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Matthew · « **Reply #60 on:** January 17, 2010, 10:11:27 PM »

This is really pathetic, but this forum already had "Peter the Roman" pay us a visit.

I guess you two will have to duke it out to decide who's the REAL "Peter the Roman".

One thing for sure: No one can claim CathInfo is boring, or without character (or characters :wink:)

Also, I've already met "Elias", but he goes by the common name of Joseph Saraceno.

Pretty bad when you meet someone who claims to be Elias, but it's not the first one!

Matthew

jhfromsf68 · « **Reply #61 on:** February 16, 2010, 11:57:02 PM »

Hi everyone:) I've been lurking for awhile and have finally decided to come out of hiding :wave: I live in Northern California and I'm a convert to the Church. I started my conversion in 99 but wasn't actually baptized and confirmed untill 2007. Unfortunatly I'm going through a rough time right now struggling with sin:(

I look forward to taking part in the forum and getting to know you all.
God Bless
James

Joseph de Maistre · « **Reply #62 on:** April 07, 2010, 10:24:35 PM »

Thank you for making this excellent Traditionalist Catholic forum - I've been gradually learning more and more about the TLM and have recently purchased a Douay-Rheims Bible.

The first time I saw Bishop Williamson, I knew I was meant to delve deeper in my Catholic faith. For a long time, I was a halfway Catholic, just doing enough to "get by." But I realized that I wasn't really doing enough.

Seeing the zeal with which Williamson knows the truth is refreshing, and I hope to build the same zeal in my love for God.

NeelyAnn · « **Reply #63 on:** April 14, 2010, 01:41:29 PM »

New here. I am a traditional Catholic homeschooling mom. I prefer to lurk more than contribute, unless I really have something ot say. I just like keeping up on news and seeing what others have to say. I like learning from those who may know more.

ServusSpiritusSancti · « **Reply #64 on:** May 21, 2010, 01:11:42 PM »

Hello. I am a new member here on CatholicInfo. I've been wanting to sign up here for a while and finally have. I am looking forward to posting about Traditional Catholicism and other things here.

SpiritusSanctus

CathMomof7 · « **Reply #65 on:** May 25, 2010, 06:44:51 PM »

Hello everyone. I thought I should introduce myself first before I start engaging in discussions. I don't want anyone to think I'm a troll. I've been reading here for about 6 months. I think I like it better here than FE and AQ. Not sure if I should say that or not. Anyway, a bit about myself....I am 43 and a convert originally to NO Mass about 15 years ago. My husband was baptized a Catholic but that was about it. We both went through RCIA at the same time. Our Catholic life has been varied and, at times, tumultous. We've moved around quite a bit and we have a lot of experience with the various types of NO Masses. Some of those experiences led us to leave Catholicism on more than one occasion. About 12 years ago, we suffered greatly in our marriage and separated. We eventually divorced and remained so for 3 years. It was during that time that I had a real spiritual conversion. I returned to Church and was blessed with a fairly traditional priest who became my confessor. It was through him and St. Joseph's intercession that I was able to be reconciled to my husband. Since our reconciliation, my husband and I have had so many blessings and graces. 6 years ago, we moved from our fairly traditional Novus Ordo parish in the South to the Northeast. I need not mention that things are not very traditional here. It has been painful, but through the process we have grown in a more traditional direction. 2 years ago over the summer we began to attend an FSSP Mass in our diocese. It was about a 2 1/2 drive for us, so it wasn't something we were always able to do. We found another TLM closer to our home in another diocese. We attended that for quite awhile but that Mass was discontinued. We were at a loss for a long time, but we recently made the decision that we could no longer, in good conscience, attend another Novus Ordo Mass. So right after Easter, we began attending an SSPX chapel about 40 minutes from our house. I'll say we are a bit confused some of the time but we have already many graces. I hope to find some support here as well as answers to questions when they arise.

Cindy

Oh, I would like to mention--we are expecting our 7th child in November. Please pray for us.

Thursday · « **Reply #66 on:** June 01, 2010, 10:02:20 AM »

Hi all, I'm a 35 year old married with two kids Catholic. Kids are 1 and 3, both girls.

Grew up in the NO, 4 years ago I heard an interview with Hutton Gibson about the V2 takeover and been trying to become fully Catholic since.

Like the person above me I prefer this site to FE, not that there aren't a lot of decent folks over there.

Don't get much time to post but hopefully I'll be able to contribute something.

Anyone here think we could get the Legion of Decency up and running again? I'd just love to shut down holiwood, comedy central, Borat,etc

Alexandria · « **Reply #67 on:** June 01, 2010, 11:58:47 AM »

Welcome, Thursday!

Are you an American living in Korea? And I assume it is the south.

P.S. Keep that picture of you-know-who dusted at all times! :pop:

ServusSpiritusSancti · « **Reply #68 on:** June 08, 2010, 09:30:41 PM »

Quote from: Peregrine

Quote from: Belloc
Quote from: Peregrine
and sedevacantist.

why did you go this route?

For several years I studied everything I could find pro and con, and finally concluded that sedevacantism is the Catholic position. It is not feasible to expound the arguments in a forum, but I would say that Rama Coomaraswamy's book "The Destruction of Christian Tradition" is the most comprehensive and clear on this subject, and probably was the most convincing for me.

I am not a sedevacanist, but I do respect sedevacanists. Most of them really understand why Vatican II was a bad council and what has gone wrong in the Church since Vatican II. Really, most sedevacanists are Traditional Catholics. They aren't the "terrible people" the modern-day Catholic world depicts them as. Before I joined this forum I was on another Catholic forum (wished I had joined this one to begin with) and the people on there would always ask the Traditionals if they were sedevacanists, as if they were horrible people if they were.

I feel Traditional Catholicism (the true Catholic faith) is the true position that we were robbed of thanks to Vatican II. The Church may be a remnant, but the good news is that is still exists.

Matto · « **Reply #69 on:** June 17, 2010, 12:06:31 PM »

Hello. My name is Matthew. I am new here, although I have been lurking for a while. I feel alone in the world because I do not know any people who agree with me about things. I am in my late twenties. I do not know much about Catholicism because when I was growing up they never taught me anything at all about it. When I learned about it a couple of years ago I realized it was true, which was very scary because almost nobody has the faith anymore which means that almost everyone I ever knew is destined for Hell, unless God works miracles to convert them. I recently started going to a SSPX chapel and I like it there.

My favorite pope is Pius IX because when he was first pope he was poisoned by evil liberal ideas, but then he repented and changed his ways. I read an old book about him called Cross upon Cross that I liked very much. I started liking Pope Pius IX when I read his Syllabus of Errors which I liked very much and thought was one of the greatest things I had ever read. I hope that our current pope has a similar conversion like Pope Pius IX had. I know some people here think that Benedict XVI is not really pope because he does bad things and some people think that he is our pope even though he does bad things. I am undecided and would not be surprised either way, but if, against all odds, he started doing stuff like condemning Vatican II and banning the New Mass I would be very happy and would probably follow him.

Matthew · « **Reply #70 on:** June 20, 2010, 04:48:53 PM »

Traditio has allowed bald-face lies in their "Traditional Mass Directory" when it comes to their reports of the SSPX, however -- so take their "warnings" with a grain of salt.

They seem to have an axe to grind against the SSPX for some reason.

I posted a thread on here a few weeks ago on this topic. It is quite disgusting how an ostensibly traditional organization, one that claims to care for souls, could be so lacking in decency, honesty, and charity.

That having been said, I would ask all further discussion of this topic to be moved to its own thread. We don't want to clutter up the "Introduce Yourself" thread.

If anyone wishes to ignore my request, they will find their offending post(s) deleted. Sorry, I have to maintain some order on my forum.

Matthew

Matthew · « **Reply #71 on:** June 21, 2010, 12:39:17 PM »

Well, I wanted to address the lie anywhere and everywhere it was found, yet I didn't want anyone to start a discussion about Traditio here as a result.

I also wanted to remind people that discussions in this thread are to be kept very short & sweet, or it will take newcomers forever to read through this thread to get to know the members.

jrlomy2k · « **Reply #72 on:** June 29, 2010, 10:38:01 AM »

Not sure how all of this works, or if I am doing this right but here goes:

About me:

Name: Jennifer
Age: 38
Location: Central IL/ formerly MN
Status: Single
Beliefs: Sedevacantist

How's that for a start? I was raised in the Novus Ordo, but at least my parents were good enough to keep us rooted in the fundamentals of the True Faith. I was in the dark about many of the ongoings of the church which has brought forth "new terminology" such as Novus Ordo, Traditionalists, Indult, Sedevacantism, etc....etc... I was taught that Catholicism meant only one thing. True Catholicism does--what we have on earth now--oh, boy!

My first experience with "traditional Catholicism" was a funeral mass (latin) for my grandmother (in an Independent Chapel) when I was 13. I have relatives/ancestors who were in the religious order at many levels, mostly prior to VII. It took a crisis/tragedy in my immediate family in the early-mid '90's for my parents to go back to (at what at least appeared) Traditional Catholicism by attending "Latin Mass". (Though most of my family and relatives still attend the NO; few of them are affiliated with some "trad group or another".)

Long story short, I have experienced the "trad group" gammut. I've attended Tridentine, Indult, SSPX, SSPV, CMRI, Independent chapels/churches. Some relatives and I have had some personal contact/experiences with those who have/ are forming "splinter groups" (those who take one article/point in history and make it an entire platform of their beliefs ie: Siri Thesis, BoD/BoB, etc...*For the record, I have not jumped on the Feenyite or Siri bandwagons)

While questioning (out of sincerity, not out of disobedience) these churches and why "one is different than the other"...I learned that they all have one thing in common: They all hate each other. I have never experienced a more backbiting, loathing, scandalous group of so called "leaders of souls" than the ones who are supposed to be guiding them. I know I am not the only person who has had personal connections to any of these particular groups, but experiencing some of this practically first hand, I can't imagine why anyone in my position wouldn't choose the same path that I did if given the same situation. After much consideration and heartbreak and research--I chose to become what "traditionalists" label "home alone" catholic. I know that this term tastes like vile in the mouth of Traditionalist sects, but I haven't been able to find true Catholicism in any single one of them.

To be honest, I've joined the group out of curiosity partially to find friendship because, even as a traditionalist (but especially being single, living alone and having very little Catholic influence outside of my "front door",) I'm looking for a bit of comradarie. I know that most all of the members here will disagree with my choice of "being Catholic" But, at this point, I cannot be convinced otherwise. I can be quite "passionate" about what I believe, and it's only out of frustration at the crisis in the (earthly) church has posed that I become "angry"; it is not against anyone personally. I can get a bit obstinate at times, and I am trying to practice more humility seeking skills. I only ask that you respect this, as I will try and respect yours; we can disagree to agree. (and vice versa).

I guess I'm stating this off the bat because I've briefly viewed reasons for being "ousted". While I know I am not the only one who believes as I do, I just have found very few people who do. Just hoping there may be a few friends here.

God bless you all and have a good day!

Raoul76 · « **Reply #73 on:** June 29, 2010, 11:02:05 AM »

Jennifer said:

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But, at this point, I cannot be convinced otherwise. I can be quite "passionate" about what I believe, and it's only out of frustration at the crisis in the (earthly) church has posed that I become "angry";

I was a home-aloner for seven months or thereabouts and am probably a lot like you -- given to anger and pride and self-righteousness, or worse. Once, I had a full-on Messiah complex and thought I was this shining end-times prophet, if not a Michael the Archangel figure. So submitting myself to God and fighting through pride has been my life's work, you could say.

Here is what I've learned though. We can give God the burden of this Church crisis, we don't need to carry it -- nor can we. The pride comes in when you want to be the one who suffers the most from the crisis, who is the most angry.

You complain about all the backbiting in the trad groups, yet instead of working from within these trad groups, you are sitting at home thinking you are more charitable and thus more Catholic than they are -- see the trap? You in turn are now backbiting them and you are the ultimate Catholic alone in your bubble.

Alexandria, work your magic! She prayed for me when I was in a situation like yours, and it seemed to work.

jrlomy2k · « **Reply #74 on:** June 29, 2010, 02:31:13 PM »

Raoul,

As far as "more to the story"...not exactly sure what you're implying, the tone in which it may be stated---well, it's not very welcoming. *It's difficult to discern "tone inflection" in type, so forgive me if I have presumed wrongly.

As far as gossip, who here can cast the first stone? But, you made a comment which is probably more correct than I had attempted to explain. The CMRI and SSPX do have a "revolving door policy", yet grossly contradict each other. Does any other Catholic not see the problem with this? You are correct; the CMRI are a friendly bunch. But, make no mistake, they cannot be left out of the "scandal/backbiting" group. This is only logical because without a Church head, there is no one to govern or discipline them. At risk of being accused as a "gossip", it can be left at that. However, to clarify something for you and anyone who might have misunderstood my position as a Catholic. I left these groups because of doctrinal reasons; the social iniquities of these groups only sealed the deal.

I don't, nor ever have considered myself an end-times prophet, nor do I have a God complex. I am a "simple-minded" person, and while I do try to learn my faith, Christ did not make His church so complex that it could not be understood by all. To me, it all boils down to simple, elementary catechism. You presume that nothing has been addressed with these groups. This is far from the case, yet nothing has been remedied. "By their fruits, you shall know them".

As far as anger is concerned, it is a character flaw amongst dozens that I have had and am working on; who doesn't have one of those? Frustration would describe it more.

Either way, I hardly believe I am to solely carry the "church crisis" for the whole world. But, as Catholics, (especially now who are without a Head, with all that has come about since VII--)we ALL carry the burden of salvation for souls. We cannot, or should not pass it on for others to worry about. "Passing the salvation buck" was never the ideation of the Catholic Church in the first place. We cannot presume these "priests" will do our thinking for us. I'm just doing what I believe is right and Catholic. If someone has proof of otherwise, then so be it. I will be the first one in the pews and confessional when we have a valid church with valid priests. We are only held accountable for what we know; willful ignorance does not excuse anyone. *Yes, I know I'm speaking to the choir.

Raoul, I hope I might have been able to clarify things for you or anyone who might have had implied the same. Outside of all of this, I really am personable and not difficult to get along with. :D

God bless,
Jennifer

PS- At risk of making posts longer than ought, how do I make "previous comment" boxes within a response that I see when someone wants to recall a certain statement by others? Many apologies for lengthy posts.