Author Topic: Bye Bye Rumble and Carty classics (Read 478 times)

Matthew · « **on:** April 27, 2016, 03:36:41 PM »

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.

AlligatorDicax · « **Reply #1 on:** May 02, 2016, 11:12:19 PM »

Quote from: Matthew (Apr 27, 2016, 4:36 pm)

Booklets [...] written by the famous Frs. Rumble & Carty, are now out of print even at TAN Books which had reprinted them for about 4 decades. 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.

Silly me! Because "rumble" is late-20th-century slang for a fight between 2 rival groups (e.g.: football players from 2 high schools), whether impromptu or scheduled

, I'd assumed that the topic title named a fictional duo along the lines of the even-more-famous Hardy Boys, or possibly a pair of comic-book characters.

I hadn't expected them to be genuine preVatican-II priests:
· Rev. Dr. Leslie Audoen Rumble, M.S.C.
: 1892--(ord.) 1924--(ob.) 1975.
· Rev. Charles Mortimer Carty: ____?--(ob.) 1964.

Sooo, what's their copyright status? It's been only 41 years since the death of Fr. Rumble. Which matches the "4 decades" given above for reprinting. Might release into the public domain occur sooner--somehow--than the current U.S. legal threshhold at 70 years after death (thus 2045)?  Or did TAN Books acquire & renew the copyrights?

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Note +: Missionaries of the Sacred Heart: a French order, but with a monastery in Rumble's native Sydney, Australia.

Note #: Typically without firearms, but no Marquis-of-Queensbury Rules (e.g.: John Wayne in The Quiet Man). Thus the Elton John song "Saturday night's all right for fighting" (which seems seriously at odds with what I'd assume from that performer's openly sodomite nature), but I'm multiply digressing.

Author Topic: Bye Bye Rumble and Carty classics (Read 478 times)

Matthew

Bye Bye Rumble and Carty classics

AlligatorDicax

Bye Bye Rumble and Carty classics