It came to my attention that we needed a new sub-forum.

One symptom of "We need a new sub-forum" is finding a whole bunch of threads about a particular topic in a group like "General Discussion".

Since General Discussion should be MOSTLY ...well, general discussion... I decided we needed a new sub-forum to keep this message board well-organized.

I'm sure many of you will notice the topic of this sub-forum, and might have questions/concerns. I wanted to address those concerns here.

First, I'm not making any new rules. You can discuss whatever you want, and I'm not going to move every thread in here that "goes sedevacantist" like other fora have done in the past. (Remember the Indult vs. SSPX sub-forum?) Topics like the Papacy (and the occupancy thereof) can be far-reaching and touch on many other issues -- which makes the topic come up a LOT under many different circuмstances. It can be annoying to add to a topic, and then discover later on that you "tainted" the subject and got it moved to the "controversy jail" as it were.

So I won't be doing that.

I just want Sedevacantist discussion to have its own area, for four main reasons:

A) A good message board should be well organized so that topics of interest are easy to find.

B) Those who participate in discussions on this topic will be able to find topics of interest much more easily -- they will be all in one place, with no "General Discussion" posts to clutter it up.

C) Some readers, frankly, are not interested in (or positively dislike) all discussion of Sedevacantism. That is their choice.

D) If the main forum of Cathinfo -- General Discussion -- is filled with mostly posts Sedevacantist in nature, it might lead new visitors to think that this is a Sedevacantist message board. Now that would be misleading, since that is not the case.

Cathinfo is a message board for all Traditional Catholics, particularly those serious about their Faith.

In Christ,

Matthew