Seeing as I’ve been posting here for a few months now, an introduction is long overdue, but here it is: 

Hello. My name is James, and I am currently 19 years old. I am an American, and I was raised in the Novus Ordo Church, but was only brought there occasionally by my mother, while my father is a lapsed follower of Greek Orthodoxy. I left when I was about 15-16, since I thought that “modern science” had all of the answers, an attitude I picked up from mass media and my public schooling. At this time of my life, I was getting caught up in the “New Atheist” movement, and was one myself for about little over a year. Considering also I had witnessed quite a few abominable Novus Ordo Masses as a young boy, I had learned that the Novus Ordo Religion, which I believed to be Catholicism, was not to be taken seriously. 

After a serious depression between that time and around the beginning of my junior year of high school, when I was 17, I became more interested in religion, and specifically what I thought was Catholicism, the Novus Ordo Religion. With my return, I began actively learning about these matters, along with becoming more involved by attending the New Mass (which was the only Mass I knew, if it is even a Mass) and a rather Protestanized Youth Group. I struggled a lot with certain sins at this time, and had many attachments to worldly things and beliefs at this time. At this time, I also was learning about the Catholic Faith online, and thought that the information that I would be finding there would correlate to what I was seeing in real life. Boy, was I wrong. Eventually, by the grace of God, I discovered the tapes of Fr. Gregory Hesse on Youtube, which were then also being circulated by a channel called “Christus Rex”, which got removed some time ago. The other main source I was listening to at the time was Taylor Marshall. This newfound information forced me to reconsider everything that I had now learned, but to make a long story short, it ended up with me leaving the New Mass for good, and with me attending TLM exclusively (FSSP, though I hope to start going to the SSPX chapel in my area when the time comes - doubt over their ordinations has caused me to change in this regard, and I don’t agree with the compromising position they’ve put themselves in). Although I had to fight my parents over this, it was definitely worth it, and now see how the hand of God was guiding me during this pivotal point in my short life. (However, I have been forced to attend the New Mass on occasion by my family, but I never receive communion there anymore and try to act passively). 


I have recently been attending college at a Novus Ordo university, having finished my freshman year this May. I went mainly because of my lack of knowledge and naivety towards the New Religion, and the influence of my parents. Quite frankly, I despise it. However, it has given me an opportunity to see through the system of the Conciliar Church for what it is. Seeing the false principles of the NO that I had learned about from Bishop Williamson’s conferences being put into practice before my very eyes shocked me, and made me realize how far gone the Newchurch really is. Without being armed with such knowledge, and without my love of the Faith and the grace of God, I probably would have apostatized. (Interestingly enough, I first “discovered” Bishop Williamson through a video featuring him that was uploaded on Vox Catholica’s YT channel. It’s been taken down by now, I think). I now support the SSPX Resistance position, since I abhor the possibility of a “reconciliation” with the Conciliar Church that will only just turn the SSPX into another FSSP or ICKSP. 

I love studying the Catholic Faith, reading, and writing. The rosary, especially praying the 15 decades every day, has been a huge help in my life. I also consider it a great privilege to be the owner of this YouTube channel, which I set up many months ago to help souls learn about the True Faith: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCIaDtOHGHQfAMoudFzfOjw?view_as=subscriber
Look forward to participating more here. 

Hello!

I am SperaInDeo's wife. As he has mentioned in his introduction, we both have been lurking for a few years. I am just now making an account because I have heard that there is a women's only forum that may serve as a useful resource for me as a wife and mother. I need all the help I can get! 

God bless!

Why can't I make new topics in the "General Discussion" board? Is that normal?

Why can't I make new topics in the "General Discussion" board? Is that normal?

For some time there had been abuse of the General Discussion forum.  Members tended to just start new threads there so avoid having to think about where to put them and not because they really belonged there, so Matthew blocked posting in that forum.  I do find that some topics genuinely belong there and I have to squeeze them into some loosely-related sub-forum.

I do wish there were an easier way to get a longer "Recent Threads" listing, however, since if a thread doesn't appear on the short list, I end up having to poke around various sub-fora looking for it.  Perhaps there is but I don't know how to find it.

I can't make topics so I'm posting this here:



Three different websites. You can find this vulgar crap just about anywhere, but I'm not traipsing about the web for anymore eye-gouging samples. It occurs in the real world too, mostly among the big stores and grocery chains. I call it Soylent Deco, and I believe there are architectural expressions of this blasphemous regicide against all form. Its that rounded-edge, like your Fortune 500 mother corp has rounded all the edges in the city so you don't miss work from bumping into a wall while staring at your Apple virtual life simulator...

Trash.

Hello, my name is Matthew. I became Christian after a long rebellion, and I'm attending RCIA taken from the Baltimore Catechism. A deacon gave me the Council of Trent too, so most of my questions can be answered without going online. I loved the Mass the first time I saw one, and I was raised calvinist and had contempt for smells and bells my whole life. I hope to be married and a father some day, I think that's my calling, but I'm about as closed and dour a character as Flay, in Titus Groan.

Hello,
I'm new here.  I love my Traditional Catholic Faith.  

This looks like a good forum and I look forward to learning from and sharing with all of you!

Thank you!  I will. :)

I'm not able to get the thumbs up button to work.

Also, I can't find a list of my threads/posts.

Is there a place I can turn for help or should I email, Matthew?

I've been a lurker for several years. While we are still able to communicate I wanted to thank Matthew and all the members of Cathinfo. I have learned a lot from the discussions and debate. I've come to see you all as friends and rarely go a day without checking in on CI.
I heard Mass and received communion today for all of you today. If we don't meet in this life I hope to see you all on the other side of this vale of tears.