Greetings, CathInfo....

I am a sedevacantist but I am not beligerant against traditionalists or anything like that... at least both are against Vatican 2 and in favor of the Latin Mass. I am sort of saddened by the crisis of the church but I am hopeful and I am sure that God will ensure the gates of hell will not prevail.

Welcome! I hold a similar position to yours, enjoy the forum.

Thank you, it's good to know there's somewhere online where I can discuss these things and where it doesn't appear to be dominated by militant progressives.

Greetings everyone,
I hail from the PNW, and I hold to the sedevacantist belief. Although baptized as an infant in the Church I was raised in a pantheistic new age home and only a few years ago I was a convert from Protestantism to the VII church which I believed was the church of the ages. I immediately gravitated after Confirmation to the R&R position but I have recently started attending Mass at a CMRI parish in my area.
At any rate, thank you for providing the forum.

Greetings a new name! What is the PNW?

Probably Pacific North West, US. One of the original CMRI locations is there.

I am Eliza10, a convert since 200 from evangelical Catholicism. I am willing to call myself a traditional Catholic, now even though the cartoon of that on the internet and popping up in forums is so BAD, and in real life I do not see this among like-minded TradCaths, so I expect to run in to some of those cartoons here (among the regular folk). 

I post on CAF but trads are not so welcome there. I just signed up at Fisheters, since my husband and I eat fish on Fridays, but just got banned from posting - this in less than a month since signing up (as St.Eliza). I have no idea why since Vox doesn't respond to simple requests for an explanation. I do not necc. want to discuss Fisheaters because I do not want to go where I am (for whatever reason) unwelcome. Also I just got a job I have long wanted, and I won't have much time anyway. 

I realized some things while on Fisheters that I will be wary of here. I will explain them.

I would love some input from like-minded folk here how they deal with these things when/if they occur here:

1. I do not want to argue with folk who just want to argue for the sake of arguing. The type who only want to make their OWN points - in response to a post where this is hardly related to the thread topic. Once they are engaged in their goal, an argument, they will not acknowledge any point you make, because it's about winning for them, not sharing and arriving at understanding. I will try to identify these folk and avoid them. :boxer:

2. I do not want to be a target of SSPXers or others separated from Francis whose goal it is to convert me, arguing that if I have not chosen their path then I am sinning by remaining with Our Holy Mother the Church with Francis as Pope. The man is frightening just like his best buddies are. The state of the USCCB and other worldwide church hierarchy is shameful, and probably worse and more widespread than it appears. I see it, for me, as sinning to leave it, and I see our Church as being in it's passion. Who would follow Jesus through the streets of Jerusalem when he was bloody and defeated looking? Not many. I am following our Church like that. The Holy part, not the dirty part. I respect that others are following their conscience to do otherwise and I have done quite a bit of reading for the arguments to do so and the arguments are compelling. I respect the different viewpoint, and expression of it. I just don't want to be the target of their converting me. 

The Church is troubled and we have to find our way. Listening and sharing is can and should be good and helpful. Jesus will save it in the end. meanwhile there are souls to be gained for Christ. 


3. I want nothing to do with anyone who says "Shame on you" because you don't agree with their take on things.
 

And I have some questions:

1. If I post here about my thoughts or questions about any private revelation that the church has not made a statement against, am I going to get jumped on by folk that think all private revelation should not be looked at or discussed, because Catholics don't need to ever peek at private revelation at all? I would like to see discussion of actual reasons why a thing could not be from God. But other forums have folk that seem to be about the job of policing such discussion in order to disallow any discourse at all. Is that how it is here? 

2. What topics are censored on this forum? 

3. What are reasons for suspensions and bannings? Is there a procedure? Is one given a reason? 

Thank you. 

Another question is, I am new and I wonder if that is why I cannot "like" a post. When am I able to do that?

Greetings, Eliza10. I imaging your name is short for Elizabeth, and not Elijah. If you attend Mass at a CMRI chapel. I recommend two people to you. Look up MyrnaM's posts and Raoul76's posts. They are both hero members here. Raoul76, Mike, hasn't posted in a while. At one point he was my favorite posters and I miss his posts here. Myrna once shared her most important dream with me and I put it on my old blog where I shared my dreams with the world, but since have deleted. She had the most wonderful dream one night which I believe was from God where it was revealed to her that her biggest fault was vanity. This is her blog: MyrnaM's Blog

I suggest you read it. And do a search for Raoul76 on Cathinfo. You can use the Cathinfo search function, Google's Advanced Search function, or best of all, you can go to Raoul76's profile here and manually read all of his posts. He used to think I was a fraud and not a real Catholic and I love him for it. Someone once told me he was going to travel half-way across the world to baptize a good woman who loves Our Lord but was living alone with God in a land where the faith is criminalized by the government. Of course that is an unjust law, but what an act of charity on the part of Raoul76!

There are other sedevacantist as well, like 2Vermont, but I recommend looking into the posts of those two.

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Greetings Eliza10, what do you mean by evangelical Catholicism?
Don't know about any bad cartoons here.

Hi Nadir, Oops, I meant Ep

" my husband and I eat fish on Fridays,"
Did you mean this or is it a typo? Because that would mean that you are not really a traditional Catholic.

I would love some input from like-minded folk here how they deal with these things when/if they occur here:

Fire away with your questions. It's better to start another thread.

2. I do not want to be a target of SSPXers or others separated from Francis ....

You need to realise that SSPXers are not separated from Francis. There are quite a few sedevacantists here but generally they will not try to convert, as Matthew disallows dogmatic sedevacantism.
 

And I have some questions:

1. If I post here about my thoughts or questions about any private revelation that the church has not made a statement against....

It is unthinkable that the Church needs to rule on every private revelation. It is far safer to accept only what has been tried and tested and found worthy of belief. This is how the Church approaches it. She finds a revelation "worthy of belief" and it is safer to stick with that.

We are not against private revelation per se, as long as you realise that they do need the approval of the Church before you place absolute trust in them. There are many wackos out there who are out to get followers, for many reasons

2. What topics are censored on this forum?

Almost anything is allowed as long as it is reasonable, as far as I can see.

3. What are reasons for suspensions and bannings? Is there a procedure? Is one given a reason?

Being a dogmatic sedevacantist, and repeated offensive postings would be all I can think of, off hand.

Oops, Nadir, I meant Evangelical Protestantism. I was baptized Methodist as an infant, grew up Presbyterian, became "born-again" (committed my life to Christ) in college, and was a member of various Evangelical Protestant churches until I converted after a journey of discovery that began with Scott & Kimberly Hahn's Rome Sweet Home (and a rosary)...
I have NEVER heard of it "not being Catholic" to eat fish on Fridays! Is this a SSPX thing? I am not sure I know any Catholics that go meatless on fridays - my husband and I seem to be the only ones. (at our local NO, that is. We go to Latin Mass at the Basilica on Sundays, which is the day it is available near us, but we have not met people there yet, as it doesn't seem to be an actual community). But we understand that the church teaching (that doesn't get taught from the pulpit) is that Friday should be meatless, unless we make up some other discipline. So we go meatless, but yes to fish.
Okay, yes, I should have known that SSPX is not separated from Francis. Oops, sorry.
I know it is "safer" to accept only "tried and true" but I am not just trying to be safe. I want to know and love the things of God. So I use discernment with private revelations. I like to understand why it is not true. If we truly want to know that, I believe God reveals it to us. There are several "maybes" I look at from time to time and wonder about, sort of waiting for the "wrong" to show up. Lots more others I have decided are false (always lots of good stuff there, but the "not right" discounts the whole thing). And there are two works of private revelation of the many that I love and trust. I don't care if people disagree with me on those. I just hope there can be respectful disagreement. I am done with arguing with disrespectful people.
I think I am pretty reasonable.  Thanks for answering the questions, Nadir.