The Queue

My only issue with A Concise Guide to the Documents of Vatican II was Doctor Hahnenberg's inconsistent & lop-sided forays into the Council & post-conciliar debates. Only infrequently did he opine, yet when he did he was at pains to describe only one side of the debate's position, while providing the rudest caricature of the opposing side. I am of course not making the risible claim that all sides in every debate have equal merit, but considering that these were debates between the bishops of the Church, the chosen successors of the Apostles, he could have been more charitable in his assessments, at least affording each side the benefit of the doubt.

I need a little break from the sometimes harsh realities of Holy Mother Church in the twenty-first century, & the fantastical adventure of The Explorers Guild sounds more escapist than the unflinching realism of Clockers. Curse me as a coward if you wish.

Recently
Pope Francis, The Church of Mercy: A Vision for the Church
Father Michael White & Tom Corcoran, Rebuilt: The Story of a Catholic Parish
Edward P. Hahnenberg, A Concise Guide to the Documents of Vatican II

Currently
Jon Baird, with Kevin Costner & Stephen Meyer, illustrated by Rick Ross, The Explorers Guild, Volume One: A Passage to Shambhala
Madeline Pecora Nugent, The Divine Office for Dodos: A Step-by-Step Guide to Praying the Liturgy of the Hours

Presently
Pope Francis, Amoris Laetitia (The Joy of Love)
Richard Price, Clockers
Sir Richard Francis Burton, translator, "Sinbad the Sailor" from The Arabian Nights
Sir Ernest Shackleton, South: A Memoir of the Endurance Voyage
Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms: The Rise and Fall of States and Nations
Hilaire Belloc, How the Reformation Happened
William F. Buckley Jr., The Unmaking of a Mayor
Scott & Kimberly Hahn, Rome Sweet Home: Our Journey to Catholicism
Margaret MacMillan, Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
(A.K.A. Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War)