Name Arthur Preuss | Role Journalist | |
Died 1934, St. Louis, Missouri, United States Books The Divine Trinity, a Dogmatic Treatise - Scholar's Choice Edition | ||
Arthur Preuss (1871–1934) was a German American journalist, editor and writer. He is noted for editing the Fortnightly Review and opposing Freemasonry and Eugenics. He was a conservative intellectual whose father, Edward Friedrich Reinhold Preuss, had also edited a Catholic newspaper.
Preuss was a layman in St Louis. His Fortnightly Review (in English) was a major conservative voice read closely by church leaders and intellectuals from 1894 until 1934. he also edited a Catholic newspaper in St. Louis. He was intensely loyal to the Vatican. Preuss upheld the German Catholic community, denounced the heresy of Americanism, promoted the Catholic University of America, and anguished over the anti-German America hysteria during World War I. He provided lengthy commentary regarding the National Catholic Welfare Conference, the anti-Catholic factor in the presidential campaign of 1928, the hardships of the Great Depression, and the liberalism of the New Deal.