Is it ok to listen to Dr Taylor Marshall?

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DonnaL said:
I liked him for awhile. He gives some good, clear answers about matters of faith. He is a gifted teacher.

There were things that made me feel uncomfortable even then, like his infomercial style of marketing his products. That may just be me.

What turned me off about him altogether was when he said that he wanted to red pill 1 million Catholics about Pope Francis.

Since then, I can’t take him seriously. Red pill like in the movie Matrix?

His writings from about 5 years ago seemed to be very good, IMO.

Now I think he has lost his focus.
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The problem in the internet age is that You Have To Be Noticed. Nowadays nothing gets you noticed better than controversial, extreme statements.

He is competing for attention against 1p5, CM, Lepanto, LSN, and others.
Part of it is our fault.

When I was a child, tv commercials would go at least a minute. Now
they often are 15 seconds. If you want to see a drama with thoughtful character development and plot better switch to the classic movie channel. Modern tv shows or movies have to shock/titulate/disturb you in the first couple minutes or they lose you.

That spills over to Religious entertainment too. Taylor doesn’t exactly give you a car chase, a beheading, or a sex arousal in the first couple minutes. Instead, he or Remnant, or whoever, has to provide the equivalent of that, to make your blood boil. He also has to give something memorable, edgy to almost the point of irreverence.

That’s the hook to get you to come back. I’m not saying he doesn’t offer rational analysis, but I think it’s the other stuff, the blood boil, that’s the hook.
 
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There have been a couple of good ones the communion and the hand and Latin mass ones were good.
 
I’ve seen some good videos he has. But its his disdain for the Novus Ordo (which is completely valid), that I can’t take him seriously.
 
JimmyDFG said:
But its his disdain for the Novus Ordo (which is completely valid), that I can’t take him seriously.
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Marshall concedes Novus Ordo is valid

In fact, in recent episode he likened both Novus Ordo and Latin Mass to a perfect diamond. Both equally valid

But then he pointed out that just as a diamond setting for a ring can make a diamond sparkle more, the setting and ambiance of The Latin Mass really highlights the grace of the Mass more than the setting and ambiance of Novus Ordo
 
On Taylor Marshall’s FB April 27. He said:
“the Novus Ordo has been a liturgical failure. Catholicism seems to be bifurcating into two religions. Choose the original and traditional Catholicism.”
 
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Don’t see anywhere there that Novus Ordo is invalid. He preference of the TLM liturgy over NO liturgy is apples and oranges whether he thinks NO is invalid.
 
I never said he thinks or said the Novus Ordo is invalid. He knows better not to. Otherwise, he would be heading down the road of sedevacantism (as some traditionalist hold this position) and that’ll like hurt his New Saint Thomas Institute.
 
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I never said he thinks or said the Novus Ordo is invalid. He knows better not to. Otherwise, he would be heading down the road of sedevacantism (as some traditionalist hold this position) and that’ll like hurt his New Saint Thomas Institute.
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Second and third sentence contradict your first sentence since you’re implying he does think NO is invalid, just doesn’t say it for business reasons.
 
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You misconstrue what I am saying. As I said in my first comment “his disdain for the Novus Ordo” Mass. He’s not shy on expressing his feelings on the matter, a look on his YouTube Channel and his web pages will confirm this. He very well can think the Novus Ordo is unworthy of his consideration but still believe its valid.

Pope Benedict XVI, writing as High-ranking Cardinal in The Cardinal Ratzinger Report of 1985:
It must be stated that Vatican II is upheld by the same authority as Vatican I and the Council of Trent, namely, the Pope and the College of Bishops in communion with him, and that also with regard to its contents, Vatican II is in the strictest continuity with both previous councils and incorporates their texts word for word in decisive points.
… It is likewise impossible to decide in favor of Trent and Vatican I but against Vatican II. Whoever denies Vatican II denies the authority that upholds the other two councils and thereby detaches them from their foundation.
 
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JimmyDFG:
But its his disdain for the Novus Ordo (which is completely valid), that I can’t take him seriously.
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Marshall concedes Novus Ordo is valid

In fact, in recent episode he likened both Novus Ordo and Latin Mass to a perfect diamond. Both equally valid

But then he pointed out that just as a diamond setting for a ring can make a diamond sparkle more, the setting and ambiance of The Latin Mass really highlights the grace of the Mass more than the setting and ambiance of Novus Ordo
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He “concedes” that the OF is valid? What a telling choice of words.
 
JimmyDFG said:
On Taylor Marshall’s FB April 27. He said:
“the Novus Ordo has been a liturgical failure. Catholicism seems to be bifurcating into two religions. Choose the original and traditional Catholicism.”
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Note that this is not what the Church teaches. If that’s not sowing division I don’t know what is.
 
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