{"product_id":"true-obedience-in-the-church-a-guide-to-discernment-in-challenging-times-9781644136744","title":"True Obedience in the Church: A Guide to Discernment in Challenging Times","description":"\u003cp\u003ePope Benedict XVI affirmed the ongoing growth and perpetual validity of the Traditional Latin Mass, insisting that \"what earlier generations held as sacred remains sacred and great for us too, and it cannot be all of a sudden entirely forbidden or even considered harmful.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHowever, with the 2021 release of \u003ci\u003eTraditionis Custodes\u003c\/i\u003e, his successor has declared precisely the opposite, sending shockwaves through the Church by calling for the restriction and eventual suppression of her most beautiful and venerable form of worship -- and the one experiencing the most dramatic and impassioned growth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is a conscientious Catholic to do?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this pivotal book, Dr. Peter Kwasniewski offers an essential treatise on the question of obedience in the Church--whence it derives and how it is to be properly and prudently understood and lived. He explores St. Thomas Aquinas's guidelines on the subject, what type of obedience is necessary for salvation, and which types are lawful and unlawful. Can there be situations where the usual structures of obedience become impediments to, rather than facilitators of, the Church's mission and the good of souls? Have there been instances in Church history where faithful priests have exercised their ministry in violation of ordinary canonical norms? How should the clergy respond if the traditional Latin Mass is forbidden to them or if it were to be declared \"abrogated\"? What is the proper role of conscience and how are liberal and conservative views of it defective?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOther questions on obedience that Dr. Kwasniewski deftly engages include: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIs it ever licit for individuals to follow Enlightenment ideology and be their own authority?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat should you do when your superior instructs you to do something in contravention of God's law?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy is opposing the traditional liturgy equivalent to opposing the work of the Holy Spirit and harming the Church's common good?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAre Catholics required to live in blind obedience, even in situations of anarchy or breakdown, corruption or apostasy?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCan Catholics who strive to preserve traditional beliefs and practices ever be credibly denounced as disobedient revolutionaries?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy are unjust laws acts of violence?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrue Obedience in the Church\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e is available now in the following languages: \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSpanish edition: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eUSA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eSpain\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGerman edition: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eUSA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eGermany\/Europe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePolish edition: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoland\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrench edition: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eUSA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \/ \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrance\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \/ \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eCanada\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePortuguese edition: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eUSA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \/ \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ePortugal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eItalian edition: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eItaly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr. Peter Kwasniewski, Thomistic theologian, liturgical scholar, and choral composer, is a graduate of Thomas Aquinas College and The Catholic University of America. He has taught at the International Theological Institute in Austria, the Franciscan University of Steubenville's Austria Program, and Wyoming Catholic College, which he helped establish in 2006 and where he taught theology, philosophy, music, and art history and directed the choirs. He writes regularly for \u003ci\u003eThe New Liturgical Movement, OnePeterFive, Rorate Caeli, The Latin Mass Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and other websites and publications. He has published sixteen books (eight as author and eight as editor), including seven on traditional Catholicism: \u003ci\u003eResurgent in the Midst of Crisis\u003c\/i\u003e (Angelico, 2014), \u003ci\u003eNoble Beauty, Transcendent Holiness\u003c\/i\u003e (Angelico, 2017), \u003ci\u003eTradition and Sanity\u003c\/i\u003e (Angelico, 2018), \u003ci\u003eJohn Henry Newman on Worship, Reverence, and Ritual\u003c\/i\u003e (Os Justi, 2019), \u003ci\u003eReclaiming Our Roman Catholic Birthright\u003c\/i\u003e (Angelico, 2020), \u003ci\u003eThe Holy Bread of Eternal Life\u003c\/i\u003e (Sophia, 2020), and \u003ci\u003eMinisters of Christ\u003c\/i\u003e(Sophia, 2021). His work has been translated so far into eighteen languages and Braille. Visit his website at www.peterkwasniewski.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Sophia Institute Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50645845836050,"sku":"9781644136744","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0afc4b00-b0b6-4df3-843a-ead3b458b3e9.jpg?v=1733163450","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/true-obedience-in-the-church-a-guide-to-discernment-in-challenging-times-9781644136744","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}