What are you currently reading?

[Prayerful]

I read that the author was a lesbian. Did she address that in her book?

I am not sure. I haven't read it yet. I think I might get it through my library so I'm not giving this lady money if I think she has questionable motives for writing the book. I don't know much about CMRI though, other than what I've read online. I don't like to read just one side of things, especially Catholic related issues. I was wondering if anyone had a recommendation for a book about CMRI.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22798281-spiritual-blackmail

http://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Blackmail-Journey-Through-Catholic-ebook/dp/B00KXL17XK

Reading of some reviews, it looks the sort of book that people hostile to Tradition read to buttress their view that it is hive of lunatics. Other reviews are more focussed in her experience in this book. Bishop Francis Schuckardt appears to have a notable part in the book, but he was ousted in 1984. Not a book I'd read.

[MundaCorMeum]

Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers, by Ralph Moody. I absolutely love this book. Such a heartwarming, moral story.

You're not the first person I've heard this from.....I've been wanting to get this for our family library.

[Clare]

My Life With Thomas Aquinas by Carol Robinson. A series of essays from Integrity Magazine written from  1946 to 1956 on applying Aquinas to
modern problems. From Angelus Press. Very good and still quite relevant.

I have this book.

I need to read it.

I recommend it too. I read it a few years ago, and intend to read it again before long.

Meanwhile, I've just started on Nineteen Eighty-Four.

[MilesChristi]

Finishing the Paradiso

[red solo cup]

Inside Out: A True Nun's Story by Sister Ann Edward O.P.

[Elizabeth]

I'm afraid I might be opening a can of worms here, but has anyone read Spiritual Blackmail: My Journey Through A Catholic Cult by Sherri Schettler? Sounds interesting. About CMRI. Is there an alternate viewpoint available?

There used to be a forum of survivors from the bad old days of Schuckhardt...it used to be horrible there, but oddly, I couldn't help but think that their harsh penances had "payed off", because they were just lovely, really humble Catholics.  No ugliness of a type which infects some forums.   Reading that forum (and Sherri sounds like a member of it) really helped me in the time of doubt when we were in a rival of the CMRI cult.

I thought they had completely cleaned up their act.

I can't figure out how to download a free PDF copy. 

[Fleur-de-Lys]

I'm afraid I might be opening a can of worms here, but has anyone read Spiritual Blackmail: My Journey Through A Catholic Cult by Sherri Schettler? Sounds interesting. About CMRI. Is there an alternate viewpoint available?

Oh... This is concerning. My family is going to be moving soon, and the CMRI is one of our only options for the TLM. I don't know anything about them, but at first glance they looked very orthodox. Any information would be appreciated.

[Fleur-de-Lys]

I'm afraid I might be opening a can of worms here, but has anyone read Spiritual Blackmail: My Journey Through A Catholic Cult by Sherri Schettler? Sounds interesting. About CMRI. Is there an alternate viewpoint available?

Oh... This is concerning. My family is going to be moving soon, and the CMRI is one of our only options for the TLM. I don't know anything about them, but at first glance they looked very orthodox. Any information would be appreciated.

I should probably start another thread rather than derail this one. Sorry!

[Kaesekopf]

I'm afraid I might be opening a can of worms here, but has anyone read Spiritual Blackmail: My Journey Through A Catholic Cult by Sherri Schettler? Sounds interesting. About CMRI. Is there an alternate viewpoint available?

Oh... This is concerning. My family is going to be moving soon, and the CMRI is one of our only options for the TLM. I don't know anything about them, but at first glance they looked very orthodox. Any information would be appreciated.

I should probably start another thread rather than derail this one. Sorry!

From what I understand, CMRI purged the Schuckhardtian scourge pretty extensively.

[Fleur-de-Lys]

I'm afraid I might be opening a can of worms here, but has anyone read Spiritual Blackmail: My Journey Through A Catholic Cult by Sherri Schettler? Sounds interesting. About CMRI. Is there an alternate viewpoint available?

Oh... This is concerning. My family is going to be moving soon, and the CMRI is one of our only options for the TLM. I don't know anything about them, but at first glance they looked very orthodox. Any information would be appreciated.

I should probably start another thread rather than derail this one. Sorry!

From what I understand, CMRI purged the Schuckhardtian scourge pretty extensively.

So this is an isolated event that shouldn't be a problem elsewhere?

[Kaesekopf]

So this is an isolated event that shouldn't be a problem elsewhere?

As far as I know, yes.  But, I have never associated with CMRI folks, except for online. 

[Machaut1377]

Been reading off and on (and currently reading) The Book of Sainte Foy, trans. Pamela Sheingorn.

Also, just finished reading Bodies Like Bright Stars: Saints and Relics in Orthodox Russia, by Robert H. Greene.

[Bernadette]

Around the World in 80 Days. First time.

[zork]

Belgarath the Sorcerer by David Eddings (1995).

His books immediately preceding the one above were just awful, but a trad friend of mine recommended this anyway (while acknowledging the suckiness of Eddings' other books; with that in mind, I'm giving this one a chance.

[zork]

The Dain Curse by Dashiell Hammett (1929)

I usually read two fiction books at once.