What are you currently reading?

[Bernadette]

Learning to Go to School in Japan: The Transition from Home to Preschool Life, by Lois Peak. Fascinating insight into cultural expectations governing life as a group in Japan, and how these are taught primarily in school, rather than at home. Gives me a lot of insight into my grandma's life.

When was that written?

1991, but the cultural principles aren't that recent.  This book is just explaining them to the Western mind.

[Lynne]

Learning to Go to School in Japan: The Transition from Home to Preschool Life, by Lois Peak. Fascinating insight into cultural expectations governing life as a group in Japan, and how these are taught primarily in school, rather than at home. Gives me a lot of insight into my grandma's life.

When was that written?

1991, but the cultural principles aren't that recent.  This book is just explaining them to the Western mind.

Ah... 

[Hat And Beard]

[red solo cup]

Treason: Liberal Treachery From the Cold War to the War on Terrorism by Ann Coulter. Some eye-opening stuff about Joe McCarthy.

[Michael Wilson]

Sacrae Theologiae Summa IB: On the Church of Christ • On Holy Scripture By Rev. Joachim Salaverri S.J. and Rev. Michaele Nicolau S.J.  The second volume of an eight volume set on Catholic Theology. Excellent. For any Catholic who wants to deepen the knowledge of their faith. Like Ott on steroids.
https://www.amazon.com/Sacrae-Theologiae-Summa-IB-Scripture/dp/0991226879/ref=pd_sim_14_3?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0991226879&pd_rd_r=ZZBM02EE2CFKEA6GKWER&pd_rd_w=mSlWQ&pd_rd_wg=RFu3p&psc=1&refRID=ZZBM02EE2CFKEA6GKWER
here is the publisher's review:

This English translation from the original Latin, On the Church of Christ • On Holy Scripture, is meant for seminarians and theology students who want to learn scholastic and Thomistic theology. This book is the second half of Volume I of the four volume series under the title of Sacrae Theologiae Summa, which was published in Latin in 1956 by the Bishops' Conference of Spain. The Spanish publisher is called B.A.C. The four volumes contain the treatises that cover all the basic dogmas of the Catholic faith and it does it in a detailed and scholarly way, with a heavy reliance on the teaching of St. Thomas Aquinas. One advantage of this Summa is that it gives the student the "theological note," that is, the grade of certitude for each thesis. Here you will learn what is a defined dogma of the Church, what is theologically certain, and what is just a theological opinion. The original publisher has given permission to publish the individual treatises as separate books, instead of the four large volumes of about 1,000 pages each. The project will take a few years and, when finished, should add up to eight volumes covering all the traditional courses of dogmatic theology: Revelation, Church, Scripture, The One and Triune God, Creation, Sin, Christology, Mariology, Grace, Virtues, The Seven Sacraments, The Last Things[note, the translation is finished and all 8 vol. Are availabl]. The text has not been altered from the original, with the exception of the references to Denzinger (D). The best available version is the 43rd Edition edited by Peter Hünermann and published by Ignatius Press. It is the translator's hope that this volume and those that follow will help theology students, whether seminarians or graduate students, to learn the great Catholic tradition of dogmatic theology which is based on the Holy Scriptures, the writings of the Fathers of the Church, the ecclesiastical Magisterium, and the works of St. Thomas Aquinas.

[Lynne]

Sacrae Theologiae Summa IB: On the Church of Christ • On Holy Scripture By Rev. Joachim Salaverri S.J. and Rev. Michaele Nicolau S.J.  The second volume of an eight volume set on Catholic Theology. Excellent. For any Catholic who wants to deepen the knowledge of their faith.
Like Ott on steroids.

Wow.

[LouisIX]

Sacrae Theologiae Summa IB: On the Church of Christ • On Holy Scripture By Rev. Joachim Salaverri S.J. and Rev. Michaele Nicolau S.J.  The second volume of an eight volume set on Catholic Theology. Excellent. For any Catholic who wants to deepen the knowledge of their faith. Like Ott on steroids.
https://www.amazon.com/Sacrae-Theologiae-Summa-IB-Scripture/dp/0991226879/ref=pd_sim_14_3?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0991226879&pd_rd_r=ZZBM02EE2CFKEA6GKWER&pd_rd_w=mSlWQ&pd_rd_wg=RFu3p&psc=1&refRID=ZZBM02EE2CFKEA6GKWER
here is the publisher's review:

This English translation from the original Latin, On the Church of Christ • On Holy Scripture, is meant for seminarians and theology students who want to learn scholastic and Thomistic theology. This book is the second half of Volume I of the four volume series under the title of Sacrae Theologiae Summa, which was published in Latin in 1956 by the Bishops' Conference of Spain. The Spanish publisher is called B.A.C. The four volumes contain the treatises that cover all the basic dogmas of the Catholic faith and it does it in a detailed and scholarly way, with a heavy reliance on the teaching of St. Thomas Aquinas. One advantage of this Summa is that it gives the student the "theological note," that is, the grade of certitude for each thesis. Here you will learn what is a defined dogma of the Church, what is theologically certain, and what is just a theological opinion. The original publisher has given permission to publish the individual treatises as separate books, instead of the four large volumes of about 1,000 pages each. The project will take a few years and, when finished, should add up to eight volumes covering all the traditional courses of dogmatic theology: Revelation, Church, Scripture, The One and Triune God, Creation, Sin, Christology, Mariology, Grace, Virtues, The Seven Sacraments, The Last Things[note, the translation is finished and all 8 vol. Are availabl]. The text has not been altered from the original, with the exception of the references to Denzinger (D). The best available version is the 43rd Edition edited by Peter Hünermann and published by Ignatius Press. It is the translator's hope that this volume and those that follow will help theology students, whether seminarians or graduate students, to learn the great Catholic tradition of dogmatic theology which is based on the Holy Scriptures, the writings of the Fathers of the Church, the ecclesiastical Magisterium, and the works of St. Thomas Aquinas.

Author: SJ
Author: SJ
Translator: SJ

[Gardener]

Fr. Baker is solid...

[Bernadette]

Heidi and On the Banks of Plum Creek. It's like comfort food for the mind. :/

[Kaesekopf]

Fr. Baker is solid...

I think Louis is teasing because it's a theology text that "is meant for seminarians and theology students who want to learn scholastic and Thomistic theology", but it's all being done by Jesuits, with no collaboration or work by Dominicans. 

(Not that I blame his teasing...)

[maryslittlegarden]

Heidi and On the Banks of Plum Creek. It's like comfort food for the mind. :/

My grandparents lived about an hour or so from where Laura lived on Plum Creek (or Walnut Grove).  Lovely area and a favorite book. 

[Gardener]

Fr. Baker is solid...

I think Louis is teasing because it's a theology text that "is meant for seminarians and theology students who want to learn scholastic and Thomistic theology", but it's all being done by Jesuits, with no collaboration or work by Dominicans. 

(Not that I blame his teasing...)

The only thing being done is translation. The text is from 1956 and Fr. Baker is translating it.

Dominicans cannot even update their own house of studies site with more English translations of St. Thomas' works. Why on earth would they get to translating an entire massive volume.

[Michael Wilson]

Re. The Jesuits and Thomism; I read this book by Louis Jugnet entitled: "La Pensee de St. Thomas d'Aquin" its purpose is to introduce laymen to the thinking of St. Thomas Aquinas; he gives a short history of the history of Thomism with its gradual decline and almost total eclipse in the 18th C. By Cartesian philosophy:(My translation)
That we owe the survival of Thomism not only to the in  Jesuits in general,  but to the Spanish Jesuits in particular: 
Pg. 226:

By the XVIII C. Scholasticism, whether thomistic or other appeared to be dead. Apart from a few cloisters and universities, especially in the Southern countries (Spain and Italy), it had practically ceased to exist. Even the Ecclesiastical meliux had been penetrated by modern philosophies, especially the Cartesian. Perhaps, however, it is this perseverance in the state of misunderstood and almost exhausted trickle of water, on the part of some Italians and Spaniards, that we owe (in terms of immedite causes, or rather Material conditions), the modern Renaissance of Thomism.
Nineteenth century: Two stages: A) Before the encyclical Aeterni Patris, that is to say -1800-1879: While Cartesianism, ontologism (a system analogous to that of Malenbranche in some respects) impregnated the Catholic minds; some Spanish Jesuits, expelled from their home,  Had found refuge in Italy, notably at Naples. Formed in scholasticism, and even perhaps Thomists of strict observance (despite some suarezian influences), they taught a handful of Italian priests that were unhappy with the philosophy that they were taught, and made them rediscover Thomism. Once gained, these new disciples spread the doctrine, despite a very violent opposition. Among the valorous were Vincenzo Buzzetti (1777-1824) and Domenico Sordi. Then the Jesuites Liberatore (1810-1872), Taparelli d'Azeglio ((1793-1862), Cornoldi (1892) and the Dominican Zigliara (1833-1893) with his brother Sanseverino (1811-1865), who produced on the one hand, neo-scholastic societies, on the other hand, vigorous polemical works of actuality; and in Spain Cardinal Gonzalez, in Germany the Jesuit Kleuten, in France a laic, Count A. de Margerie and Others...

[PerEvangelicaDicta]

This thread is very valuable for 1) adding to one's library  2) gift ideas

In addition to daily Catholic references, I also often review Living a Beautiful Life - Alexandra Stoddard, and Drinking with the Saints - Michael P. Foley. 

[LouisIX]

Fr. Baker is solid...

I think Louis is teasing because it's a theology text that "is meant for seminarians and theology students who want to learn scholastic and Thomistic theology", but it's all being done by Jesuits, with no collaboration or work by Dominicans. 

(Not that I blame his teasing...)

The only thing being done is translation. The text is from 1956 and Fr. Baker is translating it.

Dominicans cannot even update their own house of studies site with more English translations of St. Thomas' works. Why on earth would they get to translating an entire massive volume.

This presupposes that the pre-conciliar Jesuits were worth listening to.