I've lately been reading Fr. Francis Randolph's Pardon & Peace: A Sinner's Guide to Confession and it is uncommonly well-written: clear, concise and very interesting. The chapter (or partial chapter) on indulgences - an honest, brief historical account - is the best thing I've seen written on the subject. I'd never heard of the author before, so I was thinking as I was reading it: "wow, where did he come from?".
An excerpt that mentions the title of this blog (though obviously not referring to my blog):
Ultimately, Pelagianism empties the Christian gospel of all content...and, I think, can be shown to be illogical in some of its connections and unworkable in practice.
For a start, the basic premise that we can control our own behavior is disproved by our own everyday experience. "Video meliora proboque, deteriora sequor", sang the pagan poet (Ovid, Metapmorphoses 7:19), neatly translated by St. Paul as "For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do" (Rom 7:19).
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