District Magazine

Although film and television were envisioned as another means to bring human artistry to a wider audience, it did not take long for unscrupulous persons to exploit this forum to spread vice.

In this issue we focus on the theme of Liturgical Living. It is easy to think of liturgy as external, something those raised to the priesthood “perform” or “do.”

The issue’s theme invites you to explore the important role women have played in the Catholic Church from its divine establishment through the present day.

A Woman’s Pilgrimage to the Holy Land in the 4th-Century My All-Night Vigil in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre Historic Sermon of 1982 by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre A Substantial Change in the Liturgy: Fr. Marcello Meditation on St. John’s Gospel Priestly Life, an Inside Look: Fr. Paul Robinson

Why would The Angelus want to cover topics such as economics, politics, problems touching on race, the connection of law & liberty, and the differences and problems of both democracy & socialism?  While they are not theological topics in themselves, the Catholic Faith does inform our understanding of these various social issues.

"The high contingent of Catholics on the island was composed largely of Irish prisoners of common crimes, but it gradually included educated political prisoners as well as honest men guilty of the 'crime of theft' fueled by starvation."

The veneration of images in the Church has a long and complicated history, the fruit of men’s gradual assimilation of the Christian faith.

“I have been able to confirm with great satisfaction the extraordinary development of the groups of faithful Catholics both at the chapels of our priest-friends and in the Society. St. Mary’s College, the school of St. Louis, Missouri, the beautiful chapel and rectory of Phoenix, and, at the last moment, the acquisition of a big church in Kansas City, are reasons to hope for the continuation of the Church in the United States.” —Archbishop Lefebvre (circa 1980)

"Not only was Modernism spreading throughout Europe; the intensity, the density and the sheer quantity of the polemics surrounding the movement gave it all the earmarks of a crisis within the Church herself."  - 100 Years of Modernism

"No, civilization is not something yet to be found, nor is the New City to be built on hazy notions; it has been in existence and still is: it is Christian civilization, it is the Catholic City."  —St. Pius X, Our Apostolic Mandate