Hello all. My interest in traditional catholicism began sometime after my conversion to christianity from a disbelief/agnosticism in the supernatural. Ken Hovind convinced me that Evolution was bologna and that The Bible fit the facts. That restored my childhood faith in Christianity, but I had been raised a protestant. In my search for answers as an adult, I found that protestant answers fell short, but that catholic answers seemed to give a fuller answer. That lead to my reading old catechisms online and getting a nice abbreviated version of the newer one from the library, that had wonderful prayers in it, some as old as the fourth century. (as protestants we didn't have anything older than maybe the 1600s)
So, my introduction to the catechism was good. I remember discovering, to my relief that all catechisms were eternally valid, because I knew that vatican II had been a big victory for the left. But I had no idea what a profound effect it had on the church, until I attended a catholic mass.
My first experience with the mass was horrible. I went expecting something like The Bell's of Saint Mary, but instead I got what looked like a very awkward religious ceremony. My impression was that the church was trying very hard to be protestant and modern, while retaining its catholicism at the same time.
So, Bishop Williamson had impressed me, because he stood up so hard for the truth. I remember using him as an example to counter people who said christianity made europeans weak. That always backed them down. No wonder they clobbered the guy!
So, I went to an sspx chapel and saw the mass I had expected in the first place. That was great.
Eventually, I found an old chapel, with a pre-historic priest (ha ha), that wasn't sspx, but that I liked and I made that my home.
Nowadays, I've been enjoying reading the lessons on the 7th commandment in an old german catechism, from 1908. It's amazing how much our values have changed in a hundred years.
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