[ascanio1]

Hello,

More mundane questions (*) were not answered here and I was wondering if anyone could, please, point me to other Forums, for Traditional Catholics, where members are less focused on sophisms, learned, eridite, scholarly, important and critical aspects of our faith and more mundane matters as books, studies, passtimes, etc.

Thank you in advance,

Tommaso

(*) differences between missals, bibles, children's books, etc.

[forlorn]

Catholic Answers is a useless site for theology, and it's NO, but probably good for stuff like this. 

[ascanio1]

Catholic Answers is a useless site for theology, and it's NO, but probably good for stuff like this.

Thank you forlon, but I seek only orthodox (*) websites as I seek advise with books, videos, etc, that I would like to be aligned with the correct Church.
(*) as in correct Catholic

[Maria Regina]

Catholic Answers is a useless site for theology, and it's NO, but probably good for stuff like this.

Catholic Answers is quick to ban anyone who questions Francis as to his heterodoxy.
Most likely, many here who joined CA are now banned from that site.

Cath Info has quite a selection of forums here, including humor, for those who tire of the intellectual and theological discussions.

[ascanio1]

Catholic Answers is quick to ban anyone who questions Francis as to his heterodoxy.
Most likely, many here who joined CA are now banned from that site.

Cath Info has quite a selection of forums here, including humor, for those who tire of the intellectual and theological discussions.

Thank you Maria Regina, I appreciate this forum immensely and members, with varying degrees of understanding and varying perspectives, are offering me indispensable help with my struggles on my way back to Catholicism, after years of culpable intellectual indolence.

However, this community seems more interested in more important matters and, understandably, has less time for mundane questions. I feel awkward to re-post some questions here so I was hoping to find answers alsewhere.

I would google and research by myself but I am afraic that I might find communities that would lead me astray, again, advising me with a modernist perspective as I am still too incompetent to discern Catholics from modernists...

[Nadir]

I understand your concerns, Tommaso,  about the practical, down to earth issues. For example when looking to find recommendations for children's books you could use the Search for homeschooling, and you may find your needs answered there. E.G. https://www.cathinfo.com/catholic-living-in-the-modern-world/homeschooling-recommended-reading-list/msg666056/#msg666056

The WOMEN'S section, which will not be available to you as a man, also has many practical real life problems discussed. Would it be feasible to encourage your wife to sign up and she could be part of those discussions? Just a thought!

I couldn't recommend any other forum.

[ascanio1]

I understand your concerns, Tommaso,  about the practical, down to earth issues. For example when looking to find recommendations for children's books you could use the Search for homeschooling, and you may find your needs answered there. E.G. https://www.cathinfo.com/catholic-living-in-the-modern-world/homeschooling-recommended-reading-list/msg666056/#msg666056

The WOMEN'S section, which will not be available to you as a man, also has many practical real life problems discussed. Would it be feasible to encourage your wife to sign up and she could be part of those discussions? Just a thought!

I couldn't recommend any other forum.

Thank you for the homeschooling thread that I appreciated. My wife is Orthodox and would not sign up to this community (it is a long story...).

[Tallinn Trad]

For Traditional Catholics there is really only this place and SuscipeDomine.com

Fisheaters.com is for conservative Catholics who don't mind queers and transsɛҳuąƖs jumping into the forums and disturbing the peace.

Other than that there are no forums for genuine Trads that I know of in the English Language.

I sometimes look at Reddit but I almost never post there.

Dr. Taylor Marshall runs a good YouTube site and he is becoming noticeably more of a hard core traditionalist as the weeks pass.  I like listening to his stuff.

[Matthew]

I wish I could have the quality and God-centered aspect of hard-core Trads, with the popularity, fun, and quantity of watered down Protestants and Novus Ordo Catholics.

Or how about a single guy wishing for a wife who is smart, beautiful (but doesn't know it -- she's not stuck up at all), has a perfect body, is a devout Catholic and a virgin. Oh, and she likes all kinds of "guy stuff": computers, guy-friendly movies, programming, electronics, cars, racing, camping/outdoors, fishing/hunting, guns, survivalism, beer brewing, etc. And she insists on doing all the housework.

My point?

You might as well wish for rainbow unicorns. They don't exist.

Or how about: I wish I had the top 5 smartest guys, only multiplied by 1000, so I had 5,000 geniuses instead! Imagine what I could do with a company like that!
The problem: again, they don't exist. The problem with an elite (and yes, we are an elite here -- an elite of those who love God and are faithful to Catholic Tradition. We are the remnant -- all by the grace of God, of course) is that they are inherently small in number.

If you want more people, you step down, and you end up with the crowd at Catholic Answers, etc.

Some things just don't exist.

Long story short, there ARE some good Trad Catholics not on CathInfo, but they aren't on any other forum. They are offline or aloof from forums.

[Matthew]

Seriously, I run into this problem all the time on a daily basis.

For example: how to get more people to attend my Resistance affiliated chapel?

Answer: The people I'm seeking don't exist. Everyone who doesn't come here for Mass is EITHER
A) non-Catholic
B) non-Trad
C) doesn't live close enough to attend
or
D) doesn't really care about Tradition; any "Latin Mass-esque" ceremony will do. But only for 1 hour on Sunday -- the rest of the week is for REAL, WORLDLY stuff. Can't do a bunch of driving either. That takes away from fun-time.

None of those groups can be added to the small remnant/elite group of Catholics who attend our chapel. 

I'm not saying we're not missing ANYONE, but we're not "missing" all that many.

[forlorn]

Thank you for the homeschooling thread that I appreciated. My wife is Orthodox and would not sign up to this community (it is a long story...).

I'd recommend the Dimonds' videos on Orthodoxy. They provide quite good refutations of the Orthodox position. Disclaimer: The Dimonds are sedevacantist but their videos refuting Orthodoxy are unrelated to that.

[Matto]

Long story short, there ARE some good Trad Catholics not on CathInfo, but they aren't on any other forum. They are offline or aloof from forums.

What are the other forums at the current moment? I don't know how many there are now. I post on Suscipe Domine which I think is supposed to be an SSPX forum but there are a lot of Ecclesia Dei members and some sedes, but the moderator seems to be absent and I think the forum has been overrun by non-Catholics and doubters and people with unusual opinions that would be thought to be heretics by many. At least that is how it seemed to me. But I think there are some good folk there. I like dellery over there, he seems like an interesting guy and he does not support the resistance.

Cathinfo is so much against the world that it seems insane to most people even many people who consider themselves traditional Catholics. The talk about female dress and modesty and worldly entertainment is one thing. I think the talk about Jєωs scares people away. And the extreme takes on politics. So does the geocentrism and flat earth talk. And the support of the resistance. Some are scared away by the Feeneyism and the sedevacantism as well. But I think Cathinfo is the best Catholic forum I know of.

Does anyone know if Servus Spiritus Sancti is still alive and faithful? Sometimes I think that all the forums are monitored and controlled and many of the members are fake accounts and all of our posts are monitored and sometimes (((people who run things from behind the curtain))) threaten members who get too far out of line and threaten to get them fired from their jobs or sued or harmed in some other way unless they shut up. But then I think they wouldn't bother because we are so small a minority to be insignificant and because even many traditional Catholics are really only servants of the enemy who prefer a pretty liturgy. Not to say that I am not a servant of the enemy, or that Matthew is not a servant of the enemy.

[ascanio1]

For Traditional Catholics there is really only this place and SuscipeDomine.com

Fisheaters.com is for conservative Catholics who don't mind queers and transsɛҳuąƖs jumping into the forums and disturbing the peace.

Other than that there are no forums for genuine Trads that I know of in the English Language.

I sometimes look at Reddit but I almost never post there.

Dr. Taylor Marshall runs a good YouTube site and he is becoming noticeably more of a hard core traditionalist as the weeks pass.  I like listening to his stuff.

Thank you for your recommendations. I watched a video of this Dr Taylor and he seems knowledgeable. Interesting opinions.

Thank you also for the other recommendatioons. I looked at a few and liked them.

As for the queers and transɛҳuąƖs jumping into a Catholic forum ... well, I consider them to be a very minor disruption, if compared to (self professed) Catholic members of my child's school, Opus Dei, forum, attacking me for lauding Italy's High Court's rule against honosɛҳuąƖs adopting children and for adding that we should all pray for "individuals with inverted sɛҳuąƖ behaviour that they may find a cure". Not to mention a forum's administrator adding that I was "sinning with pride and using the Bible as a club against love..."

[ascanio1]

I wish I could have the quality and God-centered aspect of hard-core Trads, with the popularity, fun, and quantity of watered down Protestants and Novus Ordo Catholics.

Or how about a single guy wishing for a wife who is smart, beautiful (but doesn't know it -- she's not stuck up at all), has a perfect body, is a devout Catholic and a virgin. Oh, and she likes all kinds of "guy stuff": computers, guy-friendly movies, programming, electronics, cars, racing, camping/outdoors, fishing/hunting, guns, survivalism, beer brewing, etc. And she insists on doing all the housework.

My point?

You might as well wish for rainbow unicorns. They don't exist.

Or how about: I wish I had the top 5 smartest guys, only multiplied by 1000, so I had 5,000 geniuses instead! Imagine what I could do with a company like that!
The problem: again, they don't exist. The problem with an elite (and yes, we are an elite here -- an elite of those who love God and are faithful to Catholic Tradition. We are the remnant -- all by the grace of God, of course) is that they are inherently small in number.

If you want more people, you step down, and you end up with the crowd at Catholic Answers, etc.

Some things just don't exist.

Long story short, there ARE some good Trad Catholics not on CathInfo, but they aren't on any other forum. They are offline or aloof from forums.

You are misinterpreting the motives behind this thread's request.I am not criticizing this forum but, rather, recognizing its value.

I post many generic questions on this forum and I understand that its members' time is limited therefore I choose to post only those concerns of importance or that require in depth knoledge and spare time on matters of lesser value.

I feel awkward if you interptreted my search for more mundane approaches as dissatisfaction with this community, because the opposite is true. I wish that I could express my gratitutde, tangibly, to all members (of all perspectives) who help me re-vert to Catholic religion from ... I don't know what to call it.

My challenges lie in (a) my inward struggle to overcome decades of convictions and (b) my outward struggle to provide cathcism to my daughter as the local SSPX priest cannot.

This forum is instrumental in the former (exactly because of its purity and scholarly approach that distances itself from mundanity) while I need to educate myself first to address the latter. Re-version to Catholicism (*), requires me to re-study the basics. And there is a lot to study. I therefore have hundreds of mundane questions that - rightly - cannot, and should not, be answered here.

Some concerns are very complex and are better addressed in their nuances with sofisticated replies, only possible by knowledgeable and scholarly proponenets. Other concerns are less complex and can be sufficiently well addressed by less qualified communities.

For example, I do not need a scholar to explain to me what is the difference between a St Joseph and other bibles. I do require a scholar to recommend me a good study Bible. Another example could be that I do not need this forum to explain how to attend 1962 liturgy while I cannot risk generic replies to questions pertaining doctrinal errors and differences between NO and 1962 liturgy.

Big guns for bigger, core conflicts and small peashooters for lesser, formal, conflicts.

I hope that this reply addresses yours and, please, do respond if you feel that more can be said concerning this matter as I am very receptive to advice and counsel in this difficult path that lays ahead of me.

(*) I use Catholicism and not "traditional" Catholicism as prefacing the word Catholicism with the word traditional, implies some form of non normality. Whlie Rome counts billion of Modern Catholics and true Catholics only count half a million, the latter are normal while the former are departures from the norm.

[ascanio1]

What are the other forums at the current moment? I don't know how many there are now. I post on Suscipe Domine which I think is supposed to be an SSPX forum but there are a lot of Ecclesia Dei members and some sedes, but the moderator seems to be absent and I think the forum has been overrun by non-Catholics and doubters and people with unusual opinions that would be thought to be heretics by many. At least that is how it seemed to me. But I think there are some good folk there. I like dellery over there, he seems like an interesting guy and he does not support the resistance.

Cathinfo is so much against the world that it seems insane to most people even many people who consider themselves traditional Catholics. The talk about female dress and modesty and worldly entertainment is one thing. I think the talk about Jєωs scares people away. And the extreme takes on politics. So does the geocentrism and flat earth talk. And the support of the resistance. Some are scared away by the Feeneyism and the sedevacantism as well. But I think Cathinfo is the best Catholic forum I know of.

Does anyone know if Servus Spiritus Sancti is still alive and faithful? Sometimes I think that all the forums are monitored and controlled and many of the members are fake accounts and all of our posts are monitored and sometimes (((people who run things from behind the curtain))) threaten members who get too far out of line and threaten to get them fired from their jobs or sued or harmed in some other way unless they shut up. But then I think they wouldn't bother because we are so small a minority to be insignificant and because even many traditional Catholics are really only servants of the enemy who prefer a pretty liturgy. Not to say that I am not a servant of the enemy, or that Matthew is not a servant of the enemy.

Thank you for posting this information.

I am seeking spot catechism, only on selected items. For examples, questions as "what are the conditions for a plenary absolution?".

I don't think that the websites that you cite can cause harm to a Catholic, even if they are populated by non Catholics or lesser educated catholics. I imagine that these websites can still offer better answers than Wikipedia:

• Piously reading or listening to Sacred Scripture for at least half an hour.^[14]
• Adoration of Jesus in the Eucharist for at least half an hour.^[14]
• The pious exercise of the Stations of the Cross.^[14]
• Recitation of the Rosary or the Akathist in a church or oratory, or in a family, a religious community, an association of the faithful and, in general, when several people come together for an honourable purpose.^[14]

I do agree with you re Cathinfo flavours when addressing Jєωs, geocentrism and similar matters but I appreciate challenging perspectives as I hope that my intellect and heart will distinguish which are true and which are not.

I have very close Jєωιѕн friends and I cannot bring myself to believe that the Sun revolves around the Earth but this did not stop me from reading and investigating this community's stances on these topics. I did not come out convinced but I did come our more informed.