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God Owes Us Nothing, Leszek Kolakowski, suggests that the Pope ended up condemning a Augustinian, Catholic understanding of grace. It does proceed carefully. For instance it shows the weakness of Arnaud's contrived defense of Jansenism, interpreting the Pope as having a meaning he could not have had, and how the royal chaplain Fr Annatus, who strongly supported the efforts against Jansenism, was quite careful not to caricature the doctrinal stance of Jansenius and the Arnauds. However, the author suggests that Annatus was wrong that a Papal condemnation of the five propositions in the sense of Jansenius, because Augustine could not be heretical. It suggests there was limited differences between Calvinism and Jansenism, that their positions on the iresistabilty of grace was 'a distinction without a difference.' The author notes how the 'Calvinist Pope' Jurieu who made a strong case for the conformability of Calvinism to Augustinianism, and who scornfully opined that the Pope barely understood the issue at hand, that he, 'understood of little of them as if they had spoken to him in Arabic.'

It does suggest the wisdom of an earlier Papal suppression of Jesuit-Dominican debates on those topics and matters close to it.
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No Bone Unturned: The Adventures of a Top Smithsonian Forensic Scientist and the Legal Battle for America's Oldest Skeletons by Jeff Benedict
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Ronald A. Knox, Englishing the Bible. Mgsr Knox sounded sensible, and makes a good case for his translation choices, and you sympathise how translation was traditionally expected to be a slight alteration from prior translations. Taylor Marshall doesn't like the Knox Bible for some reason.
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Mountains Beyond Mountains : The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder
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Annibale Bugnini: Reformer of the Liturgy, Yves Chiron. The Vincentian actually favoured extending the 'Agatha Christie indult' to the broader Church, which Paul VI rejected. Apparently con-celebration was a thing before V2, for ordination Masses and the consecration of bishops. Paul VI appears to have had a far greater hostility to anything Catholic than +Bugnini. During the preparation for V2, the Antepreparatory Commission, the then Cardinal Montini of Milan wanted a more 'theological and biblical' piety and to 'moderate unhealthy forms of piety turned towards various and often arbitrary devotions that run against liturgical piety and an authentic religious sense.' It can well be seen how the journey towards cold and empty churches with ugly and sterile sanctuaries accelerated. Even without V2, something approaching the 'New Mass' threatened. The Holy Week reforms happens without V2, to be obvious. I cannot imagine hearing Mass in a church where Fr Bugnini had some annoying paraphrased commentary running alongside Mass, Canon excepted.
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Quote from: Prayerful on December 10, 2020, 04:50:08 PM
Annibale Bugnini: Reformer of the Liturgy, Yves Chiron. The Vincentian actually favoured extending the 'Agatha Christie indult' to the broader Church, which Paul VI rejected.

Interesting.

Quote from: Prayerful on December 10, 2020, 04:50:08 PM

Paul VI appears to have had a far greater hostility to anything Catholic than +Bugnini.

That throws a fresh light on the history of the New Mass.

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Even without V2, something approaching the 'New Mass' threatened. The Holy Week reforms happens without V2, to be obvious.

True. You can read Carol Byrne's 100-part exposition on the "Liturgical Movement" at Tradition in Action.

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The Practice of the Love of Jesus Christ, by St. Alphonsus Liguori; I highly recommend this book to anyone looking for a book filled with practical spiritual advice; the pages are not numbered in the edition that I have, but I would estimate about 150-200; not very long and it is easy to read; here is the Editor's introduction:
QuoteThe Practice of the Love of Jesus Christ"
We have here one of the masterpieces of St. Alphonsus, a book that speaks to all hearts, that reveals to every Christian soul its true needs and true means to satisfy them. One cannot read this book without becoming better; nor can one grow tired in reading it again and again. It is indeed a very highly-prized and widely spread work. It was published in 1748.
The holy bishop, developing the celebrated text of St. Paul on the qualities of true love, explains in thirteen  chapters the principal virtues that we ought to practice and the defects that we ought to avoid in order to render our Lord love for love. He treats of patience in general (ch. 1), and in particular in sickness, poverty, and contempt (Chap. 10); of meekness (Chaps. 2 & 8); of purity of intention (Chap. 3); of tepidity, and the remedies against this vice, namely, the desire of perfection, the determination to attain perfection, mental prayer, frequent communion, and prayer (Chap. 4); of humility (Chap. 5); of ambition and vain-glory (Chap. 6); of detachment from all things, especially when there is question of following one's vocation (Chap. 7); of conformity to the will of God, and of obedience (Chap. 9); of faith (Chap. 11); of hope (Chap. 12); and, finally, of temptations, and spiritual desolation (Chap. 13). The work is concluded by a summary of virtues that are to be practiced. ED
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"My brothers, all of you, if you are condemned to see the triumph of evil, never applaud it. Never say to evil: you are good; to decadence: you are progess; to death: you are life. Sanctify yourselves in the times wherein God has placed you; bewail the evils and the disorders which God tolerates; oppose them with the energy of your works and your efforts, your life uncontaminated by error, free from being led astray, in such a way that having lived here below, united with the Spirit of the Lord, you will be admitted to be made but one with Him forever and ever: But he who is joined to the Lord is one in spirit." Cardinal Pie of Potiers

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Ceremonies of the Sarum Missal, R.J. Urquhart. It carries the Imprimatur of Bishop McKinney of Nottingham. The author offers his reconstruction of Sarum ceremonies. At every point there are footnotes offering alternatives. It concludes with an Ordo Missae with simple rubrics. It is somewhat expensive at £80 hardback, £50 Kindle.
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