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To: sitetest
Oh. I didnt know that. Thanks. I never read the mag. The few things I have read on line by Storck seemed reasonable.

Now, I 'spose I'll have to admit, again, that you know more than me - and it ain't even Lent yet.

18 posted on 11/03/2006 3:35:47 PM PST by bornacatholic
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Dear bornacatholic,

NOR used to be a pretty good read. Spritely orthodox, fun-loving and humorous in its critique of heterodoxy and heresy, I used to wait every month for its arrival. I learned a lot. I think maybe I was even a marginally better Catholic for reading it.

Then, the tone began to change, the cream began to curdle. The once-gentle fun-poking at silliness and stupidity took on an increasingly strident tone until eventually, I cringed every time it arrived in the mail, fearful of what new insults it would aim at which new victims. I just about had had it when they went after Fr. Neuhaus for being a universalist, specifically for what he wrote in his book, "Death on a Friday Afternoon: Meditations on the Last Words of Jesus from the Cross."

I actually read the book. I own a copy. I didn't recognize the arguments they said Fr. Neuhaus put forward in the book from what I read.

Their nasty review of Fr. Neuhaus turned into something of a feud, which Fr. Neuhaus tried studiously to avoid, but eventually had to engage when they wouldn't let it go.

At that point, I'd paid up a couple of extra years' of subscription, but vowed not to renew.

Our house has been NOR-free for some time, now, and the sun shines brighter, the grass is greener, and the honeysuckles smell sweeter.


sitetest


19 posted on 11/03/2006 3:48:36 PM PST by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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