What are you currently reading?

[Clare]

Clare, is there a link to either of those on Amazon or elsewhere online? I couldn't find either of them for Kindle.

I don't know anything about Kindle, but Abebooks seems to have the cheapest copy of the Shane Leslie book, although it makes up for it in postage! The Tablet archive has some excerpts.

I can't find much else regarding Fr Thurston's book except what comes up on Amazon.

[LausTibiChriste]

The Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska

If previous threads are to be believed, some of you will commend me, some will condemn me 

Trying to impress them Polish girls, eh?

I do that without the book son.

[maryslittlegarden]

Fatima Priest

for Father Gruner. 

[TPC]

Principles of Catholic Theology,  by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI).

An intellectual intellectualizing on the intellectualization of the Catholic Faith pre and post Vatican II from various perspectives.

Admittedly, it can be argued that, however great Gregory (of Nazianzus) may have been as a theologian, as a person he was a hypochondriac and possessed of an oversensitive artistic nature.

pg. 368.

If it is desirable to offer a diagnosis of the text as a whole (Gaudium et spes), we might say that in conjunction with the texts on religious liberty and world religions it is a revision of the Syllabus of Pius IX, a kind of countersyllabus...Let us be content to say here that the text serves as a countersyllabus and, as such, represents, on the part of the Church, an attempt at an official reconciliation with the new era inaugurated in 1789.

pg. 381, 82.
(bold emphasis added)

Was the Council (Vatican II) a wrong road that we must now retrace if we are to save the Church? The voices of those who say that it was are becoming louder and their followers more numerous. Among the more obvious phenomena of the last years must be counted the increasing number of integralist groups in which the desire for piety, for the sense of mystery, is finding satisfaction. We must be on our guard against minimizing these movements. Without a doubt, they represent a sectarian zealotry that is the antithesis of Catholicity.

pg. 389

[Michael Wilson]

Thanks for the quotes TPC; keep them coming.

[TPC]

Thanks for the quotes TPC; keep them coming.

Lol. I see where you are coming from. He does have extensive footnotes which (at least to me) take different perspectives and have some interest spanning the history of the Church.

I came across a text by Eusebius of Caesarea, who, in the year 325, had participated in the first ecumenical council in the history of the Church - the Council of Nicaea - and had formulated his impressions of this ecclesial assembly...

pg. 367

I bought his book primarily to see his point of view in full context after I had read partial quotes taken from his book on the internet (ha, like this post).   

[Michael Wilson]

What do you think, so far?

[piabee]

"Matt & Ben" by Mindy Kaling and Brenda Withers

[TPC]

What do you think, so far?

I disqualify myself in the sense that my goal for reading this book was for specific information and selected topics to understand rather than general discovery. In particular, searching for evidence of a connective tissue or converging/overlapping ideologies espoused by Vatican II, Enlightenment/ Masonic Principles (Albert Mackey Albert Pike), and a Thelemic/ Crowleian world view (do what thou wilt);....based on a primal liberty of conscience. Of recent, coming upon weird synchronicities between these diverse groups has driven me (in my off time) to search for objective data to link them. An admitted prejudice. But my thoughts so far...     

His approach (B16's) reminds me of somebody 'thinking out loud,' in print. Revealing his philosophy behind his reasoning. In particular, towards the concept of 'Church' in it's worship, doctrines, morality, and government. He liberates his conscience in the sense of stating his perceptions outside of structure and boundaries to what the Church has previously taught into searching creatively to break down the struggles facing the social existence of man in relation to religion. A tall order considering he's addressing both Catholic and non-Catholic communities; both in isolation and with each other in the search for a higher spiritual existence through the vehicle of religion.

His methodology gives weight to the needs of man into re-evaluating Catholic theology as a time dependent anachronism in It's claims of the immutability of her dogmas and doctrines; her constitution and liturgy. Seemingly affected is the apostolicity of the Church, if viewed in threefold: of origin, of teaching, and succession -- to which these concepts are also examined in reference to the needs of man, the current general landscape, and the reality of the Church (Conciliar) adapting to the changing realities of her environment.

His perspectives include and range from Luther to the Patristic Fathers in an amalgamation of concepts and ideas to reconcile previous doctrinal disagreements into perhaps a new way to look at old divisions and religious demarcations. For example, in bringing up the broad and complex topic of the connection between 'salvation and history', Ratzinger calls upon Karl Rahner and breaks down the good and the questionable to this modern Theologian ...

I propose to outline here the most effective and surely the most penetrating of these attempts: that of Karl Rahner, who wrestled with the problem in his early work Hörer des Wortes and later undertook to build on that beginning, particularly with his concept of the anonymous Christian.

pg. 162

[red solo cup]

The Gentleman in the Parlour by Somerset Maugham

[Michael Wilson]

TPC,
thank you so much for your thoughtful and interesting post.

[Arun]

The Pilgrim continues His Way, the Bacovcin translation. both this and the first part (Way of A Pilgrim) are primo spiritual reading.

[JubilateDeo]

[Kaesekopf]

Good choice

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[piabee]

...on the train. So meta.