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What Went Wrong With Vatican II: The Catholic Crisis Explained

22 reviews
Ralph M. McInerny

Sophia Institute Press, 1998

Prophetic
Unlike some of the other reviewers, I did not find the title misleading because what went wrong with Vatican II was not Vatican II itself. Unfortunately, the Council, its documents, and subsequent documents with Church authority have been deliberately misinterpreted or ignored by people acting without authority.

Ash Wednesday (Father Dowling Mysteries)

1 review
Ralph McInerny

St. Martin's Minotaur, 2008

thought provoking Father Dowling mystery
On Ash Wednesday, just out of prison Nathaniel Green, who killed his wife ten years ago when he pulled the plug on the life support machine so she could go to heaven, asks the pastor of St. Hilary's if he will put ashes on his forehead though he is no longer a Catholic. He gave up on religion when his beloved Florence suffered from terminal cancer and kept alive by so called caring people when ...

Aquinas: Selected Writings (Penguin Classics)

4 reviews
Thomas Aquinas

Penguin Classics, 1999

Great Compilation Work
This is a compilation of works written by Aquinas. The book is edited by Ralph McInerny (Notre Dame) and contains all the important works of Aquinas. For instance, some of the works (or parts of works) included are: On Being and Essence, Theology, Faith, and Reason. On Boethius, The Meanings of Truth, On Creation, On Human Choice, On Law and Natural Law, The Virtues, The Logic of the ...

Irish Alibi (Roger and Philip Knight Mysteries Set at the Univ. of Notre Dame)

1 review
Ralph McInerny

St. Martin's Minotaur, 2007

Missing this footnote
On page 27 of Irish Alibi, McInerny mentions that part of a Father Dowling mystery was once set in the heating tunnels on the Notre Dame campus, but he failed to tell us which mystery that was. Having finally located it, I am posting the information that the title of that mystery is A Cardinal Offense, published in 1994. But be aware that, although the story line includes a Notre Dame/USC ...

The Degrees of Knowledge (The Collected Works of Jacques Maritain)

4 reviews
Jacques Maritain

University of Notre Dame Press, 1999

The work of a great mind!
The work of a great mind Out of the many books Jacques Maritain wrote, his Degrees of Knowledge can be considered as his Magnum Opus in the field of speculative philosophy. First published in 1932, it is his major work on the theory of knowledge, inspired by the philosophy of St Thomas Aquinas and the mystical works of St John of the Cross. The whole purpose of the book is to make a synthesis ...

Commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (Thomas Aquinas's Aristotelian Commentaries Series)

3 reviews
C. I. Litzinger, St. Thomas Aquinas

St. Augustines Dumb Ox Books, 1993

Another Great Text from Dumb Ox
As with the other commentaries from Dumb Ox Books, this text contains both the original text from Aristotle, and Aquinas' comments. These two texts are nicely distinguishable for the lay reader (or beginning reader) since Dumb Ox has put Aristotle's work in italics and Aquinas' commentary in normal typed text. This is a very helpful text in understanding two things. First, what Aquinas thought of ...

First Glance At Thomas Aquinas: Philosophy

1 review
Ralph McInerny

University of Notre Dame Press, 1989

Great Introduction to a Great Saint
It looks like this book will soon be relegated to the used book market only, but for a great introduction to the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas, in all its breadth, it is surely in the top 10. If you are looking for a leg up to tackling the saint yourself, this is the book for you. McInerny breaks the Saint's thought into topics, many of which are connected as the chapters progress. Each ...

Students Guide To Philosophy: Philosophy (Guides To Major Disciplines)

5 reviews
Ralph M. Mcinerny

Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 1999

philosophy belongs to everyone
Rather than a give the story of philosophy in 50 pages, Dr. McInerny points students of philosophy in a direction such that their philosophical studies might actually benefit their lives. The book is thus a defense of perennial philosophy, and the classical view that philosophy is something humans are "naturally" drawn to do, because it completes our lives. Dr. McInerny engages the reader in ...

Some Catholic Writers
Ralph McInerny

St. Augustines Press, 2007

Ethica Thomistica: The Moral Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas

2 reviews
Ralph M. McInerny

Catholic University of America Press, 1997

Excellent Introduction
McInerny offers a fine introduction to the ethics of Thomas Aquinas in this volume. While not a large book by any means, it is packed with information that is very valuable for one trying to understand the ethical principles of Aquinas. McInerny discusses natural law and the alleged "naturalistic fallacy", the difference between real and apparent goods, the notion of the Ultimate End as argued by ...

Commentary on Aristotle's De Anima

1 review
Thomas Aquinas, Silvester Humphries

St. Augustines Dumb Ox Books, 1994

All Humans Desire To Know
I read these works for a graduate seminar on Aristotle. Soul- De Anima Latin for Greek word Psuche=Life. It is a Phenomenology of Life. Living things are Aristotle¡¦s primary interest. Renee Descartes says thinking is only aspect of soul, not life. For Descartes the soul is the mind. Aristotle classifies features of living things. A soul can¡¦t be a body, (like a corpse). Psuche=life is ...

I Alone Have Escaped to Tell You: My Life And Pastimes

3 reviews
Ralph M. McInerny

University of Notre Dame Press, 2006

Delightful
A delightful autobiography -- one can only wish it were longer. The author's life has been full of adventures that most of us can experience only second-hand. Of particular interest may be the chapter on Vatican II and its aftermath, or the chapter delineating the problems of modernist philosophers and the Scholastic antidote. For many readers, especially those of the author's multitudinous ...

The Green Revolution (Roger and Philip Knight Mysteries Set at the Univ. of Notre Dame)
Ralph McInerny

St. Martin's Minotaur, 2008

Any year when the Fighting Irish don’t go undefeated is a disappointment, but to turn in a losing football season is unheard of. This year the faithful are refusing to admit defeat even as the losses start to pile up. With the students in a funk and the alumni in an uproar, something must be done, or more precisely, somebody has to go. Since they can’t expel the team, they’ll have to settle for firing the multimillion-dollar ...

Commentary on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics (Aristotelian Commentary Series)

1 review
Thomas Aquinas

St. Augustines Dumb Ox Books, 2008

Logic
This commentary is outstanding as an exposition of logic's theory of scientific knowledge. Aristotle's Posterior Analytics belongs to the division of logic that is the material logic of the theory of arguments. Where as Aristotle's Topics exposits dialectial(probable) syllogisms and probable arguments which lead to scientific proofs but are not scientific proofs, in this Aristotelian work there ...

Irish Gilt: A Mystery Set at the University of Notre Dame (Roger and Philip Knight Mysteries Set at the Univ. ...

4 reviews
Ralph McInerny

St. Martin's Minotaur, 2005

pleasant read in an amiable series
South Bend, Indiana is known as the home of the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame. Brotherly private investigators Roger and Phil Knight love the college atmosphere, the sports, and the occasional intrigue. Roger, recently appointed to the Huneker Chair in the Catholic Studies Department, teaches a course on the renowned Father John Zahm, a Renaissance man who many believe found the legendary El ...

The Widow's Mate (Father Dowling Mysteries)

2 reviews
Ralph McInerny

St. Martin's Minotaur, 2007

One of the best
This is one of the best of the generally excellent Father Dowling books. The author claims a mystery writer does not need to know "who done it" until he gets to the end of the book. That may be true of this effort as well, but the key elements of the plot required a lot of planning with consequent reward to the reader. As always, there are plenty of wise philosophical one-liners.

Aquinas and Analogy

5 reviews
Ralph M. McInerny

Catholic University of America Press, 1999

Life is more than a metaphor
I found the book clear enough. To those with an honest desire to understand reality on a sounder basis than many contemporary philosophies allow,I highly recommend this book.To those who want live in a well paid soft focus world I commend the previous reviewers

Introduction to the Summa Theologiae of Thomas Aquinas
John of St. Thomas, Ralph McInerny

St. Augustine's Press, 2003

John of St. Thomas (John Poinsot) lived from 1584 to 1644 and was one of the luminaries of the Second Scholasticism, which flourished on the Iberian Peninsula at a time when, on the continent, Thomism was virtually eclipsed. In his Cursus Philosophicus, John of St. Thomas provides a remarkable précis of the philosophy that is presupposed by theology. His Cursus Theologicus is a commentary on the Summa Theologiae in the manner of the Master's ...

Praeambula Fidei: Thomism And the God of the Philosophers
Ralph M. McInerny

Catholic University of America Press, 2006

The praeambula fidei ("preambles of faith") are regarded by Thomas Aquinas as the culmination of philosophy: natural theology, the highest knowledge of God that is possible on philosophical grounds alone. The natural home for such considerations is the Metaphysics of Aristotle and Thomas's commentary on that work. Yet Thomas's view has been cast into doubt, with philosophers and theologians alike attempting to drive a wedge between ...

The Prudence of the Flesh (Father Dowling Mysteries)

1 review
Ralph McInerny

St. Martin's Minotaur, 2006

fine whodunit
NPR host of End Notes Gregory Barrett visits his former seminary classmate Father Dowling for the first time in years seeking his help. Apparently, a woman he swears he never met Madeline Murphy has just been led to remember that he sexually abused her when he still was a priest and claims he is the father of her child. Dowling thinks that is quite a memory gap as Gregory left the priesthood ...

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