Hello, I am Betsy, in my early 50’s and mother of 7. Unfortunately, my husband cares nothing about going to church or spiritual things.

I am a convert to the novus ordo, then because RCIA was so bad, a Protestant for about two years then back to the NO until I found Tradition in 2004. I currently have no church home after moving across the state of Washington.

I have been reading here doe a few years.

Hi Betsy
I just noticed your post. I live in Washington state too. There is a shortage of places to attend Mass, for sure. I hope to see you post more here. My husband also does not care for going to church or spiritual things. A difficult thing to bear. 

I agree.  COVID 19 does not fit under General Discussion (which has no "New Post" button),
nor does it fit under "Catholics living in the Modern world",
nor does it fit under "Health and Nutrition",
nor does it fit under "SSPX Resistance".
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It might fit under a new category, "Medical Tyranny".

Is it good enough to make the request here?

Well, hey-ell!   I had considered the length of my draft reply, and the fact that I  am completely lacking authority in CathInfo, plus your status as a newbie, and the sensible reply by ‘JayneK’.  So I started to draft a brief intro for sending this message to you via C.I.'s private-message feature, instead of posting it in any C.I. subforum.  Then as I was about to send it, you replied with this rationalization:

The reason is because COVID-19 and the lockdown is a TIME-SENSITIVE issue that if not taken care of REALLY soon, will be a disaster of no-return for the nation. [....] We have a chance now, but we need to group better and have some plans. That cannot be effectively done mixing it with all those other issues.

Sez the newbie?  Uh, huh.  So in replying to that also, my posting grew to even greater length.  More importantly for you, your latest reply could be interpreted as willful rejection of rules recently restated by Matthew about how he insists that C.I. members use his Web site [†] [‡].  Calling them "terms of service" might not be too much of a stretch.  "Mixing it" is a fundamental characteristic of nearly any Internet forum, and before that, nearly any dial-up bulletin boards.

So I've redecided to post my draft reply here, where none of this discussion belongs.

I didn't see any button to open a new post [...]

That's completely correct: There isn't one.  It's absent because so many CathInfo members were cluttering the "General Discussion" subforum with topics that, to a logically thinking person like Matthew, obviously didn't belong there.  But they were an adequate fit to at least 1 of the subforums he's created over the years.  So it seems that he finally hit the limit of his congenial tolerance.  I'm completely sympathetic to that, because I  was increasingly & repeatedly wasting lots of time trying to find postings I'd read long enough ago to forget where they were posted, because they were posted in what was obviously a wrong subforum.  Matthew specifically mentioned member "laziness" in the title of his topic.  The result was very similar to what we'd likely see if members just created their new topics in whatever subforum they read last in their previous browsing session.  I thought that Matthew was being quite charitable in writing "it's not rocket science", because I'd begun to doubt whether certain frequently offending members were suffering, um, persistent mental difficulties.  Be that as it may, Matthew shut off creation of new topics in the "General Discussion".

You needn't take my word for it: Not only because I  am completely lacking authority in CathInfo, but also because Matthew posted his own explanation less than 2 months ago, and it still appears on the 1st page of topics listed under "General Discussion".  I guess he thought that its newsworthiness to C.I. members could not have been any more obvious: "General Discussion closed to new topics, due to laziness and abuse" [†].  In it, he mentioned "COVID" twice.  As he also did in a closely related topic: "PLEASE RESPECT the sub-forums! Not everything goes in General!", esp. his addendum less than a day later [‡].  Yes, I am strongly recommending that you read them both real soon, where now would not be too soon.

[...] so I am posting here.
Can we have a new sub-forum created dedicated to COVID-19?  Looks like this is going to be a major topic for quite some time.

Ah!  So you didn't rummage around for an appropriate COVID-19 topic in some other subforum, and instead indulged yourself in the same kind of laziness for which Matthew had already hit his limit.  What a clever way for a newbie with fewer than 30 posts to get the attention of the CathInfo owner-operator-moderator himself!  In particular, "Introduce yourself" is quite obviously not a place for replies whose sole purpose is to request organizational changes to CathInfo's software, e.g., that Matthew create a new subforum.  I have no special knowledge of Matthew's browsing habits, but it seems to me that posting it in that long-stretched topic is an excellent way to post it where he's unlikely to ever see it.  What you should do instead in such circuмstances is send a private-message to him.  Perhaps you don't realize that you can still do that, even after this newbie faux pas.  Or if that's too confusing, then at least post your request in whichever CoVID-19-titled topic has sprawled over the most pages, which is also where many other members will see it, and likely discuss it.  Because CathInfo is a service implemented as computer software physically hosted by Matthew, he might have considered the "Computers and Technology" subforum not to be an intolerably bad choice.

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Note †: April 02, 2020, 19:49:09: <https://www.cathinfo.com/general-discussion/general-discussion-closed-to-new-topics-due-to-laziness-and-abuse/>.

Note ‡: April 03, 2020, 15:05:18: <https://www.cathinfo.com/general-discussion/please-respect-the-sub-forums!-not-everything-goes-in-general!/msg693657/#msg693657>.

That is one of the most annoying, verbose, pedantic posts I have ever seen.

Personally I like his style, but de gustibus non est disputandum. Whether you liked the style or not, you should pay attention to the content. AlligatorDicax has been on this forum a long time and has a very good idea of how it functions.

Hello,

I am the Father of a growing traditional Catholic family. My wife and I have been lurking here for a couple of years and I finally made an account. We attend Our Lady of Sorrows in Phoenix, AZ.

I look forward to contributing. God bless you all! 

Hello,

I was Baptized Catholic as an infant, but never Catechized. My parents divorced and my father, who raised me, was raised Presbyterian, though he never attended church. Unfortunately, despite my mother’s insistence that my siblings and I be baptized Catholic, she was never more than a “Chreaster” at best when I was younger, and a heretic and blasphemer as I grew up. Needless to say, I strayed from the Church and committed many of the same sins as my mother from my teens until a couple years ago (I’m 37 now). Thankfully, I was gifted with more intelligence than her and never committed the more serious of her sins, namely divorce (never married) or abortion/murder (never pregnant), but I did participate in the Satanic/occult, and mock our Lord, which perhaps is even worse?

After I reached the bottom of my own limit for sin and depravity, I became severely depressed. Eventually the cognitive dissonance and pain I was experiencing drew me to various conservative e-celebs, breaking my “NPC” brainwashing. This transitioned to reading “politically incorrect” material, particularly on Image Boards, then to the JQ and the realization my entire childhood I had been the victim of demonic forces/people who made me believe my entire history and ethnic identity as descendent of German immigrants was evil.

I was recently confirmed through a parish in Oregon with the TLM and knew from my research that the NO Mass would not help me heal from my former life as a brainwashed Marxist Millennial: I had read Marx and Engels and realized the evils I formerly espoused, had woken up to reality of the JQ, and saw the same type of evils in the NO mass. Thankfully, I was able to attend the TLM every Sunday before the Covid closure happened, which helped my faith, especially given how much the RCIA program I was in was hindering it. Though, to be fair there were a couple elders there who attended TLM, who supported me when I brought up TLM, the Catechism of the Council of Trent (which I was reading during the closure and the absence of RCIA), elders who knew life before NO. However, my sponsor was a Protestant convert who I could not speak to about TLM, nor could she offer much advice when I asked questions about the contradictions I was seeing between RCIA teaching and what I was reading in the Summae or other docuмents from Church Doctors.

So, that has lead me here, because I’d like to learn how to be a faithful Catholic. I thought that I could learn from another Catholic forum, but I was quickly banned for comments I made. I’ll be lurking and learning from past posters, and try to limit the amount of annoying newbie questions.

Welcome Arssacra! I second Stubborn here. Newbie questions are never annoying, so go for it! I am a newbie with regard to some of your jargon and abbreviations. What is NPC and JQ?

You have your mother to thank for her insistence on Baptism, for the Grace imparted in your infancy has "kicked in" in your lowest point and taken you to this point in time when you can embrace the embryonic faith that has been dormant in you. May it blossom and bear fruit in due season. God bless you.

Does anyone have the name of a Traditional Catholic Priest to say mass and hear confessions in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.  Thanks