Apparently the forum AND the website itself are down, and have been down for about a week.

Wow! I'm surprised no one posted that news yet. I just heard about it today. 

Yes, the forum is completely washed-up (most of the old members have moved on to other fora, including CI and SD), with very little *traffic* these days. Most of the huge pile of posts, and most of the member database, is from its "glory days" which are far in the past at this point. 

But as so many people have said in the past, "The forum is crap, but the website has a lot of good information about Traditional Catholicism."

What happened to it?

D***! I was corresponding with someone on that forum through the private messaging system, and I can’t find her anywhere else online.  If she’s here, she’ll recognize my username and poetry.  (If you are this person, please PM me.)

I wonder if that SQL error came from some kind of electronic attack against the site.  It only happened a month after the Supreme Court decision on abortion, and I know there have been attacks against pro-life people since then…

I hope the Main site comes back; it is a good source of information.

It's a shame that such information couldn't be put up on another website. I doubt there was anything unique; Tracy is not a priest, much less a theologian. If she DID personally write anything, then any layman could do just as well. She has no seminary training, theology degree, Sacred Orders, etc.

It's just a shame that we (the Trad world) have to continue to rely on a divorcee, transsɛҳuąƖ-supporting liberal Catholic for one of our main sources of information about Traditional Catholicism.

Isn't there a single man out there with tons of time on his hands, who could rise to the occasion?

God obviously doesn't expect the impossible. If you are poor, God doesn't expect large monetary donations. If you are trying to raise a Catholic family in 2022, you probably don't have a lot of time either. But for the single? I bet there are a lot of single guys out there, who don't know what to do with themselves; who are wasting their time on movies, video games, secular forums and other time-wasters -- with the excuse of course that "God hasn't sent me a suitable spouse yet!" Maybe if you were doing more with your life, you'd attract that unicorn you seek.

Each of us knows what we bring to the table, if anything. Some have health, some have youth, some have wealth, some have time, some have charisma, some have training, some have experience, some have various talents. God will expect a full account of ALL such assets He has given you. Use them wisely.

Frankly, with every year that passes after 2005, it becomes more of a source of shame for Traddieland in general that no MAN has put together a website to replace Fisheaters as the website to research Traditional Catholicism. (Of course, I and others have done the job of replacing the forum pretty thoroughly.) Women should be silent in church. If they wish to know anything, they should ask their husbands (or fathers) at home. That's not my opinion, that's St. Paul the Apostle talking. It's a shame for a woman to lead a Traditional Catholic forum with male and female members. If it were a breastfeeding or pregnancy forum, with all female members, then fine. But Catholic doctrine is quite clear about the unnaturalness of women having authority over men. It's completely against the natural order.

The latter, and support for/toleration of the occult, was the main reason why I left. But I was unaware of the former.

Hey, I would be willing to try if I were a single man. But putting together an extensive site on traditional Catholicism, as a family man, is a Samsonian endeavor compared to just posting on the forum each day.

It was quite big news at the time. It's not so much the fact of being divorced that's the issue. It's what you do after that that's the problem. She was living with one of the guys on her forum "QuisUtDeus" for a time. He was a technical guy who helped move her forum several times. It was the first of many scandals which caused an exodus from the forum. Her later supporting a transsɛҳuąƖ was a different, additional scandal that resonated with a different group, and caused another group to leave.

I'm pretty sure there are still threads about it on CathInfo from that time period; I think it was about 2007-2008.

Ah, here it is:
https://www.cathinfo.com/catholic-living-in-the-modern-world/fisheaters-insanity/

It was quite big news at the time. It's not so much the fact of being divorced that's the issue. It's what you do after that that's the problem. She was living with one of the guys on her forum "QuisUtDeus" for a time. He was a technical guy who helped move her forum several times. It was the first of many scandals which caused an exodus from the forum. Her later supporting a transsɛҳuąƖ was a different, additional scandal that resonated with a different group, and caused another group to leave.

I'm pretty sure there are still threads about it on CathInfo from that time period; I think it was about 2007-2008.

Ah, here it is:
https://www.cathinfo.com/catholic-living-in-the-modern-world/fisheaters-insanity/

Thank you. Someone dug up the old corpse of the tranny scandal back in 2021 when I decided to leave after arguing with people on there who were defending NO conservatives as "good traditional Catholics" who were advocating for hermeticism and the occult (a rabbit hole I even fell into for a time). And then I found out one of the active users was a tranny, and was defended by Tracy, and that was the final nail for me.

But, old scandals aren't worth discussing here. I'll just browse that thread when I get the chance.

Wow ... they didn't take/keep backups?

Sure sounds like it. I think it's for the best. It buries all the heresy and wickedness that can be found in that place. Let's hope it stays dead.

Sure sounds like it. I think it's for the best. It buries all the heresy and wickedness that can be found in that place. Let's hope it stays dead.

I honestly know nothing about it.  I never went there deliberately, but just perhaps once or twice following a link.
 
I spend all my forum/online time here on CI.   I did some time ago spend some time at Catholic Answers, but I never lasted more than a week before getting banned.  

Oh, and that's another thing about when people call me out for posting here too much.  Many of the same critics are all over the place on different forums, to where if you added it all up, they would far exceed my own output.

But, old scandals aren't worth discussing here. I'll just browse that thread when I get the chance.

I just want to make a small comment here --

Yes, the scandal was many years ago. But let me tell you a parable.

A Hollywood actress divorced her husband and got remarried twice. Each time, the new husband ended up leaving, simply going the way of all flesh, due to human weakness, emotions, immaturity, lack of self control, etc. In the end, she ended up "single" again. Note that she never made any pronouncement or retraction for her scandalous life (in getting remarried multiple times while her spouse was still living).

Would this actress be "right with God", just because she happens to be single now? Or is it not that simple? The answer, clearly, is B. She only broke up with her 2 "extra" husbands for human reasons, because those marriages weren't any stronger than her original one. Her relationships were taken from her, and/or they fell apart of their own accord. At no point did she give them up voluntarily for God's sake, convert, or "get right with God" in general.

In other words, any job where it was required to have a "decent life" would still exclude this hypothetical thrice-divorced actress, EVEN THOUGH she is not currently "living in sin" with anyone in particular. She still committed public sin and never repented. She would still have that extremely blemished reputation, and for good reason.

It remains to be seen what Tracy has planned with the GoFundMe and what not. Will the forum come back in some form? It's definitely too soon to say it won't. But either way, the fact is, Tracy is still a "figure" or "known player" in the Trad community, and it's an issue that she's so liberal with regards to Catholic morality. That is a serious issue on account of the influence she has. Especially when moderating a discussion forum, when many topics including Catholic morality (and our attitude towards the modern world) is often discussed.