
Every time a catastrophe occurs somewhere ... modern man breaks loose in a cataract of commentaries. Some see it as proof that God does not exist, since—to the contrary—He would prevent such events from happening.
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