A Short Life of Saint Joseph by Frits Albers

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A Short Life of Saint Joseph

by Frits Albers, edited by Frank Calneggia

In A Short Life of Saint Joseph, Frits Albers prayerfully explores the hidden life and formation of the man chosen as spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary and foster father of Christ. Drawing especially upon Sacred Scripture and parallels with the Old Testament patriarch Joseph, Albers seeks to illuminate Joseph’s growth in grace, holiness, and faithful obedience. The result is a deeply Catholic meditation inviting readers to know, honor, and love this remarkable guardian of the Holy Family.

Paperback: $12.95 | Audible: $14.99 | Kindle: $9.99

TESTIMONIALS

“Frits Albers brings Saint Joseph’s hidden life beautifully into view, revealing through Scripture a man formed by grace for an extraordinary vocation. This thoughtful meditation deepens our appreciation for Joseph’s faithfulness, humility, and fatherly love.” – Dr. Sebastian Mahfood, OP, Lay Dominican, Province of St. Albert the Great

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

 

Frits Albers Ph. B (1921-2000) was born in Holland and studied under the Jesuits at Nijmegen during the 1940s.  He emigrated to Australia in 1951, and travelled extensively within the south-east region of the ‘lucky country’.  He joined the Department of Education in Victoria and worked as a high school teacher who specialised in mathematics, French and English.

In the early post Vatican II period he realised that the strange interpretations of the recently concluded Council that were being forced upon Catholics were under pinned by the same philosophy he had been taught in the 1940’s by the Jesuits at Nijmegen in the name of St Thomas Aquinas, but which in reality was the systematic Modernism of Pierre Teilhard De Chardin, S.J. Thus, in the early 1970’s he began writing articles and books to expose the philosophical root of these errors and aberrations of Teilhard De Chardin, and to defend Catholic Faith, clear thinking, and right philosophy.

ABOUT THE EDITOR

 

The editor is a retired electrical engineer who worked for most of his professional career in the specialist area of power generation. In a sabbatical year, he completed post graduate research in the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Melbourne. He has long loved the philosophy of St Thomas Aquinas.

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Very Rev. Peter Samuel Kucer, MSA, STD, currently serves as President-Rector at Holy Apostles College and Seminary in Cromwell, CT. He received degrees from Middlebury College, Holy Apostles College and Seminary, the Dominican House of Studies, and the Catholic University of America. He is intent on putting his educational background at the service of the New Evangelization promoted by the recent popes.

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​ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Donald G Boland Ll. B. (Sydney), Ph. D. (Angelicum) is a founding member of the Centre for Catholic Studies Inc. in Sydney Australia and is one of its former Presidents. He practiced for a number of years as a lawyer having a degree in law from the University of Sydney. Over much the same time, having obtained a doctorate in philosophy from the University of St. Thomas in Rome, he has taught philosophy and law in both Catholic and secular educational institutions, such as the University of Technology, Sydney, the University of Newcastle, the Aquinas Academy, the Centre for Thomistic Studies Inc., now operating under the name of the Centre for Catholic Studies Inc., and various Catholic seminaries, such as those of the Marists and the Vincentians. His doctoral thesis was on the concepts of utility and value in economics as found in the works of Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas.

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TESTIMONIALS

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“The Sacrifice of Praise highlights an aspect so often overlooked in the liturgy wars, that worship should be grounded in truth and communion. “True worshipers will worship the Father in Spirit and Truth, for these are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.” Andrew Mioni reminds us that God does not care about forms and gestures more than He does about loving hearts. This work disarms the attacks of traditionalists, but just as importantly, encourages Catholics to authentic communion in God and His People through the Holy Mass.” — Gary Campbell, Former priest of the Society of St Pius X

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Andrew Mioni grew up in Kansas and earned his B.A. in English at Kansas State University. He currently lives in upstate New York, where he continues to pursue his writing aspirations. His website is andrewmioni.com.
 

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To His Face: Indefectibility and the Problem of Dissent by Andrew Likoudis

To His Face: Indefectibility and the Problem of Dissent by Andrew Likoudis

To His Face: Indefectibility and the Problem of Dissent 

By Andrew Likoudis

“But when Cephas came to Antioch,
I opposed him to his face.”

GALATIANS 2:11

When may a Catholic withhold assent from the teaching of the Church? In our day, the question is pressed from opposite directions — by progressives who appeal to conscience and progress within a secular frame of reference, and by traditionalists who appeal to their private understanding of Tradition (more accurately, ecclesial traditions) and the sensus fidelium — yet both, Andrew Likoudis argues, commit the same error.

Reading Lumen Gentium, Dei Verbum, and Donum Veritatis alongside Newman, Aquinas, Congar, and Bellarmine, To His Face argues that the indefectibility of the Church is the ground on which all genuine assent rests. A theologian may raise an honest difficulty — studying it, and submitting his concerns to the competent authority; what he may not do is adjudicate against what the magisterium has already determined, for the judgment of doctrine belongs to the living Church alone. To pronounce a rupture where the magisterium has not, whatever its conclusions, is the structure of theological liberalism.

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TESTIMONIALS

“Andrew Likoudis here takes up one of the most important topics facing the Church. Today, a significant number of Catholic theologians, bishops, and Cardinals openly reject solemnly enunciated doctrinal teachings of prior pontificates, including Pope Paul VI’s encyclical reaffirming two millennia of Church teaching on the immorality of contraception and Pope John Paul II’s apostolic constitution affirming that women cannot be ordained. Pope Francis—like Benedict XVI, John Paul II, and Paul VI before him—was regularly denounced by Catholic theologians, bishops, and Cardinals for leading the Church into ruinous error. Many of those denouncing Pope Francis had earlier strongly condemned others for denouncing his postconciliar predecessors, while more than a few of the public opponents of Pope Francis’s predecessors rose to positions of influence under Pope Francis. There is little clarity about the different weight of Magisterial teachings, about the possibility of various kinds of Magisterial error, or about the nature of religious submission and assent owed to each of the many affirmations in the large body of writings promulgated each year by a modern pope. The deplorable SSPX schism only adds further fuel to this fire. In this situation, Likoudis, along with scholars such as Robert Fastiggi and Emmett O’Regan, has staked out a constructive position that requires careful consideration by all who seek the good of Christ’s Church as obedient spiritual sons and daughters of the pope.” — MATTHEW LEVERING, James N. Jr. and Mary D. Perry Chair of Theology, Mundelein Seminary

“Andrew Likoudis offers a penetrating and comprehensive exposition of the principles governing the relationship between the theologian and the Magisterium. To repeat the same truth in different times, it is not enough to repeat the same words. This is why Jesus entrusted to Peter the task of being the authorized interpreter of His message, and promised him the assistance of the Holy Spirit. The Pope, and the bishops united with him, are the Teachers of the Faith. We, the faithful, are the students—all of us, even theologians, even the most learned and intelligent among them. Students, of course, have the right to ask questions, to seek explanations, even to propose alternative formulations in order to understand better. But on one condition: they must never forget that they are not the teachers and do not have the final say. Andrew Likoudis reminds us, very effectively, that the final say belongs to the Holy Spirit, who speaks through the Pope and the bishops united with him.” — ROCCO BUTTIGLIONE, Friend and Collaborator of Pope St. John Paul II; John Paul II Chair of Philosophy and History of European Institutions, Pontifical Lateran University; Ordinary Member, Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas

“It is remarkable how Likoudis has produced a text accessible to the layperson, rich enough for the seasoned theologian, and timely for our situation. I endorse this small but tremendous book.” – SUAN SONNA, Director of Apologetics, Diocese of Bridgeport

“A clear, concise, and measured contribution to the discourse on obedience in today’s ecclesial atmosphere, engaging honestly with authority, infallibility, and permissible criticism — to the real benefit of any concerned reader.” – ANDREW MIONI, Author of Ignorance of Things Divine

“Likoudis offers careful analysis of assent and dissent within the Church, mindful of the interaction between the levels of the magisterium… in full consciousness of the presence of the Word Incarnate, whom we seek in every act of assent.” – VERY REV. CANON FRANCIS V. TISO, Priest of the Diocese of Isernia-Venafro; former Associate Director, USCCB Secretariat for Ecumenical Affairs

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Andrew Likoudis is a Catholic scholar working in ecclesiology, ecumenism, and liturgy. He serves as Digital Editor of Where Peter Is and holds an M.A. in Catholic Studies from Franciscan University of Steubenville. He is the author of To His Face: Indefectibility and the Problem of Dissent (En Route, 2026), with a foreword by Robert Fastiggi and an afterword by Emmett O’Regan, and he organized and edited Faith in Crisis (En Route, 2025), a 40-chapter volume drawing some thirty contributors—among them Robert Cardinal Sarah, Jimmy Akin, and Mike Aquilina—with a foreword by Rocco Buttiglione, praised in Word on Fire’s Evangelization & Culture journal as “an impressive labor of love.” His most recent editorial work includes the fiftieth-anniversary edition of Yves Congar’s Challenge to the Church: The Case of Archbishop Lefebvre (En Route, 2026), which he edited and introduced, with a foreword by Larry Chapp, and the third edition of James Likoudis’s Ending the Byzantine Greek Schism (Emmaus Road, 2026), with a foreword by Scott Hahn—the opening volume of a trilogy on Catholic-Orthodox reunion. In all he has authored, edited, or compiled thirteen volumes on Catholic ecclesiology and the papacy, and published 60+ articles in outlets including the National Catholic RegisterPhilosophy NowFellowship & Fairydust MagazineCatholic Review, and Where Peter Is.

He is the grandson of Catholic apologist James Likoudis, President Emeritus of Catholics United for the Faith, and the nephew and godson of Paul Likoudis, longtime editor of The Wanderer, the oldest national Catholic weekly in the US. As founder and president of the Likoudis Legacy Foundation, which co-sponsored the 30th Orientale Lumen Conference attended by bishops of the Catholic and Orthodox Churches, he directs the foundation’s ecumenical journal The Kydones Review, which carries a foreword from Archbishop Flavio Pace, the Secretary of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity. Likoudis provides consulting, research, organizational strategy, and communications services to Catholic publishers, nonprofits, and institutions. He writes frequently at his Substack, Tradition & Renewal, and is a parishioner at the Baltimore Basilica—America’s First Cathedral. He enjoys kayaking, bachata, tennis, and chess. More at andrewlikoudis.com

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Challenge to the Church: The Case of Archbishop LeFebvre by Yves Congar, OP

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Challenge to the Church: The Case of Archbishop LeFebvre

By Yves Congar, OP, Edited by Andrew Likoudis

In 1976, as Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre’s defiance of Rome broke into open crisis, the Dominican ecclesiologist Yves Congar, OP, whose work shaped the Second Vatican Council, answered with this short, penetrating book. In it, he shows that what Lefebvre refused was nothing less than the authority of the Church and her understanding of her own nature, and he traces the deeper crisis behind the Écône movement.

Published on the fiftieth anniversary of its first appearance, this new edition arrives just as Écône once again proceeds to illicit episcopal consecrations. Congar’s case for Tradition as the living faith of the Church, not a frozen monolith, speaks directly to a wound that has never closed.

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TESTIMONIALS

“I welcome the publication of this new edition of Congar’s important and frank treatment of the schismatic Archbishop Lefebvre. One dares to hope that bishops and other Church leaders will read this work as they respond to a new challenge to the unity and peace of the Church.” – Rev. Gabriel Flynn, DPhil (Oxon), co-editor of Oxford University Press’s Ressourcement: A Movement for Renewal in Twentieth-Century Theology; author of Yves Congar’s Vision of the Church in a World of Unbelief; and editor of Yves Congar: Theologian of the Church

“Here is a new edition of a penetrating book by Congar, which comes at just the right time. Written in simple language, it provides the essential insights needed to understand the errors and dead ends of Archbishop Lefebvre’s schismatic movement.”  – Fr. Joseph Famerée, SCJ, Professor Emeritus of Theology, UCLouvain, Author of L’ecclésiologie d’Yves Congar avant Vatican II
“As Congar points out, the SSPX has chosen the path of Ignaz von Döllinger and, even more, the ‘Old Catholics.’  They, too, argued that it was the pope and Council that erred and that changed; they, too, claimed that they were Catholic and the Church under the pope, having embraced the Council, was aberrant.  Congar’s reflections on the rites of the Mass, too, are still instructive today, in an era of ritual absolutism–as are his reflections on ecumenism and religious freedom.  And he fully recognizes the crisis, even if his diagnoses and solutions would today need to engage even more fully with doctrinal liberalism and perspectivalism, a superficial liturgical and moral life, and the politicization of Christ and eschatology.” – Matthew Levering, PhD, James N. Jr. and Mary D. Perry Chair of Theology, Mundelein Seminary

“An entrenched, and often intransigent, schismatic attitude has long been a sad fact of the SSPX’s existence and way of operating. Although I have my theological differences with Fr. Congar (later Cardinal Congar), he was a man of the Church, and in this book he provides a voice and a message whose details could have been written today just as readily as when they were penned amid an earlier crisis vis-à-vis the Society. In the hope of a rapprochement that leads to the Society’s real and living recognition that it is called to live not the life of separatists but one of true and unfeigned ecclesial communion, I commend this little book to the reflection of today’s readers.” – Matthew K. Minerd, PhD, Managing Editor, Encyclopedia of Catholic Theology (ECT.org)

“A new edition of Congar’s book is welcome. Not because the situation today is exactly that of when the book was first published in 1976. It isn’t. Not exactly. A lot of holy and not so-holy water has flowed under the ecclesiastical bridge. On the one hand, the pontificates of John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and Francis affect how we read the book today. On the other, so do controversies with hardline critics who identify as “Traditionalists.” Yet Congar’s fundamental message remains. Reform of the Church’s life, including the Sacred Liturgy, brings with it certain tensions. Conversion always does. Often for both or many sides of an ecclesiastical controversy. This book can help reduce tensions, and foster conversion, if its message is heeded.” – Mark Brumley, President of Ignatius Press, Author of The Seven Deadly Sins of Apologetics, Editor of A Study Guide for Jesus of Nazareth: Holy Week

“Few books published in the aftermath of the Second Vatican Council have proven as enduringly relevant as Challenge to the Church. Fifty years ago, Yves Congar clearly identified and challenged the doctrinal errors and warped ecclesiology that continue to afflict the Lefebvrist movement even today. Congar’s analysis remains both prophetic and indispensable for anyone seeking to understand the historical roots of radical traditionalism and the Church’s ongoing struggle for unity after Vatican II.” – Mike Lewis, Founder and Managing Editor, Where Peter Is

“Challenge to the Church: the Case of Archbishop Lefebvre is as relevant today as it was in 1976. The attacks on the Second Vatican Council have regrettably increased since then, and traditionalism has gained an undeserved respectability. Congar, deeply conversant with the Council and its aims, addresses the traditionalists’ accusations with erudition, objectivity, and above all a love of the People of God. He treats the Lefebvre case with a care and courtesy Lefebvre’s supporters rarely reciprocate. In these days when the politics of polarization has infiltrated the sanctuary, it is refreshing to read a man whose overarching concern is communion based on love.” – Gary Campbell, Former priest of the Society of St. Pius X

“‘You cannot be the Church opposed to the Church.’ Such was the painful and prophetic appeal that Fr Congar addressed to Archbishop Lefebvre in 1976, just as the latter was embarking on the spiral of blindness and disobedience that would lead to a grave act of schism. The Dominican theologian pinpointed this contradiction at work within the SSPX: how can one defend Tradition by means unknown to Tradition and contrary to Tradition? Pitting ‘eternal Rome’ against ‘neo-modernist and neo-Protestant Rome’ stems from dangerously innovative and idealistic presuppositions, contrary to the realism of the one Church of Christ, concretely founded on the rock of Peter and on the unanimous communion of the whole episcopal college. Fifty years on, Congar’s appeal has lost none of its force. Following his example, let us not be afraid to awaken consciences and enlighten minds.” Fr. Henry Donneaud, OP, Dean of the Faculty of Theology, Institut Catholique de Toulouse, Editorial committee, Revue thomiste

“Yves Congar offers a masterful and deeply charitable examination of one of the most consequential ecclesial controversies of the twentieth century. With theological precision and pastoral wisdom, he challenges readers to embrace both fidelity to tradition and obedience to the living Church.” – Sebastian Mahfood, OP, PhD, President of En Route Books and Media

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Yves Congar (1904–1995) was among the most influential Catholic theologians of the twentieth century. A pioneer of ecumenism and of the theology of Tradition and the laity, he was silenced under Pius XII, then rehabilitated as a peritus at the Second Vatican Council, where his thought shaped its central documents. John Paul II created him a cardinal in 1994.

ABOUT THE EDITOR

Andrew Likoudis is a Catholic scholar working in ecclesiology, ecumenism, and liturgy. He serves as Digital Editor of Where Peter Is and holds an M.A. in Catholic Studies from Franciscan University of Steubenville. He is the author of To His Face: Indefectibility and the Problem of Dissent (En Route, 2026), with a foreword by Robert Fastiggi and an afterword by Emmett O’Regan, and he organized and edited Faith in Crisis (En Route, 2025), a 40-chapter volume drawing some thirty contributors—among them Robert Cardinal Sarah, Jimmy Akin, and Mike Aquilina—with a foreword by Rocco Buttiglione, praised in Word on Fire’s Evangelization & Culture journal as “an impressive labor of love.” His most recent editorial work includes the fiftieth-anniversary edition of Yves Congar’s Challenge to the Church: The Case of Archbishop Lefebvre (En Route, 2026), which he edited and introduced, with a foreword by Larry Chapp, and the third edition of James Likoudis’s Ending the Byzantine Greek Schism (Emmaus Road, 2026), with a foreword by Scott Hahn—the opening volume of a trilogy on Catholic-Orthodox reunion. In all he has authored, edited, or compiled thirteen volumes on Catholic ecclesiology and the papacy, and published 60+ articles in outlets including the National Catholic RegisterPhilosophy NowFellowship & Fairydust MagazineCatholic Review, and Where Peter Is.

He is the grandson of Catholic apologist James Likoudis, President Emeritus of Catholics United for the Faith, and the nephew and godson of Paul Likoudis, longtime editor of The Wanderer, the oldest national Catholic weekly in the US. As founder and president of the Likoudis Legacy Foundation, which co-sponsored the 30th Orientale Lumen Conference attended by bishops of the Catholic and Orthodox Churches, he directs the foundation’s ecumenical journal The Kydones Review, which carries a foreword from Archbishop Flavio Pace, the Secretary of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity. Likoudis provides consulting, research, organizational strategy, and communications services to Catholic publishers, nonprofits, and institutions. He writes frequently at his Substack, Tradition & Renewal, and is a parishioner at the Baltimore Basilica—America’s First Cathedral. He enjoys kayaking, bachata, tennis, and chess. More at andrewlikoudis.com

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