http://www.newswithviews.com/Horn/thomas172.htm

For many of you, this will all be trash, and you may dismiss it.  I thought it was interesting and wanted to share.

For many of you, this will all be trash, and you may dismiss it.  I thought it was interesting and wanted to share.

The material at the link is no news to regular readers of Traditio.  But it's more interesting than most of the rest of the book, which was coauthored with Cris Putnam, a Protestant theologian.

It abuses understandable interest in having arrived at the last item in St. Malachy's prophesy of the popes, as a pretext for a compilation of antiCatholic tracts.  The linked excerpt is rare for citing a Catholic source like Fr. Martin.  Relatively little of the book is even about the popes elected since the 1595 publication of that terse prophecy.  Most chapters are focused on antiCatholic writings by Protestant authors and preachers, who are presented as experts.  Against the Mass.  Against the sacraments.  And against the papacy, which is their Antichrist.  Their expert on "Roman Catholicism", who's credited in acknowledgements by the authors, is a Protestant.

The authors' idea of a "Catholic Bible", ostensibly quoted from for "balance", is the Novus Ordo's NAB, not the Douay-Rheims--never mind the Vulgate.  The rare quotes in Latin are filled with obvious errors, not anything as subtle as, e.g., using 2nd-declension endings on 4th-declension nouns.

The above isn't even close to exhausting the book's flaws from a Catholic perspective; it's just exhausted my desire to stay awake any longer tonight.