I feel the same. I have a strong sense of nostalgia but am so thankful for the access permitted by the Internet. Seems like The Remnant has been successful with its YouTube videos – if it could find a way to financially capitalize on that and rebuild its web site, perhaps it would be in a better place. But of course, ya gotta spend money to make money. I hate to think of a family apostolate closing its doors.
I am not familiar with this organization, but based on this comment: “The unprecedented radicalism of the current Pope, who is dropping one bombshell after another on an already devastated household of the Faith” – I say it’ll be great to be rid of them if they close up shop. Pope Francis is no more radical than St. Thomas Aquinas, and is really very similar, doctrinally and in practice.
I agree with you.
Conservative? I would say too liberal: if the part I saw is representative of the magazine, it promotes dissent against the pope, and that is a hallmark of liberalism.
This has to be the first time The Remnant has been characterized as liberal. Truth is, the “left” has no monopoly on extreme criticism of the Pope; there are numerous sites and ultra-traditionalist groups on the right that are hyper-critical of the Pope, who encourage dissent and resistance.
Hmm… I suppose it depends on how you define “traditional.” The Remnant does the opposite of Tradition when they say stuff like what I quoted about the pope. And insofar as they deviate from Tradition, they are anti-traditionalist, in my view, and pro-liberal on at least one fundamental thing: the view that we shouldn’t treat the pope with the respect he deserves as the leader of the Church.
They’re so doom and gloom about the Church that the people at my parish who read it are constantly in a state of doom and gloom and miserable. I have no desire to read such a newspaper. The editors will have a lot to answer for as it is. Maybe it’s best to pull the plug on it now before more people get sucked into its state of despair. Yes, things in the Church aren’t good right now, but it’s hardly the doom and gloom they make it out to be. Things have been worse in the Church in the past. You don’t turn to a newspaper when times get rough; you turn to God.
Yup. Even if they have a valid point from time to time, it’s much too angry to be a worthwhile way to spread the gospel.
Some may need detention.
Allowed to or prefer to? “Anyone who is validly ordained a priest and has faculties can licitly say the Ordinary form of the Mass.”
Of course they have a valid point from time to time. Everybody does. Some activity labelled Catholic does go against the Magisterium, and they point it out. But then their constant attack on bishops, and now popes, undermines the Magisterium far more than their occasional “valid point” supports it. In fact, reading publications like this on a regular basis makes a person less able to benefit from their own valid points, or valid points in any other publication or book you happen to read.
I certainly agree wholeheartedly
