2671 ratings (3.99 avg)
770 reviews
Goodreads librarian

#25 top librarians

Jimmy

Jimmy’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (169)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (2671)
american-civil-war‎ (740)
catholic‎ (696)
military-history‎ (220)
civil-war-eastern-theater‎ (218)
biography‎ (215)
science‎ (204)
fiction‎ (170)

non-fiction‎ (138)
creation-science‎ (127)
civil-war-western-theater‎ (124)
world-war-i‎ (109)
world-war-ii‎ (102)
catholic-history‎ (95)
catholic-biography‎ (94)
american-revolutionary-war‎ (84)
history‎ (83)
american-civil-war-biography‎ (68)

transmississippi‎ (68)
dinosaurs‎ (63)
battle-of-gettysburg‎ (48)
napoleonic-wars‎ (30)
travel-guide‎ (25)
weather‎ (23)
historical-fiction‎ (22)
memoir‎ (22)
humor‎ (21)
alternate-history‎ (18)

economics‎ (18)
gettysburg-campaign‎ (18)
politics‎ (18)
favorites‎ (14)
mathematics‎ (12)
poetry‎ (10)
computer-science‎ (9)

Stats | More…

“This is why I persist, and if you wish to know the real reason for my persistence, it is this. At the hour of my death, when Our Lord asks me: "What have you done with your episcopate, what have you done with your episcopal and priestly grace?" I do not want to hear from his lips the terrible words "You have helped to destroy the Church along with the rest of them." (p. 163)”
― Marcel Lefebvre, Open Letter to Confused Catholics

tags: catholic, catholic-church-today, catholic-tradition, catholicism, vatican-ii

7 likes

“J.R.R. Tolkien was also opposed to the Novus Ordo Mass. Simon Tolkien recalls his grandfather’s protest to the Novus Ordo:
"I vividly remember going to church with him in Bour-nemouth. He was a devout Roman Catholic and it was soon after the Church had changed the liturgy from Latin to English. My grandfather obviously didn’t agree with this and made all the responses very loudly in Latin while the rest of the congregation answered in English. I found the whole experience quite excruciating, but my grandfather was oblivious. He simply had to do what he believed to be right.”
― Dr. Taylor Reed Marshall

tags: catholic, catholic-mass, catholic-tradition, catholicism, latin, mass, tolkien, tradition

13 likes

“St. Thomas explains that for a law to be just, it must conform to the demands of reason and have an effect which is both good and for the benefit of those for whom it is intended. A law can cease to bind without revocation on the part of the legislator when it is clearly harmful, impossible, or irrational. It would certainly constitute an abuse of authenticity for a pope to forbid the celebration of so hallowed, venerable and Catholic a rite as the Tridentine Mass. Should it be done, there is a sound case to justify the faithful in resisting him, based upon accepted norms within Catholic theology. (p. 25).”
― Michael Treharne Davies, The Legal Status of the Tridentine Mass

tags: catholic-church, catholic-church-today, catholic-mass, catholic-tradition, catholicism

3 likes

“God does not punish, just as the Church no longer condemns, except those who stay faithful to Tradition. (p. 61)”
― Marcel Lefebvre, Open Letter to Confused Catholics

tags: catholic, catholic-church, catholic-church-today, catholic-tradition, catholicism, vatican-ii

6 likes

“We have been slowly and deliberately taught that monarchies and kings are bad things, and papal supervision of any kind of government, even over its morals, is a very bad thing. The obvious truth, that a bad king can be a bad thing, but that a good king is always a blessedly good thing and that the Pope is the divinely constituted guardian of faith and morals for the whole world, is carefully kept from the realization of every school child and man and woman. Scarcely anyone is ever told any more that France, Spain and Portugal, Poland and Hungary, England and Sweden, all had kings and queens who were saints, and who ruled their lands gloriously and brought untold happiness and well-being to their subjects.”
― Charles A. Coulombe, Puritan's Empire

tags: catholic, catholicism, politics

3 likes

More of Jimmy’s quotes…