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.