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Entry: All Soul's Day Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/all_souls_day#8360 Post contents: "Sid, 'cooperating Grace' is semi-Pelagian grace." A Calvinist misunderstanding. The ability to respond freely to Grace comes from Grace. To deny free will -- or a will freed by Grace -- makes God the author of evil, and thus one defames God. Just as the Lutherans misunderstand works de gratia and merit de gratia. Sorry, but "taking action to preserve, at least as they saw it, the integrity of the French nation" and "creating an environment where free-will conversions are made easier" is just a euphemism for coercion. Coercers would do better just to talk straight and simply say that they support dropping people out of helicopters into the ocean, genital electric shocks, and the stake, lighter fluid, and matches. (I'm not saying that Boyd Cathey would support these thing, mind you.) I commend to Boyd Cathey the work of Father Brian Harrison, especially his cutting to shreds Davis' book so hostile to Dignitatis humanae. Google it. I also thank him who alerted me to this essay by Harrison. I wish Boyd Cathey would comment on Maurras' Royalism and Maurras' connections to Carlism, Frederich Wilhemsen, and Russell Kirk -- some things Dr. Cathey may be very qualified to write about. We'd all might learn something. And it would be better than a writebacker trying to imitate either Leonard Feeney's distorted brand Catholicism or Titus Oates' distorted brand of Calvinism. Sent at: 2008 11 20