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
NOR has changed radically in the last fifteen years, which is why I stopped subscribing.