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Working through Mr. Salza's book on Predestination (see reply #43 above). At this point, I definitely would recommend it ...

Mr. Salza has a large section where he basically takes apart Father William Most's book, Grace, Predestination, and the Salvific Will of God.  ...

Salza has no business masquerading as a Catholic theologian ... especially after having been completely discredited as a result the anti-SV screed that he co-authored.

Stick with Father Garrigou-Lagrange and other approved pre-Vatican II ACTUAL theologians, not this pop arm-chair theological wannabe ... who spent hundreds of pages arguing that St. Robert Bellarmine basically held the same opinion as Cajetan on the pope issue, even though St. Robert explicitly rejected it.

His absurd legalistic principles have now led him to conclude that, while Joe Biden and Nancy Peℓσѕι are Catholics in good standing, Traditional Catholics (even those who aren't SVs) are outside the Church.

Bravo!

I think that I got riled up because Predestination in particular is an extremely complicated theological subject that even the Church did not definitively rule on (down to the level of Thomism and Molinism), and even the Church's top theologians have struggled with it.  I would never presume to write some book on predestination.  Salza has no theological training, not even at the level of what a simple SSPX priest or pre-Vatican II priest would have, and to me it would be great hubris to write a book about it.

I recall an older pre-Vatican II priest who visited us at St. Thomas Aquinas seminary.  He complained that so many Traditional priests carry on as if they were theologians, whereas before Vatican II you wouldn't even THINK to pretend to be qualified unless you've had advanced degrees from Rome.  I could see perhaps writing an article or blog piece in which one might opine on the subject, but to write a book about Predestination without a lick of theological training?

It would be out of line for a properly-trained priest to write such a book, much less someone who has had zero formal training in scholastic philosophy and theology.