What I “See”

Painting of Albertus Magnus (1206-1280) by Justus van Gent, ca. 1475. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

[Saturday, 14 Sept. 2013 –– Between migrating with my family to America last summer, taking on a new job, welcoming our newest child, and the usual distractions in life, I have allowed this literary log to lapse. Rather than rack my brains trying to fill in the gaps, however, I’m just going to begin again right now. I will try to fill in a few titles from last year based on my library account, Kindle database, and Amazon reviews, but I doubt I’ll catch all the books I read since last summer. Na ja. (The same goes for movies I’ve seen in the past year or more: I’ve seen so many since my last update that I will just start from the most recent one that I remember best––Kill List––and go from there.)]

I really like movies (but I’m not a film snob)!

As for books, I am (still!) READING NOW:

• What’s Wrong with the World (—) by G.K. Chesterton

• Divine Intimacy by Fr. Gabriel

• Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales

• The Spirit and Forms of Protestantism (19–) by Louis Bouyer

• Pope Francis: Untying the Knots (2013) by Paul Vallely

• Sin and Its Consequences (—) by Henry Cardinal Manning

• The Complete Keys to Progress (1993) by John McCallum

• It Didn’t Have to Be This Way: Why Boom and Bust is Unnecessary–and How the Austrian School of Economics Breaks the Cycle (2012) by Harry C. Veryser

• Reasons for Hope (rev. ed.) (1982) by Jeffrey A. Mirus (ed.)

• Galileo’s Mistake (20–) by

• Treatise on God: St. Thomas Aquinas (19–) ed. and tran. by James F. Anderson
• Self-Abandonment to Divine Providence by Fr. Jean-Pierre de Caussade
• Summa contra gentiles by St Thomas d’Aquino [AVAILABLE ONLINE]
• (!) On Cleaving to God (De adhaerendo Deo) by Albertus Magnus [AVAILABLE ONLINE]
• (!) Covenantal Theology: The Eucharistic Order of History by Fr. Donald Keefe, SJ
• (!) Salz der Erde (Ein Gespräch mit Peter Seewald) von Joseph Kardinal Ratzinger und Peter Seewald

…AND SHELVING, IN MEMORIAM:

• Six Weeks to Brain-Based Teaching () by

• 100 Practical Tips for New Teachers () by K. M. Root

[END OF SUMMER 2013]

• The Breach (20–) by Patrick Lee

• Ghost Country (20–) by Patrick Lee

• Can Animals and Robots Be Persons? A Dialogue (19–) by Jason Leiber

• Labor Unions, Thugs, and Storm Troopers (2012) by George Reisman

• Warren Buffet, Class Warfare, and the Exploitation Theory (—-) by George Reisman

• Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain (2009) by David Eagleman

• The Sins of the Fathers (19–) by Lawrence Block

• The Three Languages of Politics (—) by Arnold Kling

• The Fallen (2004) by T. Jefferson Parker

• Blood Meridian (1985) by Cormac McCarthy

• Conscience of a Conservative (1960) by Barry Goldwater

• Deep Sky (2008?) by Patrick Lee

• Open Letter to Confused Catholics (1988) by Abp. Lefebvre

• Free is Beautiful: Why Catholics Should Be Libertarian (2013) by Randy England

• Mary, the Second Eve (TAN Books, 1982) by John Henry Newman

• Devotion to the Sacred Heart (1949/2010) by Fr. Lukas Etlin, OSB (?)

• Whitehead – Makers of Contemporary Theology (1969) by Norman Pittenger

• Mass Made Simple: A Six-Week Journey into Bulking (—) by Dan John

• St. Francis de Sales: Sermons for Advent and Christmas (1985) by Francis de Sales

• Hymn of Entry: Liturgy and Life in the Orthodox Church (1984) by Archmandrite Vasileios

• Why We Believe in God(s) by J. Anderson Thomson, Jr., M.D.

• One Second After** by

• A Short History of the Roman Mass by Michael Davies

• Liturgical Shipwreck: 25 Years of the New Mass by Michael Davies

• The Problems with the New Mass by Rama Coomaraswamy, M.D.

• Looking at the Liturgy: A Critical Look at Its Contemporary Form by Aidan Nichols, O.P.

• Testem benevolentiae nostrae by Pope Leo XIII (1899)

• The Kelso Shrug Book by Paul Kelso

• I Am With You Always: The Divine Constitution and the Indefectibility of the Catholic Church by Michael Davies

• Vatican II: The Essential Texts by Norman Tanner, SJ (ed.) (2012)

• Au milieu de sollicitudes by Pope Leo XIII (1892)

• Rerum novarum by Pope Leo XIII (1891)

• Ad beatissimi Apostolorum by Pope Benedict XV

• Humani generis redemptionem by Pope Benedict XV (1917)

• Nimiam licentiam by Pope Benedict XIV (1743)

• In praeclara summorum by Pope Benedict XV (1921)

• The Social Teachings of the Church by Anne Fremantle (ed.)

• This Is It by Tom Watts

• Ad Petri cathedram by Pope John XXIII

• E Supremi by Pope Pius X

• “Address of Pope Paul VI During the Last General Meeting of the Second Vatican Council” (7 Dec. 1965)

• Ideas Have Consequences by Richard Weaver (1948)

[BEGINNING OF SUMMER 2014]

• A Theology of Liberation by Gustavo Gutiérrez