Hi it's holysoulsacademy! (the name of our Homeschool), mother of 10, and have been attending the TLM for the past 12 years.  
We named our homeschool as such because we have dedicated all our prayers and works for the Holy Souls in Purgatory.
Homeschooling was critical in bringing us to our own path to Tradition.
Currently attending an SSPX Chapel after many regrettable experiences within the Indult and other Diocesan TLM communities.
Glad to find this forum, pretty interesting.
Looking forward to many "conversations".

Welcome to the forum!
I also went to the Indult but now my nearest TLM is the SSPX too.
I was able to hit the ground running when I went to the SSPX after having gone to the Indult. Dont like the way the Indult promotes the pope all the time tho.
 :farmer:

I am in my early 40s and was born and raised in the Catholic faith in the Post Vatican era in a family that favored pre-conciliar thinking and practices but was not part of any traditional community. My faith weakened in my early teens and I no longer was going to Mass by 18.

I returned to the church in 2003. A few months later I discovered Traditionalism and attended my first Tridentine Mass in February 2004. Nothing has been the same for me since that day.

I am married to a good woman and we have six sons and a daughter.

I used to post on Fisheaters, deleted my account there in 2007, returned a year later, but stopped posting again after a while because I started to suspect there was something fishy about the place beyond the name.  I checked into it from time to time because it is a useful sort of news aggreagator. However, that whole Clare Brigid sent me reeling. In the midst of that, I saw stuff about this site and decided to check it out. (I never saw any of that Laura Bookworm stuff. I missed that when it happened. WOW!)
 
I attend both the Tridentine and the Novus Ordo. I consider them both valid but the Novus Ordo inferior and I only go to it out of necessity and want to phase it out.

I am a journalist at a small daily newspaper in Pennsylvania and have reservations about giving out too much about myself on internet fora.

 :cussing: too many smileys taking up my screen real estate!

So ive been to sspx masses and cmri masses and i can count the number of times on 1hand.

I do daily mass nom when its not too cold in the morning when i wake up hey its the hard wood floors!

For me its all about killing my "death grip" habit for good. Nom confession, nom eucharist, sspx confession, sspx eucharist, cmri confession, cmri eucharist could not get the job done.

15decade rosaries daily could not get the job done. Praying to saints for thheir intercessions from credit card sized collection cards didnt do it for me either.

Fasting was a waste of time. I truly thought it was a demon. But after trying out a lot of these things i saw that valid holy orders and invalid ones arguments and what not made not a speck of a difference. With all that baggage of capital T traditionalism and novus wierdo stuff i finally threw in the towel of surrender. I had just a thought to try out. Put away the computer and tablet. Guess what!? It works. Though its a constant struggle to combat, i just cant let my guard down. When im on these devices and i get the urge to visit bbdotcom i immediately put them away. Right now im doing the 90day no fap challenge and everything is pretty good right now.

Alittle too much info but its a contribution for us men. Put away all internet enabled devices. I mainly use my smartphone for browsing.

I guess im mainly here at cathinfo cause of the level of discussions on the cic and ccc type stuff.

Hi!

My name is Jared. I'm going to be 23 in a couple weeks and I am currently enlisted in the Marine Corps, which makes practicing my faith difficult :drillsergeant:. I am a convert to Catholicism, confirmed in 2010 at a novus ordo parish and have been becoming more and more traditionally minded as the years go on. At this point I have started attending Indult and SSPX masses when I can while leaving the Novus Ordo behind. I am still unsure on a lot of issues involving the crisis of the church but, I just know that the abuses and lack of authentic traditional catholicism is what is driving me away from the novus ordo. I was very fond of Pope Benedict XVI and I am not very fond at all of Pope Francis. However, I do not lean towards sedevecantism. I find the idea of sedevecantism to be extremely frightening and appauling. I find myself in confusion a lot though when I think of the state of the church today. I want to be a saint, I want to be holy and I just want the Church to return to tradition. Perhaps I have said too much for an introduction but, here I am, this is me!

God bless you all and please pray for me... HARD!  :smile:

My name is Rubén - I'm 19 years old and I'm currently a college student attending an Independent parish.

I used to be a typical, vanilla, NO catholic with no substance whatsoever until I decided to become an atheist. I returned and discovered true catholicism starting with reading Ed Feser's The Last Supersition, which rid me of my disgusting atheism. I then was able to participate in a Latin Mass thanks to a friend of mine - it was the most inspiring thing that could have happened to my faith. I realized that the modern garbage being spewed wasn't the true faith, that there existed something more profound - the greatest cure for the ailments of sinful nature.

Anyway, May God bless you all!  

As I never introduced myself properly upon registration, below is a brief account of my conversion to the Catholic Church which I posted on another forum and now reproduce here.

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It goes like this: I've been a conspiracy nut for a long time and various speculations (or should I say calumnies) surrounding the Catholic Church are a prominent fixture of many conspiracy theories. One such popular theory postulates that the Jesuits control world politics and are the originators of Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ. I was researching some similar claims made by a protestant anti-Catholic on youtube when I stumbled across a Bishop Williamson video on Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ in the Catholic Church. I was immediately struck by his tone and manner. He was rational and logical, and I'd never been exposed to rational Christianity before, only Protestant "get ready for the rapture" loons and sentimental Anglican or Novus-Ordo types. I was intrigued and scoured youtube for more of his material. Suddenly, his arguments, the things he was saying just made total sense of what I'd learnt beforehand in my days as a conspiracy-nut - what I'd learnt about the Satanic mass media, 9/11, the role of the Jews, Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ - everything. In all the years that I had been engrossed in researching these things, nothing I'd ever encountered even came close to adequately explaining just why this was all happening, but Bishop Williamson's arguments - or, you could say, the Catholic interpretation of history - brought all the pieces together. But let me be more specific...

Now, everything I knew about history before finding the Catholic faith had been filtered through a lens of Darwinian evolutionism, Freudian psychoanalysis, and Marxist historiography courtesy of our cultural overlords. But it never made sense to me that all of the currents of human history are driven by simple biological imperatives and economic factors, and that we people are merely swept along by these currents. Bishop Williamson's characterisation of history in one of his talks as defined not by economic factors, not by politics, not by biological imperatives, but primarily by religion was extremely compelling even without further elaboration on his part. Even though I still identified at this point as an agnostic, I could not reasonably deny that, if one assumes that the Biblical accounts are true, the Catholic interpretation of history as being driven by a head-on clash between Christ and his Church on the one hand, and Satan, represented by the Jews, Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ and their allies on the other made alot more sense than any of the Atheist historiography ever could, regardless of what premises you assume as fact beforehand.

It was primarily these historical arguments that drove me to research the Catholic faith in more depth, but not solely. In the process of watching these videos I was exposed to Catholic tradition and discovered that what I hitherto believed to be Catholicism, the hippy lovey-dovey globalist-relativist nonsense I'd seen from Pope John Paul II and Benedict XVI, was really not Catholicism at all. It was knowing that which compelled me to discover real Catholicism. From there I plunged into almost incessant research on Catholic teaching and apologetics. I bought dozens of books on the subject, locked myself away at every opportunity to focus on serious reading, and very quickly I discovered that I was no longer agnostic. Soon after that I found myself Catholic. Not based on my feelings, but based on reason and faith.

Nice post!  I have heard said that the humble and sincere will find the truth.  It seems you are proof of that sentiment.  

I am just a person, one person in this world.
I live in Melbourne and I attend the mass every Sunday morning at 11am at
St Patrick's Cathedral & then I go to St Francis Church at 6pm for the evening mass.
I attend 2 masses because I love being in both churches.
I am quite conservative that's because I've been brought up in a Muslim culture.

I do hope to share my opinions & read interesting posts. God Bless.

Things will never be well in Australia, but who am I to judge. There are just too many "stories" going around and the media has been pretty unkind to "us" and the "palace" in Rome is not helping "us" either.

I guess it's really an "adorotedevote" in Australia, only faith can keep us together.

God Bless.