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JoyfulMother

#135
October 27, 2013, 02:31:56 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on October 27, 2013, 09:34:14 AM
Just finished "Puritan's Empire" by Charles Coulombe. This was excellent. From 1492 up to Vatican II.
This was a real eye opener. I had no idea how much FDR changed the way government works.

I read this earlier this year.  Awesome book!  Amazing the puritan influence in America, it goes so deep, and I love how Coulombe shows the ways it affected the Catholic Church here in America.  The roots of Americanism.

He made one comment in the book that blew me away - that most European Catholics see the Baltimore Catechism as too soft and skirting heresy!  I wonder what catechism Coulombe would recommend?  I would love to ask him.

Der Kaiser

#136
October 30, 2013, 05:21:34 AM
"Deep book" Julius Evola Revolt against the Modern World. "Fun Book" Dracula Bram Stoker "School Book" Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Usually I just read two a "deep" and a "fun" one but, now I have a school book
"If a Pope changes the rites of the sacraments he puts himself outside the Church and is Anathema"-Pope Innocent III

"Rome will lose the faith and become the seat of Anti-Christ"-Our Lady of La Sallette

The hebrews have not recognized the lord, therefore we can not recognize the hebrews.-St Pius X

maryslittlegarden

#137
October 30, 2013, 08:09:06 AM
For a Child is born to us, and a son is given to us, and the government is upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called, Wonderful, Counsellor, God the Mighty, the Father of the world to come, the Prince of Peace

erin is nice

#138
October 30, 2013, 09:08:20 AM
Quote from: JoyfulMother on October 27, 2013, 02:31:56 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on October 27, 2013, 09:34:14 AM
Just finished "Puritan's Empire" by Charles Coulombe. This was excellent. From 1492 up to Vatican II.
This was a real eye opener. I had no idea how much FDR changed the way government works.

I read this earlier this year.  Awesome book!  Amazing the puritan influence in America, it goes so deep, and I love how Coulombe shows the ways it affected the Catholic Church here in America.  The roots of Americanism.

He made one comment in the book that blew me away - that most European Catholics see the Baltimore Catechism as too soft and skirting heresy!  I wonder what catechism Coulombe would recommend?  I would love to ask him.

Coulombe doesn't believe in Baptism of desire, so of course he will take issue with the Baltimore. I can find out for you what catechism he thinks people should use.

Larry

#139
October 30, 2013, 09:54:26 AM
Quote from: erin is nice on October 30, 2013, 09:08:20 AM
Quote from: JoyfulMother on October 27, 2013, 02:31:56 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on October 27, 2013, 09:34:14 AM
Just finished "Puritan's Empire" by Charles Coulombe. This was excellent. From 1492 up to Vatican II.
This was a real eye opener. I had no idea how much FDR changed the way government works.

I read this earlier this year.  Awesome book!  Amazing the puritan influence in America, it goes so deep, and I love how Coulombe shows the ways it affected the Catholic Church here in America.  The roots of Americanism.

He made one comment in the book that blew me away - that most European Catholics see the Baltimore Catechism as too soft and skirting heresy!  I wonder what catechism Coulombe would recommend?  I would love to ask him.

Coulombe doesn't believe in Baptism of desire, so of course he will take issue with the Baltimore. I can find out for you what catechism he thinks people should use.

It's probably the Catechism of St. John Neumann. That's the one that the St. Benedict Center recommends.
"At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love."-St. John of the Cross

Othmar

#140
October 30, 2013, 09:57:57 AM
I've been reading from Carl Sagan's Cosmos every now and then. Whenever he mentions historical stuff, it's really annoying. It's as if historiography never moved beyond Gibbon for him.

piabee

#141
October 30, 2013, 06:10:00 PM
Someday, Someday, Maybe, by Lauren Graham of Gilmore Girls and Parenthood fame.

I'm also getting my hair chemically straightened right now and I think the stylist forgot about me.

Parresia

#142
October 30, 2013, 06:15:44 PM
I'm working my way through the Navarre Study Bible series, and also reading Christ, the Ideal of the Monk, by Blessed Columba Marimon, OSB. 

dueSicilie

#143
October 31, 2013, 07:29:19 AM
"The Conquest of New Spain" by Bernal Diaz del Castillo, one of the Conquistadores  that conquered Mexico.

ConverteNosDeus

#144
October 31, 2013, 01:21:53 PM
I just finished reading The Scarlet Letter for my English class and I really enjoyed it.

Clare

#145
October 31, 2013, 04:28:23 PM
I've just finished The End of the Present World and the Mysteries of the Future Life by Fr Arminjon, and raved about by St Therese of Lisieux.

Lined up next is Archbishop Lefebvre's Pastoral Letters.
Motes 'n' Beams blog

Feel free to play the Trivia Quiz!

O Mary, Immaculate Mother of Jesus, offer, we beseech thee, to the Eternal Father, the Precious Blood of thy Divine Son to prevent at least one mortal sin from being committed somewhere in the world this day.

"It is a much less work to have won the battle of Waterloo, or to have invented the steam-engine, than to have freed one soul from Purgatory." - Fr Faber

"When faced by our limitations, we must have recourse to the practice of offering to God the good works of others." - St Therese of Lisieux

maryslittlegarden

#146
October 31, 2013, 07:50:12 PM
Quote from: Clare on October 31, 2013, 04:28:23 PM
I've just finished The End of the Present World and the Mysteries of the Future Life by Fr Arminjon, and raved about by St Therese of Lisieux.

Lined up next is Archbishop Lefebvre's Pastoral Letters.

I've been thinking of reading the Fr Arminjon book- did you like it?



Quote from: ConverteNosDeus on October 31, 2013, 01:21:53 PM
I just finished reading The Scarlet Letter for my English class and I really enjoyed it.

Hmmm- I should dig out that book and reread it.  It's been awhile.  Did you know that one of Nathaniel Hawthorne's daughters was a Catholic convert who started a religious community (the Hawthorne Dominicans)?
For a Child is born to us, and a son is given to us, and the government is upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called, Wonderful, Counsellor, God the Mighty, the Father of the world to come, the Prince of Peace

JoyfulMother

#147
October 31, 2013, 08:04:35 PM
We really need a book swap...  Some of these books I don't have access to or the money to buy.

I would like to red Abp. Lefevbre's "They Have Uncrowned Him".

Clare

#148
November 01, 2013, 03:48:13 AM
Quote from: maryslittlegarden on October 31, 2013, 07:50:12 PM
Quote from: Clare on October 31, 2013, 04:28:23 PM
I've just finished The End of the Present World and the Mysteries of the Future Life by Fr Arminjon, and raved about by St Therese of Lisieux.

Lined up next is Archbishop Lefebvre's Pastoral Letters.

I've been thinking of reading the Fr Arminjon book- did you like it?
Yes, it had some good insights. It doesn't seem to have an imprimatur, unless you count St Therese's endorsement.
Motes 'n' Beams blog

Feel free to play the Trivia Quiz!

O Mary, Immaculate Mother of Jesus, offer, we beseech thee, to the Eternal Father, the Precious Blood of thy Divine Son to prevent at least one mortal sin from being committed somewhere in the world this day.

"It is a much less work to have won the battle of Waterloo, or to have invented the steam-engine, than to have freed one soul from Purgatory." - Fr Faber

"When faced by our limitations, we must have recourse to the practice of offering to God the good works of others." - St Therese of Lisieux

Elizabeth

#149
November 01, 2013, 06:43:12 AM
Quote from: ConverteNosDeus on October 31, 2013, 01:21:53 PM
I just finished reading The Scarlet Letter for my English class and I really enjoyed it.

You DID????  Please share why!  My student is doing it for home school and it's killing me.  What am I missing?
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