Arthur Preuss (1871–1934) was a German-American journalist, editor and writer. He is noted for editing the ''Fortnightly Review'' and opposing

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and

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. He was a conservative intellectual whose father, Eduard Friedrich Reinhold Preuss, had also edited a

Catholic The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ...

newspaper. Preuss was a layman in St Louis. His ''Fortnightly Review'' was a major conservative voice in English and read closely by church leaders and intellectuals from 1894 to 1934. He also edited a Catholic newspaper in St. Louis. Intensely loyal to the Vatican. Preuss upheld the German Catholic community, denounced the heresy of Americanism, promoted the

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, and anguished over the anti-German America hysteria during

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. He provided lengthy commentary regarding the National Catholic Welfare Conference, the anti-Catholic factor in the presidential campaign of 1928, the hardships of the

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, and the

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of the

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.Rory T. Conley, ''Arthur Preuss: Journalist and Voice of German and Conservative Catholics in America, 1871-1934'' (1998).

Works

*''Study on American Freemasonry''
'A dictionary of secret and other societies. Comprising masonic rites, lodges, and clubs; concordant, clandestine, and spurious masonic bodies, non-masonic freemasons Organizations to Which only are ADMITTED, mystical and occult societies, fraternal, benevolent and beneficiary societies, political, patriotic, and civic brotherhoods; Greek fraternities and sororities letter, military orders and ancestral; revolutionary brotherhoods, and many other Organizations
', St. Louis, Mo. / London: B. Herder Book, 1924. *''Freemasonry And The Human Soul'', Kessinger Publishing. *''Masonic Morality and Benevolence'', Kessinger Publishing.

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