Issue: September 2021

Letter from the Publisher

Fr. John Fullerton District Superior, USA Dear Reader, I am pleased to welcome you to the second issue of The Angelus following the new format inaugurated in the July/August edition....

Faces New and Old

Introducing Our Regular Authors FR. DOMINIQUE BOURMAUD, SSPX, Managing Editor Fr. Bourmaud has spent the past 40 years at various posts including teaching at the SSPX seminaries in...

Mater Misericordia

The Visions of St. Bridget of Sweden Dr. Amy Fahey When I was a young, intellectually curious undergraduate, my rediscovery of the Faith coincided with a deep interest in literature and...

Hildegard von Bingen: Féminine Mystique

By Dr. Andrew Childs, D.M.A. Self-portrait by St. Hildegard. Holy Mother Church: the name our Faith gives the Church serves as the point of departure in considering the current theme of...

Mary’s Not-So-Painless Labor

The Crucifixion as the Birth of the Church By Jonathan Wanner Most devout Catholics would be hard-pressed to think of a Marian poem outside of the familiar chants, carols, and hymns that...

A Lover for All Seasons

The Song of Songs and the Madonna of the Quail Prof. David Clayton How do you paint the love of God? Love is not something we will ever see directly, and this creates difficulties for...

What a Woman Must Do

The Feminine Mystique Versus the Brigades of St. Joan of Arc By John Rao, D. Phil. Oxon. Forgive me for beginning this article for The Angelus issue on women with reference to a term...

St. Catherine of Siena: Esto Vir

By Michael Cassman Virgin, Hermit, Mystic Caterina di Jacopo di Benincasa was the twenty-second child born to devout parents in the Republic of Siena on March 25, 1347. Naturally...

Women’s Ordination

By Michael Warren Davis Even when I was a boy, growing up in the Episcopal Church, my favorite part of our Sunday service was the Lord’s Supper. Our parish thought it was definitely on...

Sermon to the SSPX Sisters, April 10, 1983

April 10th, 1983 — St. Michael en Brenne, France By Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre Today, on this Quasimodo Sunday, Providence has reunited almost all the religious of the Society of...

The Relation of the Sexes

By Pauper Peregrinus Every truth, even to the most humdrum, has two contrary errors. If there is only one bottle of milk in the refrigerator, then the hard-headed skeptic who insists there...

The Consecration

By Fr. Christopher Danel In this article we examine the moment of the Consecration in the Mass, presenting the work of Msgr. Nicholas Gihr in his fundamental liturgical commentary The Holy...

Judging a Tree by Its Fruits

By Fr. Alain Lorans, SSPX After the Council opened the Church to the modern world, what future lay in store for parishes and seminaries? Considering the consequences of the Council’s...

Questions & Answers

Fr. Juan Carlos Iscara, SSPX Aquinas counts vengeance among the virtues. But isn’t taking revenge a bad thing? Among the social virtues, those that facilitate the life of men in...

Interview with Fr. Jacques Emily, SSPX

Prior of St. John Vianney Priory & Chaplain of the SSPX Sisters’ Novitiate in Browerville, MN By Fr. Dominique Bourmaud, SSPX Dear Father, would you tell us about your...

The Last Word

Fr. David Sherry District Superior of Canada Dear Reader, The Catholic Church is condemned by many. But, according to G.K. Chesterton, the heretics witness that She is condemned for...