About the book: The title of this book alludes to Lumen Gentium number 23: “Each [individual bishop], as a member of the episcopal college and legitimate successor of the apostles, is obliged by Christ’s institution and command to be solicitous for the whole Church, and this solicitude, though it is not exercised by an act of jurisdiction, contributes greatly to the advantage of the universal Church.” No more perfect words can be found to describe the life and work of Bishop Athanasius Schneider, whose mind is held captive by Christ and whose heart goes out to “all the churches” (cf. 2 Cor 10:5, 11:28). The original book was called Catholic Church, Where Are You Heading?; the title has been changed for the American edition with an allusion to the important passage quoted above.
Over the years, Bishop Schneider has granted many illuminating interviews that serve as beacons for the storm-tossed faithful. This present volume collects seven of them: the substantial interview conducted with His Excellency by the Hungarian theologian Dániel Fülep in Kazakhstan in July 2018, plus six others dating from between 2015 and 2023.
In wide-ranging exchanges, we hear Bishop Schneider reflecting on versus populum, the validity of the new sacramental rites, celibacy, patriarchy, women’s ordination, papal elections, papolatry, Amoris Laetitia, La Salette, the conversion of Russia, the European Union, migration, Islam, the conversion of the Jews, Freemasonry, modernism, aggiornamento, the SSPX, the Neocatechumenal Way, praying the Rosary during Mass, Pius X’s reform of the breviary, episcopal conferences, and much else besides.
We stumble across delightful revelations: how the bishop’s little book Dominus Est changed the Vatican’s liturgical policy; how, after a lapse of 27 years, he was able to visit the priest, then 86 years old, who had given him his First Communion - and who then humbly served his Mass like an altar boy; the Soviet propaganda songs he had to learn as a child; why he chose “Kyrie eleison” as his episcopal motto.
In these edifying pages - A Shepherd Solicitous For The Whole Church: Bishop Athanasius Schneider In Conversation With Dániel Fülep & Others (2024) - we hear, again and again, the voice of a good shepherd who is truly and ardently solicitous for the whole Church.
About Athanasius Schneider: Athanasius Schneider ORC was born in Tokmok, Kirghiz SSR, in the Soviet Union. He is a Catholic prelate serving as the Auxiliary Bishop of Astana in Kazakhstan. He is a member of the Canons Regular of the Holy Cross of Coimbra. He is known for championing the pre-Vatican II liturgical traditions and practices of the Church and for protesting certain current policies, including some associated with Pope Francis. (Source: Wikipedia)
About Dániel Fülep: Dániel Fülep is a Roman Catholic theologian, biologist MSc and biology teacher. Born in Miskolc (Hungary), he completed his university studies at the University of Debrecen TTK and the Pázmány Péter Catholic University HTK. As a high school teacher and faith teacher catechist, he has a decade and a half of experience. He is the author and publisher of many theological and spiritual articles, studies. His field of research is the relationship between tradition and modernity.
About Peter Kwasniewski: Peter Kwasniewski is is an American traditionalist Catholic writer and composer. Over the past twenty years, Kwasniewski has published over 1,300 articles, both academic and popular, on sacramental and liturgical theology, the aesthetics of music, Thomistic thought, and the social doctrine of the Church. His articles have been translated into at least 18 languages. Dr Kwasniewski writes regularly for New Liturgical Movement, OnePeterFive, LifeSiteNews, Rorate Caeli, The Remnant, Catholic Family News, and The Latin Mass magazine. Many of his approximately 150 musical works have been performed in liturgical settings and in concert. He is a Fellow of the Albertus Magnus Center for Scholastic Studies and a Senior Fellow of the St Paul Center in Steubenville.
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