The famous "Quizzes for a Street Preacher" booklet series, putting these powerful apologetics in the hands of countless Catholics, is now out of print once again.
Booklets on "statue worship", "purgatory", "birth control" and many others, written by the famous Frs. Rumble & Carty, are now out of print even at TAN Books which had reprinted them for about 4 decades.
When I was a teenager and first started REALLY learning and getting into my Faith, I remember the first books I read were: Faith of Our Fathers, and the Radio Replies books (by Frs. Rumble & Carty).
That really got me into my Faith, convincing me how reasonable and true it is. At the time I was a young man buffeted by the world, faced with trying to find a spouse from among the non-Catholics (or so I thought) and I wanted to be able to explain the Faith to them. But what it did was make me stronger in the Faith. And what can I say? I never left it. Maybe I'm a Catholic today because of these Faith-strengthening books!
I just found out about this outage today (since I resell TAN books on my e-commerce website).
How sad that Thomas A. Nelson lost his business, and a Novus Ordo outfit (Saint Benedict Press/Good Will Publishers) purchased it.
We're going to lose more and more of these reprints, as time goes on. Anything unpopular or not making perfect business sense will have to go. Who cares about the effect on the Catholic world, or the formation of future priests. Those concerns are only held by Traditional Catholics who go into business for reasons OTHER THAN just to make money.