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Montrose said:
Catholic Answers as a great Catholic reference site.
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It is. Especially the School of Apologetics courses. They are not free but well worth the various prices imo. I took two of them…Evidence For Catholic Moral Teaching (Trent Horn) and Making Sense of the Inquisition (Christopher Check), both excellent.
 
po18guy said:
A message from the President of Catholic Answers

Dear Members and Patrons of the Catholic Answers Forums,

On Thursday December 31 at 5pm PT, Catholic Answers will close the Catholic Answers Forums (CAF). I have made the decision to close the CAF after lengthy consultation with the Catholic Answers executive committee and board of trustees.

Because Catholic Answers has limited resources, we are always evaluating our programs to determine if they provide a good return on investment. I understand that the word “good” is interpreted subjectively. Opinions about the merits of the CAF range more widely than those concerning any of our other works. Some find them helpful, others contentious, others find them addictive, and still others find some of the content not suited to an apologetics apostolate and some of the content better suited to private spiritual direction and sacramental confession.

When we add to the inconclusive value of the forums, the significant cost in financial resources and personnel time to host, operate, and to what degree we can, govern them, Catholic Answers can no longer justify the effort. Our attempt to draw even a tenth of what they cost to operate through patronage was not successful. Some regular users of the Forums welcomed user fees. The vast majority wished to make use of the Forums for free. For our part, we need to make the best use we can of the gifts that donors to Catholic Answers give us to spread the Catholic Faith.

Recurring Patron donations will be discontinued on December 31. If you would like to continue supporting the work of Catholic Answers, you can donate here .

Thank you all for your support over the years and God bless.

Christopher Check
President, Catholic Answers
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This be the justice of God.
 
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How I’m going to feel every day for the rest of the year coming here:

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Oh, now you’re triggering my memories of high school Communion services in the chapel before class a couple days a week. There’d be about six of us there including a couple of nuns, and half the time someone would be playing a Kansas song on a portable record player for us to meditate on post-Communion. “Dust in the Wind” was in heavy chapel rotation.
 
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I joined CAF in 2006 when I was just returning to the Church after a 27 year absence. This is where I had my first conversations with other Catholics and I learned so much about the faith. I’m going to miss this group very much.
 
Jen7 said:
Facebook, Twitter, etc. I have zero interest using those meeting places to connect and share my heart. They don’t lend themselves to conversation anyway - just to self-expression.
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I use facebook regularly, but I think that’s a neat summation of their limitation - they don’t lead to conversation, but to self-expression. The plus side is that they assist us to keep in contact with relatives and friends, as they post their various personal “news”. However, while that was the original intent back in ~2007 over the years most of my “friends” have become people I’ve never met, and political “expression” has come to dominate over personal news.
 
Jen7 said:
I have to think money is not the whole reason this is happening. This is not the only forum shutting down. I feel we’re all being funneled to the Big Tech sites to talk where we can really be watched - Facebook, Twitter, etc. I have zero interest using those meeting places to connect and share my heart. They don’t lend themselves to conversation anyway - just to self-expression.
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And, NSA runs lexis/nexis searches watching for terrorist communications or excess Thanksgiving gatherings - that sort of stuff.

I am a member of the premier anti-social media site, but no one knows this.
 
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Cruciferi said:
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Again, one very big thing here, is whether the forum posts that have already been created, will always be there as a legacy reference resource, or whether they will go “poof” at the end of the year.
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CA Forums Shutting Down - #21 by Jon_Sorensen

Spread the word…
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This is annoying. There is a lot of useful information in the forums, and a complete removal loses all of it.

Would it really be particularly expensive to keep them available in read-only form? I don’t know anything about costs of webhosting but I have to imagine it would cut down the cost significantly.
 
LilyM said:
RIP the Mudgies!
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:cry: And adieu and “thankyou” to our founder, Scott Lafrance, and to the numerous Mudgies who have contributed (with their individual styles!) and left for various reasons. (Except for Tomyris 😠).

Once a Mudgie, always a Mudgie!
LilyM said:
Proud curmudgeon here since about 2005 (I think I joined shortly after St JP2 passed away).
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Right… Just a whippersnapper then… 😠:roll_eyes:

The current crew are having a private little thread where we are discussing our future. Anyone who may be interested please feel free to ask for an invitation.
 
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I’ve been here since 2011 and I still don’t understand the curmudgeons. Is it impolite to ask?
 
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I recall how I stumbled in, in 2011, with the question “What’s a Mudgie?”, and no-one suggested it was impolite to ask. That was also the last time I got a serious answer to any question there. 😒

I describe it as:
Curmudgeons are noble souls who have been brought down, and brought together, by the intolerable faults of other people, and the general failure of life to meet their quite reasonable demands.
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We come together to vent. @christofirst has also made the questionable accusation: “In thousands of years of whining, they have never accomplished anything”.
 
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You cannot understand the curmudgeonary. It’s beyond mortal comprehension.
 
Peeps said:
Sadly, online forums are dinosaurs equivalent to rotary phones, record players, tape recorders, VHS, etc.
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Things I still have and occasionally use. Save the rotary phone. (Though I know HOW to use one)
 
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