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DEFENDING THE FREE MARKET a moral case for a free economy by Father Robert Sirico. This book released earlier this month, May 2012.
I have read great reviews.
 
Hi! I am re-reading Hungry Souls by Gerard JM van der Aardwig, on my Kindle–a book about the apparition of Poor Souls to mostly saintly people throughout the ages. There is a sort of museum in Rome that has imprints and such from them. It definitely is worth rereading because I think most of us will end up there, and it does not sound like fun. Time to keep praying for them, and making some sacrifices for them, and also a good reminder that there is more than Heaven and Hell.
 
Having just returned from a trip to the Badlands of South Dakota,
I’m now reading a book I bought there called,
“Bad Boys of the Black Hills: And Some Wild Women, Too”
By Barbara Fifer, Jerry Bryant
 
The Inquisitor by Mark Allen Smith.

Actually a very interesting book. I like the way he writes. 🙂
 
Amazing Grace by Eric Metaxas.
It is in sore need of a good editor; half as long it might be twice as good.
Each idea is restated or fluffed in some way several times.
It’s focus is English history and the abolition momvement with a strong emphasis upon great men and methodism. I’m inclined to place it in the ‘light reading’ category. The short bibliography is limited to secondary resources. The author seems unaware of challenges to the institution of slavery outside of his case study although, in his defense, he has not chosen a broader focus. But this is an example of what troubles me as I read the book.
Discussion of religion thus far (pg. 116) would have me believe that the English population consists of Anglican who follow forms but have no religous substance and Methodists who live out christian teachings. As I read, I wish for a more substance and for a nuanced approach which I think might be more likely had the author engaged in primary source research.
 
Innocent by Scott Turow, the follow on for his earlier Presumed Innocent.
 
I’m in the process of reading three books from my Kindle. Two are novels: One is Armegeddon by Leon Uris, another is Pillar and Bulwark by Marcus Grodi . The non-fiction one is Prague Winter by Madalyn Albright. I am of Czech descent so was interested in the history of this nation although she seems to dwell on the anti-Catholic history rather than Church’s history. Supposedly she was raised Catholic, but later found that she had Jewish ancestors. Takes place between 1937-1938.

Another good one is “Sons of Cain” a novel dealing I think whats going on today with the official secularism and anti-religion written by Val Bianco, and this takes a Catholic view of what may be going on now. So many books, so little time.
 
Flannery O’Connor’s “The Habit of Being” and Robert B. Parker’s “Blue-eyed Devil.”
 
Needful Things by Stephen King
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
 
Holy Ghosts or: How a (not so) good Catholic boy became a believer in things that go bump in the night.
 
The World of Shannara by Terry Brooks, Teresa Patterson, David Cherry, Ann Burgess, and James Clouse
 
I’ve recently taken to hunting down antique books lately. Bought a 1932 Georgia (US) history textbook (the things they said about black people are almost amusing–if they weren’t so incredibly ignorant and biased) from a book sale at my university; bought a book of the early speeches of Wilfird Laurier, Canadian PM from 1896-1911, that was printed in 1890; and now I just bought a volume of Montesquieu’s Persian Letters that was printed in Scotland in 1773. Can’t say I agree with all Montesquieu says, but he definitely had some interesting things to say.
 
CONFESSIONS OF A MEGA CHURCH PASTOR by Allen Hunt. Pastor of the most well-attended Methodist congregation in the South, and one of the largest in the country (5,000 attending Sunday service), he became a Catholic in 2008.

Book is available on Amazon cheapest at .52 and up.

Beautiful story. Very inspiring. 👍
 
Currently reading “Psychology As Religion, The Cult of Self Worship” by Paul C. Vitz
the author examines modern Psychology using the long standing theories of Psychologist such as; Carl Jung, the father of the “Self Theory” as well as Erich Fromm, Abraham Maslow and Rollo May…and exposes the narcissistic nature that self theory is and has become and evolved into a humanistic, self-actualizing, self esteem philosophy and how this philosophy says that all men are intrinsically good and evil is due solely to exploitative society and is not part of human nature.
Half way through…will give a final book review when done.
 
Last weekend I finished Rome Sweet Home by Scott Hahn.

Yesterday I started How Firm a Foundation by Marcus Grodi.

Hahn’s book is a memoir of his journey to Catholicism. Grodi’s book is a novel about the same subject, with a bit of thriller thrown in. Both men, I believe, are former protestant ministers.

I’ve enjoyed both of them a lot and appreciate the quoted scripture they both felt backed up their decisions to convert.
 
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