Priests and pastors on CAF

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Repetitive, true. But one can choose not to post in those threads. I myself am tired of the denigrating comments towards those who veil, even though i myself don’t veil. The general attitude is negative towards trads. Then for those people, don’t post or hang out in the Trad subforum, for goodness sake, if you’re just gonna put them down.

I am just taking the words of other posters. Since they say these members are priests, then ok.
 
It wasn’t dissent. It was a case where the priest was clearly correct, had a source, and the other person was being extremely disrespectful as well as clearly wrong.
I’m about the last person to suppress dissenting opinion in the Church, but if somebody said “The catechism allows fornication” and the priest said “It does not” and cited a section and the other person told him off, that’s not “dissent”. It’s being rude. Period. Final.
 
Again, I think it’s a difference in experience here. I don’t see criticism of those who chose to veil, but I see plenty of posters who do veil make blanket statements about it being more holy, pious, Catholic, etc… They don’t phrase it as it being their own personal choice, but rather has how they think all should conduct themselves.

And I don’t think the Traditional subform was created initially for those who considrer themselves "traditional " Catholics. I think there was just a discussion on this. If I can find it, I’ll link it.
 
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DeniseNY said:
Again, I think it’s a difference in experience here. I don’t see criticism of those who chose to veil, but I see plenty of posters who do veil make blanket statements about it being more holy, pious, Catholic, etc… They don’t phrase it as it being their own personal choice, but rather has how they think all should conduct themselves.
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Yes, that’s what I see. I’m pretty sure this was what Rose was referring to in her post, @fin.
 
Yes, and also calling those who love the Extraordinary Form “Efers.” Might as well just call us the other form of that term, that begins with the letter “M.”
 
Well there is also calling the Ordinary Form NO. No has a meaning in English. I wish if people wanted to say Novus Ordo they would spell it out.
 
The. disagreeing with reason, while avoiding subjective pejorative adjectives like “jerk” is probably a better and more charitable expression of your angst…you can catch more flies with honey than vinegar, is all I’m saying. Once we turn people off, the discussion and chance for reasoned consensus is forever lost.
 
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I see the opposite though. Women here who expressed veiling or wanting to never said they are holier than thou, or that unveiled women aren’t holy, not one post. However, I have read of women who say that veiled women think they are holier than thou. That’s the concern.
 
The thread digresses. The topic is priests and pastors on CAF.

By the way, why is it posted in the Popular Media forum? Which other forum might be more suitable?
 
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I don’t see why eastern rite catholics should not want to be here. Is this what u mean? Why?
 
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Absolutely.
If it’s not grave matter, live and let live.
 
Priests are usually vetted pretty well. When a new “priest” posts, I generally notify the mods to keep them informed. So far, they seem to have kept the title clean.

Having said that priests posting on the fora in its present state have got to be very very corageous.
 
Lou2U said:
Does Don Ruggero still post here, or did he finally have enough? I find the attitude of some other posters here shocking and plain disrespectful. I would never speak to a Priest that way and I’m not religious at all.
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While I agree and miss seeing Don Ruggero around these parts, I’ve also witnessed uncharitable responses from clergy on CAF that really shocked me. Perhaps it’s the online environment that can get to even those in religious life? There is certainly a unique skill set in communicating around here.
 
I think animosity toward Traditionalists by liberals is much more prevalent. Funny how you hear about disrespecting priests and those same go on and disrespect Traditional priests lol.
 
Whatever. I believe in calling a spade a spade. At a certain point, a jerk is a jerk and it does no good to try to dress extremely poor behavior from an adult up in a nice word for the sake of “charity”.
And if someone is “turned off “ by my saying that, then the person getting “turned off” is likely the exact sort of person we don’t want and don’t need on this forum because they create drama and havoc instead of civilized discussion.

I’m tired of being nicey-nice about this. It’s a real problem and everybody can see it.
 
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I am wondering if this shouldn’t be a lesson to those of us that thought coming here and participating would be edifying to our faith journeys
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You can say that again!!! And it’s addicting, so the damage is exponential. There are some bright spots. The search function is great for finding interesting little nuggets of information.
 
Sorry, again. Different perspective. I have seen posts like that. Not only by women who veil, but a lot of men who think that every woman should veil and those that don’t aren’t serious about their faith.
 
It’s funny why we seem to feel the need to divide and square off with each other. Is it because we have the need to claim superiority over another? I am not trying to be snarky, I just don’t know. Really in the end, by and large, our graves will all be roughly the same size and filled with the same stuff. Are the differences really that important?
 
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Depends on the differences. If salvation is involved diferences are pretty important. Unless, of course, you believe everyone is going to heaven.
 
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