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Offline Meg

Re: Which Book Best Describes the Crisis?
« Reply #30 on: May 24, 2024, 12:11:15 PM »
As far as Angelus Press books go, I have one I'm about to read:
The Problem of the Liturgical Reform
A Theological and Liturgical Study
by the SSPX
Second printing (Aug 2001)

Fr Wickens in Christ Defended highly recommends Michael Davies' Apologia No. I & II back in 1988.  He says they are a history of ABL and his contacts with Rome, bishops, and Vatican congregations since right after the council. He's hoping for a volume 3.
Has anyone here reads those?

It would be good to get some of these books republished if they are hard to come by.

Whatever happened to The Neumann Press? I can't find info on them.

It's unfortunate that Angelus Press hasn't printed the Michael Davies' books that you listed above, since at least 2009, I think. It's very odd.

I have Davies' Liturgical Revolution volumes 2 and 3. They are excellent. They provide a detailed history of those days during the Vll Council (volume 2), and when the New Mass was sadly instigated (volume 3). I also have Davies' Apologia Pro Marcel Lefebvre, volume 3.

It seems that Michael Davies good history of those days is being sadly forgotten. Especially when it's not that easy to find these books, except on E-bay and Amazon. Angelus Press does have two of Davies' Liturgical Revolution books that can be purchased by digital download.

Edited to add: it looks like Davies' Liturgical Revolution was published by Angelus Press last year - 2023, its eighth printing. But I can't find the books for sale on the Angelus press website.

Offline St Giles

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Re: Which Book Best Describes the Crisis?
« Reply #31 on: Yesterday at 07:09:41 PM »
Iota Unum
 by Romano Amerio
A Study of Changes in the Catholic Church in the XXth Century
Published in English by Sarto House


Offline OABrownson1876

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Re: Which Book Best Describes the Crisis?
« Reply #32 on: Yesterday at 09:28:32 PM »
I have been looking for a book like this that addresses the New Sacraments!  Thank you for sharing! 

Great thread!  Lots of titles I have never heard of before!

Edit: The only copy of the book that I could find for sale online was on Amaon for about $800!  :confused:
Fr. Wathen's Who Shall Ascend is sold on ebay in both hard and soft copy for 30-45$ range. "I Know Mine and Mine Know Me" is also on ebay.

Offline Stubborn

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Re: Which Book Best Describes the Crisis?
« Reply #33 on: Today at 05:18:11 AM »
I go with Fr. James Francis Wathen's "Who Shall Ascend" (originally published in 1992, 800pp.)  While I admire Fr. Feeney and all that he has written, Fr. Wathen's treatise addresses the New Sacraments as well, something we do not get when reading Fr. Feeney.  Most readers will shy away from the book, exclaiming, "it is too long!"  Fr. Wathen once told us, "I have often thought about giving fifty dollars to the man who actually reads the book."  Long after Fr. Wathen had died a lady told me she was reading a brand new copy of the book, and about midway through she found a $50 bill.  
Agreed! Who Shall Ascend? (pdf attached) is excellent and is nearly a complete work on answering so many questions about the crisis in the Church.

What I initially found pretty incredible was that although published in 1992, so many of the issues regarding the crisis (validity/invalidity, EENS, new mass, etc. etc.) that are repeatedly discussed, debated and argued about over and over again here on CI, are the same issues he tackles in that book using clear orthodox Catholic explanations, teachings, principles and reasoning, which is to say most of these same issues are not at all new, they have been around since V2 - and he answers most of them in that book.     

Re: Which Book Best Describes the Crisis?
« Reply #34 on: Today at 05:47:34 AM »
The first book to read would be Open Letter, and the second is the Catechism of the Crises, by Fr. Gaudron.