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His Conciliar Octet: A Concise Commentary on the Eight Key Texts of the Second Vatican Council is a wonderful book to push back on the hermeneutic of rupture employed too often by progressives and Traditionalists. The book is in Polish, but I believe that Wyszyński’s upcoming beatification would be a fine opportunity for publishing an English translation; her book on St. Faustina has already been published in English and many other languages. Valiant Ambition, Nathaniel Philbrick. I interviewed him here. Elegant and aloof, Petronius quietly despises Nero’s brutal crimes for the same reason he loathes the emperor’s mediocre efforts at musical composition: They are ugly, stupid, and tasteless.By far the most moving scene in this novel, which is filled with moving scenes, revolves around the appearance in the arena of Ursus – the giant, doggedly-faithful barbarian who serves as Ligia’s bodyguard. Remaining in Russia, I also read Fr. And Shaun Blanchard’s book The Synod of Pistoia and Vatican II: Jansenism and Catholic Reform is enthralling for all sorts of reasons. And, finally, I would highly recommend Josef Pieper’s brief and terse Hope and History which, as the title promised, provides a window into that misunderstood virtue, the neglected middle child between faith and charity. Only some, but enough that one might pray it is enough. Christopher Caldwell, Age of Entitlement. Tolstoy’s treatment of grace, especially at the end of the novel, is not entirely unlike that of Evelyn Waugh in Brideshead Revisited. Allegory inhibits that effect since it assigns a singular and contrived meaning, the one–and only the one– given by the author. Adams, Karl – The Spirit of Catholicism Bouyer, Louis – Spirit and Forms of Protestantism Catholic Church – Catechism of the Catholic … Not Screwtape but still fun. Abandonment to Divine Providence, by Father Jean Pierre de Caussade. Gerald J. Russello is editor of The University Bookman. I mentioned finishing up some nonfiction, and some of those books relate to or deal directly with poetry: Roger Scruton’s On Beauty; Tolkien’s On Fairy-stories (an enjoyable re-read); James Matthew Wilson’s forceful The Fortunes of Poetry in an Age of Unmaking; and Timothy Steele’s enlightening Missing Measures: Modern Poetry and the Revolt Against Meter. Whether Hutter is right to contend that Newman can adequately serve as our Virgil is an open question. a co-founder of the Vatican newspaper Civiltá Cattolica. when he saw me reading this. It shows how the contemplative life is at the heart of the life of faith of all the baptized despite its difficulties and interior trials. Zipping through Zoom – with our four-year-old in tow – we were slowly getting back on track. This Georgetown professor sagely identifies three afflictions that define contemporary America: sacrificial scapegoating; a bipolarity of invincibility and impotence; and an addictive desire for the cheap and easy. But he isn’t happy, and he doesn’t have a single friend in the true sense of the word. This is a book that elicits both sadness and hope. Anyone with young girls in the family needs to read this. A new book out on August 4, The Next Pope: The Leading Cardinal Candidates (Sophia Institute Press) by the National Catholic Register's longtime Rome correspondent Edward Pentin (you … William Cash is right: “[Smiley’s, and Le Carré’s] is a fictional universe that is not populated by James Bond-style cardboard heroes and villains but rather a cast of misfits, loners and frauds who struggle to understand who they are as the moral certainties of earlier ages disintegrate and dissolve around them.”. And an updated rewrite of Ben-Hur by Lew Wallace’s great-great-granddaughter was a late surprise find. While I had read them previously, I had the occasion this past year of revisiting two of Robert L. Wilken’s books, Remembering the Christian Past (1995) and The Spirit of Early Christian Thought (2003). This arc follows Wimsey–English aristocrat and amateur detective–from his first meeting with Harriet Vane (on trial for murder in Strong Poison) through the progression of their relationship, carried out on the side while they solve mysteries. Celebrating a Holy Catholic Easter: A Guide to the Customs and Devotions of Lent and the Season of Christ's Resurrection William P. Saunders Tan Books / 2020 / Trade Paperback Skip to main content Menu: Top Buttons. Julian Carron’s Where is God?. His journal is a lively and consistently interesting picture of a man struggling (successfully) to practice Christian charity in the face of outrageous injustice and hostility toward himself and his Church. One critical incident involving the eponymous lead character forms an interesting parallel with the scene at Lord Marchmain’s death bed in Brideshead. McGinley proposes that the answer to the crisis of faith plaguing the Church is not returning to an unrealistically romanticized Catholic past but rather going back to the perennial teaching of the faith handed down to us through Scripture, tradition, her liturgy, sacraments and the lives of the saints throughout her history. This new book … The Talisman Ring (latest edition, Arrow Book 2005), The Foundling (2004) and The Reluctant Widow (2004) all reveal Heyer at her enchanting  est: well-paced, accurate in all the Regency details in which she so evidently delighted, cleverly worked, fun. Everybody needs a little Wodehouse in 2020. Tolkien: The Places That Inspired Middle-Earth, John Garth. The Next Pope: The Office of Peter and a Church in Mission. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr., is both horrifying and beautiful. Sort of. I will be forever grateful to my dear friend who is a subdeacon of the Antiochian Orthodox Church, for recommending that I read Everyday Saints and Other Stories by the Russian Orthodox Metropolitan, Tikhon (Shevkunov). Lee Smolin dissents. Be that as it may, the book is an important introduction to how Western culture got to be the way it is. Dr. Kelly Scott Franklin wrote an excellent review of it here for the CWR ]. Ever since I read this book, I have seen each room of my house as having a distinct divine purpose, as if God had determined that there ought to be living rooms, kitchens, bedrooms, and so on since before time in order for his plan to be best carried out. This was my introduction to Howard, and I was delighted to discover how much he writes like St. Francis de Sales or Thomas Kempis. The Golden Bowl by Henry James. I read Adriano Prosperi’s Crime and Forgiveness: Christianizing Execution in Medieval Europe (2020), which should be required reading for anyone interested in understanding the Holy Father’s peculiar notions of capital punishment. Prof. Michael P. Foley has given us a gift of a remarkable translation with helpful notes and an insightful commentary. The Priority of the Person is another brilliant addition to David Walsh’s philosophical project bridging Christian personalism and the modern (and postmodern) philosophical turn. I recommend The Miracle Detective to all Medjugorje skeptics. Others may say he’s probably right but how can we ever do what he says the times demand? Similarly, Christianity cared for the poor, the sick and the elderly – Christians outlived their pagan neighbors. His books are a bit racy to recommend to younger audiences, but are also filled with unexpected theological insight—a fairly profound explanation of the psychology of sin in one book, n explanation of Christ’s expiatory sacrifice in another. The Gulag Archipelago – Alexander Solzhenitsyn. We in our modernist age, our age of progress and science, often want to see in history some linear progression with logical and readily identifiable data points leading from stage A to stage B, to stage C.  Bergsma and Bennett both remind us, though, that the building of the Kingdom of God is, as Jesus’ teaching found in Mark 4 tells us, like a farmer who plants the seed and then watches it grow, though “he knows not how.”  It is only in the looking back that we can see that “of its own accord the land yields fruit, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.”(v. 28) Both books lead the reader to a deeper appreciation for and love of Scripture and, thus, Christ. Books like Terrence C. Wright’s Dorothy Day: An Introduction to Her Life and Thought (Ignatius Press) and DL Mayfield’s The Myth of the American Dream offer examples of how Christians can fight social injustice without sacrificing doctrinal orthodoxy and the primacy of personal sanctity. Her latest, Raising a Strong Daughter in a Toxic Culture, is a brave, powerful endorsement of parenthood – and a rallying cry for fathers. After the remote experience brought my wife and me so close to their daily assignments, we decided to start up a family book club. If a bit of moralizing crept in now and then, it didn’t spoil the wonder. On the subject of Russia, this meticulously researched book tells the story of Russia’s disastrous Revolution, the intrigue at the Romanov court in the last desperate years before the tsar was deposed and murdered, the complex factors that led to both the 1905 and 1917 uprisings and the massive human cost of a regime that left millions dead. St. Augustine, Against the Academics. From a more academic standpoint, the most rewarding book I read was Thomas Aquinas and the Greek Fathers. Fahrenheit 451 is a wallop at today’s cancel culture and politically correct purity. Don wrote the book while in the process of making his way to and into the Catholic Church, and it is a rich volume filled with evangelistic and apologetic tools. No matter what the governors say. Solovyov remains a thinker and visionary who continues to instruct and provoke. Second is Stephen Schmalhofer’s Delightful People, from Cluny Media, one of the most interesting publishing houses today and which is publishing or republishing important works. We lost John Le Carré (David Cornwell) very recently – he almost made it out of 2020 – and I’m hard-pressed to think of one of his books I wouldn’t recommend to readers, who are fans of the genre, or of history, or of both. Ronald L. Jelinek, Ph.D. is a Professor of Marketing at Providence College. Aside from the story, though, one thing stayed with me more than anything else, especially because of things going on this year. The Persistence of Order, Vol. Consulting Eastern Europeans who have already suffered through authoritarianism is a clever and helpful framing device. 2020 was the year I finally tackled John Steinbeck’s East of Eden which now ranks as one of my top-five favorite books. After plague, riots and elections, Joe Biden has been elected president and he is putting the Obama band back together. Those who have patiently waited for these archives to be opened will be rewarded by reading Dr. Ickx’s scholarly and essential book. Another author well known to me published her memoirs this year, but sadly did not live to see us all reading them. Finally, I read two books by David W. Fagerberg, one published fairly recently and one to be published next spring. One of the true greats in this endeavour, before whose erudition and prodigious output I am always humbled, is the late Father Stanley Jaki. Jason Blakely’s We Built Reality and Augusto Del Noce’s The Age of Secularization can help us read today’s social issues from a more theoretical lens. I tend to veer back and forth between genres (published a poetry collection last year), and this month I’ve been reading poetry, as well as some related nonfiction that I began earlier in the year and never quite finished. So enjoyable and helpful corrective to the original Dracula story (and many other bad vampire stories!). Mark Brumley is president and CEO of Ignatius Press. What else? The 25 books which made it to the USA Today list provide readers with ways to find inner self, inner peace and inner quarantine, or to foster relationships with people in their life and beyond the grave. Unlike Rieux, we know that salvation is not too big a word, and that health is not the highest good. In a way, academic life is secluded and monk-like. I re-read Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz in preparation for his 2020 sequel. Luckily, I stumbled upon Elizabeth Gaskell’s Wives and Daughters. Those who require received purpose from outside themselves are examples of the deformed ‘authoritarian personality.’”. Compulsive reading and perfect escapism during this most trying of years. Forester’s Horatio Hornblower series of classic seafaring novels, these were essential escapist reading this year. This is not a naïve, happily ever after narrative, though. To sum up the complex plot, unintended consequences ensue when a hotblooded young Roman officer named Marcus Vinicius woos a provincial princess. He thought all the varied currents in Western thought and social life had converged on a nihilistic, totalitarian, and sexually liberated technocratic consumer society in which nothing can ever change. In crisp prose Bergsma offers a measured, scholarly and nuanced examination of the spirituality and theology of the Essenes community revealed in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the role these may have had (and most likely, did have) in the lives of John the Baptist, Jesus, and the early Christian community. More diabolically, it has become the sacramental and religious lens by which its adherents view the world. This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel tells the story of two retired Texas Rangers who make the first cattle drive from South Texas to Montana. I understood a lot more of the philosophical references. I also love books. Mary Poppins by P.L. Love and Truth: The Christian Path of Charity by Jean Borella (New York: Angelico Press, 2020). Having scavenged all the archives, Czaczkowska, one of Poland’s leading Catholic authors, presents a detailed, compelling portrait of one of the spiritual godfathers of solidarity, a pioneer of the new evangelization, and one of the twentieth century’s great churchmen who never compromised with communism and always defended the faith. The book is straightforward, searingly honest, and extremely readable. Catherine Harmon was managing editor of Catholic World Report for many years, and is currently social media manager for Ignatius Press. Christianity equally brought to the fore the sanctity of life. But I appreciated even more Jacobs’ explanation of why engaging with authors from the past—even, maybe even especially, those whose worldviews and opinions are very different from our own—promotes a tranquility (but not a complacency) that is completely foreign to the anxiety-driven “cancel culture” all around us. In his new book published in October called Demonic Foes: My Twenty-Five Years as a Psychiatrist Investigating Possessions, Diabolic Attacks and the Paranormal he details his journey of transformation from skeptic to believer to expert and presents persistent but unequivocal factual evidence of demonic attacks in a contemporary context. This prayer book taps into deep spiritual resonances in English language and poetics. Roberto de Mattei, The Second Vatican Council – An Unwritten Story. I plan to gift both books this Christmas. Fans of the movie (I’m one!) So, my conclusion, after reading Chernow’s biography, is that Grant, though he was not perfect, was not only a great General, but that he is also one of America’s greatest presidents – a man of integrity and faith, who pursued justice and the wellbeing of all. And insufferable preening traffic jam, and sorrow had just over forty lists of books awaited the... 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