Mitre and Crook (Catholic Traditionalist Classics) (Paperback or Softback)
Language: English
Published by Angelico Press 11/14/2019, 2019
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- Title
- Mitre and Crook (Catholic Traditionalist Classics) (Paperback or Softback)
- Author
- Houghton, Bryan
- Publisher
- Angelico Press 11/14/2019
- Publication year
- 2019
- Condition
- New
- Book Type
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- Binding
- Paperback or Softback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1621384950
- ISBN 13
- 9781621384953
- Item weight
- 0.73 pounds
Bishop Edmund Forester, looking out over his little diocese of Stamford, was distressed at what he saw. The renewal promised from the Second Vatican Council had produced… disaster. Father Sludge was putting on “Eucharists” with nuns in slacks reading porn from Beardsley and revolution from Marx. Pastors were gutting their sanctuaries and selling off church heirlooms. A cabal of modernist priests was purging diocesan schools of traditional Catholics. It was time, decided the bishop, for his Bomb: a letter to the clergy of the diocese, in which he authorizes the Old Mass to be celebrated regularly, corrects the worst abuses of the New Mass, mandates kneeling for the reception of Communion, and bans Communion in the hand. The Bomb sets off blast and counterblast—all the way to Rome. Opposing forces maneuver for the confrontation.
How the issue gets resolved provides the theme of a novel unique in the annals of Catholic literature. It takes the form of letters from the bishop himself: a tough infighter—and a saint; a man of humility and charity—with a nose for humbug and an eye for the absurd. What emerges from these remarkable letters is a bishop for the ages—not the sort we meet these days. But along with this extraordinary man we are treated to what may be the most incisive analyses of the crisis in the Catholic Church ever to see print. What duller writers take chapters and books to say, Bishop Forester declaims in a few pages. And unforgettably.
With the ever-widening gap between tradition and modernism, Vetus and Novus, Fr. Houghton’s novel proves, if anything, more germane, more humorous, and more thought-provoking than when it first appeared in 1979.
“Fr. Bryan Houghton’s book is both hugely informative about the crisis in the Church that followed the Second Vatican Council and a deeply moving psychological study of the central character, Bishop Forester, in his struggle to respond to it.” — JOSEPH SHAW, President, Latin Mass Society of England & Wales
“Published in 1979 by an English convert priest of ‘gentry’ family, Mitre and Crook has the sort of elegance people associate with a Waugh or a Knox, the deft humor of the satirist, and at times the helpless mirth of slapstick.” — FR. JOHN HUNWICKE
“I read Mitre and Crook on a lark years ago and instantly fell in love: it is the best traditionalist fiction ever penned. Bryan Houghton was the Robert Hugh Benson of the postconciliar crisis.” — PETER KWASNIEWSKI, author of Noble Beauty, Transcendent Holiness
“An imaginative, boldly original novel about the crisis in the Church. Unlike so many explorations on this theme, Fr. Houghton’s is a work of style and verve, more than a touch of wit, and deep feeling.” — NEIL MCCAFFREY, founder of Conservative Book Club and Arlington House Publishers
“All the erudition, wisdom, experience, and understated British humor of Fr. Bryan Houghton finds full expression in Mitre and Crook. Ingenious and absorbing, it proved invaluable to an earlier generation reeling from postconciliar chaos. Kudos to Angelico Press for making this inspirational testimony available to a new audience.”— ROD PEAD, Editor of Christian Order
“This book meant the world to me as a seminarian. We need this book in 2019 as much as we did in 1979.”— FR. JAMES JACKSON, FSSP, author of Nothing Superfluous
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