Author Topic: The Remnant newspaper (Read 2953 times)

Marlelar · « **on:** August 26, 2012, 10:05:43 PM »

I stopped reading the Remnant newspaper years ago because after a 10 yr subscription I got fed up with the creeping modernism in that paper. Now I am starting to see Mr. Matt (editor of the Remnant) mentioned in more traditional minded circles, most recently as a guest of "Voice of Catholic Radio". Has he, along w/the paper become more traditional?

Marsha

Thorn · « **Reply #1 on:** August 26, 2012, 10:40:56 PM »

Good question! I stopped several years ago as well. Too many things were wrong & letters to the editor or a certain columnist didn't do any good.

songbird · « **Reply #2 on:** August 26, 2012, 11:02:00 PM »

Matt, I think, has spoke at conferences with John Vennari of Catholic family News? And Judith Sharpe of In Spirit of Chartes Committe would know him.

Anthony Benedict · « **Reply #3 on:** August 27, 2012, 12:45:54 AM »

Ditto on lapsing the sub.

Mike Matt is an extremely fine individual and I think we all reacted to what was a probable case of hope triumphing over experience in his case, along with Chris Ferrara, at the time of the election of Benoit XVI.

I, like Mike and Chris, was given to think Ratzinger was going to kick arses, take names, toss live grenades and clean out the Augean stable.

Ooops!

( It happens.... )

N.B. The guy who got it ABSOLUTELY right, from the moment the white smoke hit the azure Roman sky, was John Vennari. He was never hoodwinked by the agitprop.

TKGS · « **Reply #4 on:** August 27, 2012, 06:37:37 AM »

I haven't seen The Remnant in a while, but Anthony Benedict is quite right. He was taken with the election of Cardinal Ratzinger and expected, I think, a return to tradition to come to the Conciliar Church. For some reason, he forgot all of the negative things he had written about Ratzinger in the past.

Mr. Matt is (or was) an extreme anti-sedevacantist. His newspaper ran a series of articles a few years ago about the "sedevacantist enterprise". I never quite understood what that series was getting at (I was not a sedevacantist at the time), but it seemed as if a major premise was that sedevacantist "groups" were capitalizing on the sedevacantist theory in nefarious ways. The whole thing didn't make much sense.

Marlelar · « **Reply #5 on:** August 27, 2012, 09:54:58 AM »

Quote from: Anthony Benedict

Ditto on lapsing the sub.

N.B. The guy who got it ABSOLUTELY right, from the moment the white smoke hit the azure Roman sky, was John Vennari. He was never hoodwinked by the agitprop.

I agree, I have been reading CFN even before I dropped the Remnant. I guess I will continue taking what M. Matt says with a grain of salt.

Marsha

RomanCatholic1953 · « **Reply #6 on:** August 27, 2012, 10:32:29 AM »

I was one of the original subscrbers to the Remnent When Michael's
Dad left the Wanderer based in St.Paul. I kept up my subscription
into the 2000's when the subscription was going out of sight.
I even attended some of it's conferences including the one in
Los Angeles where Archbishop Lefebvre was the main speaker.
The internet forum such as CathInfo has replaced subscription
print. If there is anything worthwhile now in the Remnent, I will
read it for free on the Internet for free.

nadieimportante · « **Reply #7 on:** August 27, 2012, 11:18:23 AM »

Quote from: RomanCatholic1953

I was one of the original subscrbers to the Remnent When Michael's
Dad left the Wanderer based in St.Paul. I kept up my subscription
into the 2000's when the subscription was going out of sight.
I even attended some of it's conferences including the one in
Los Angeles where Archbishop Lefebvre was the main speaker.
The internet forum such as CathInfo has replaced subscription
print. If there is anything worthwhile now in the Remnent, I will
read it for free on the Internet for free.

Mr. Matt has like 7 children, and the subscription is like $26 a year. You should cut him some slack. I've had a subscription since I first heard of The Remnant in 1995.

If every trad didn't buy his paper because "If there is anything worthwhile now in the Remnant, I will read it for free on the Internet for free", he would loose his livelihood, and you would not see any of his "free on the internet" anymore.

Thorn · « **Reply #8 on:** August 27, 2012, 12:33:49 PM »

I didn't stop subscribing because of the price but because Mr. Matt (who I also believe is a fine man & I too went to a conference where he was going to be a speaker just to meet & see him in the flesh. He didn't disappoint) just couldn't see some obvious things & some of his writers couldn't either so why pay to be irritated?

I don't think that Mr. Matt will free his livihood, but yes, he may lose it.

Belloc · « **Reply #9 on:** August 27, 2012, 01:52:41 PM »

Met Matt in 2009, wound up eating lunch with him. Was friendly, talkative, but tended to be a bit distant too and not as open as Vennari and others.

I disagreed with their gaga over Palin and B16, though some articles are good, esp in past. As soon as McCain and Palin came along, their news went to a very pro-GOP, anti-Dem stance, with some whitewashing of GOP......

do not read much at Remnant these days.......