Dr. Peter Kwasniewski
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Yes, thank you, Ben. Os Justi, the name Os Justi, comes from the introit of the mass for the confessors of the church, the mouth of the just, Os Justi. And, you know, I thought I would name the company with an easy-to-remember name like Kwasniewski, my last name.
That's just a joke. But anyway, Aus Justi Press. We publish about 100 titles right now. As the very name of the press suggests, a very special focus we have is in the area of the Catholic liturgy. For example, we just published
The first ever translation of Dom Prosper Guéranger's work, Liturgical Institutions. You can see it there scrolling by. But really, I mean, we publish books in theology, philosophy, literature. I've got novels and poetry by Catholic authors. We publish interviews. There's one with Bishop Schneider whom we've been talking about. You know, I do reprints of old classics that are out of print from the 20s, the 30s, the 40s. I mean,
There is an abundance of great Catholic literature, both being written now, freshly, and also forgotten from the past, and so I see it as the role of Aus Justi to really bring both of those worlds to my readers.
I would say that about half of the books we publish are more of an academic nature. I have a PhD in philosophy. I taught for many years at the university level, for 20 years. And so naturally, I receive manuscripts, monographs of an academic nature. I'm just about to publish a textbook on soteriology, the theory of salvation.
in St. Thomas Aquinas and the Catholic Magisterium. And so some of the works are more specialized. But on the other hand, I also want to bring out works that are going to benefit the average layperson who just wants to learn about this or that aspect of the Catholic faith. For example, you might have seen it scrolling past on that screen, but I just published
a book on the Cristero counterrevolution and the battle for the soul of Mexico. This is a very accessible, it's the best one-volume treatment of the Cristero conflict ever written. It was originally in Spanish, we've translated it into English.
It's a beautiful book. It's a very moving and inspiring book. And it's one that, it grips you right from the beginning because it's telling the story about these lay people who took up arms, tens of thousands of lay people took up arms against their Freemasonic anti-Catholic government. This was between the years of 1926 and 1929. And they were winning. They were winning this fight. It's an incredibly inspiring story. There were martyrs galore, hundreds and hundreds of martyrs. So that's the kind of book I want to reach
you know, a big audience with a story like that, because we should be proud of these people. Most Catholics, maybe they've heard of the Mexican martyrs, you know, blessed Miguel Pro, you know, they might have heard of some of these people, but they don't know the story, they don't know how incredibly gripping it is. So that's the kind of thing that I bring out. Also, another example would be this little pamphlet, Sacred and Great, which is an introduction by Joseph Shaw to the traditional Latin mass. You know, we know we're living in a time where
The Catholic Church, bizarrely, is exhibiting what I would call an autoimmune condition. That is, the Church seems to be attacking itself. And you have hierarchs who are attacking the most noble and ancient and beautiful liturgy of Christendom, the Roman Rite, the Tridentine Rite. And I call it Tridentine, but it goes back 1600 years. So I see it also as very much a part of my mission, my apostolate,
to educate people about the glory of the traditional Western liturgy, the traditional Roman rite. And we do that with many, many different publications. Wow. Viva Cristo Rey, by the way. OK, so we'll be back.
Yes. Well, I've been reading Father Perricone's work for years, and indeed he's been reading my books and essays for years too. So we've known each other for a while. We both, in fact, are from New Jersey. I mean, he's always been in New Jersey. I spent the first 18 years of my life in New Jersey. But apart from our common love of the traditional Latin liturgy, I just find Father Perricone an extraordinary writer in several respects.
He is incredibly eloquent. I mean, his vocabulary is enviable. He knows exactly le mot juste, just the right word for any topic that he's trying to describe or skewer or exalt or whatever the case may be. And so he's a fine writer, but he's also
Very logical, very precise. He's a Thomist. I admire that. He brings light rather than heat. And what I find to be the case in almost the entire world of digital discourse nowadays is that people are constantly starting fires. They're constantly shooting each other with flamethrowers. There's a lot of heat, but there's very little light. And what we need are clear and precise words.
and learned writers like Father Perricone. What I think is amazing about his book is that these are short essays. You can read one of them before you go to bed at night. Very easy and very digestible, and yet always very acute and very profound. I wouldn't publish a book of essays otherwise. The essays have to be top-notch in order to merit being gathered and published as one volume.
No, I was just thinking about how Father, he mentioned that if they could get rid of St. Thomas, then modernism could triumph. And I was just reminded of what Busser, one of the famous early Protestant reformers, said. He said, if we could only destroy the works of St. Thomas Aquinas, then we would triumph. So I thought I saw your finger. I thought I saw your finger raising. I thought you wanted to cut in. I'll keep my finger cut in.
Yes, thank you. You mentioned that before. So Pelican Plus is a new digital platform by Catholics for Catholics. Six of us co-founded it. People might have heard of some of my co-founders like Timothy Flanders and Kennedy Hall.
Nicholas Cavazos, Edward Schaefer. We are putting together basically a place where there will be streaming content, exclusive shows like The Great Indoctrination, that's coming on November 15th, an amazing program about the fate of education and what we can do about it. Charles Coulombe writes for us too, so you can stream video, you can read in the forum section, that's where I put out my essays.
And you can also pray. There's a prayer section of that where people can listen to and join in with the divine office, with the daily mass readings for the traditional Latin mass, with rosary in English, in Latin, chanted, spoken. You know, there's a lot of material that we're making available, so people really should check it out. It's a wonderful, wonderful venture.
Where do people go then for Pelican Plus and the rest of social media to keep up with your output, Dr. Krasniewski? Yes, all you'd have to do is search for Pelican Plus and it will come up right away, the app address. I have my own website, peterkrasniewski.com, and also there's of course osjustipress.com.
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