In all honesty I’d never read that section before. I mostly read the sections on the traditional liturgical year, which are not controversial. Parts of the section quoted here made me a little sick, too.
The difference is in the “who” that is doing the posting, wouldn’t you think? This Introduction is a statement of faith by the Owner, not the participants. Clearly, the website is built on sand and infidelity to Church teaching.
Fair point, but this is news to me. The owner’s posts on the forum are very moderate and charitable, and that’s all I’ve known. I know little about the owner’s personal life and it’s not relevent to my experience there since I don’t take her for a teacher or superior or anything.
No comment. Talking about CAF moderators is off limits, as I have repeated learned the hard way.
Maybe I misread his post, but I don’t think he was trashing any CAF moderators.
LoyalViews, it looks good!! Let me know when it is up and running.
I think he meant trashing CAF moderators is off limits at Fisheaters. But that’s not true. Simply enter a search on google using any one of these terms, followed by site:fisheaters.com, and you’ll find pages of posts where the moderator allows trashing of both CAF, its moderators, and its members. It looks like this:
Well said, Smiter. I’m glad you saw the light. Amen.
How would an inquirer or a new Catholic, know which pages to :mark"?I’m not a traditionalist, but I think it would be more prudent if we just “mark” the problematic pages to be avoided, and not trash the whole site. Despite those problematic pages, I think FE has a lot of good in it, most especially the basic catechetical materials. Just avoid the polemics.
Furthermore, if we love being in CAF, then we should not reciprocate the “rant-against-CAF” threads in FE here. I don’t think it’s a good idea to pit both websites against each other.
Indeed. But I was talking about what’s going on in this thread. Already there are posts that seem to trash FE. For those of us who have been to FE, we can inform an inquiring or new Catholic what pages or opinions to avoid. I just can’t see the point trashing the whole site. Like a gold nugget, maybe we can wash away first the dirt to see its real value. We don’t want to be rejected as a person because we have imperfections, don’t we?
How will you know when someone innocently visits their web site and comes away with wrong and harmful ideas about the Church? Should there be a link at their site directing all visitors to ask you about anything they might have questions about? The CatholicCulture.org website has the best solution to these subterfuge “catholic” sites: flag them as dangerous to the faith, list the reasons pro and con, give examples, and let people make their own decisions.Indeed. But I was talking about what’s going on in this thread. Already there are posts that seem to trash FE. For those of us who have been to FE, we can inform an inquiring or new Catholic what pages or opinions to avoid. I just can’t see the point trashing the whole site. Like a gold nugget, maybe we can wash away first the dirt to see its real value. We don’t want to be rejected as a person because we have imperfections, don’t we?
Again, I’m talking about what’s going on in this thread: the total trashing of FE. IN THIS THREAD we just need to point out the erroneous information, not bash the whole site. This thread has apparently become “bash-the-FE-website.” See what CatholicCulture.org did: they listed the pros and cons, not trash the website wholesale.
I meant that discussing CAF moderators is off limits here on CAF, hence I won’t reply to that publicly. PM me if you want to know what I meant.
You’re the pot calling the kettle black, brother.
Ok, it seems that Lomar read your post correctly. I thought you were speaking about a FE moderator. You must have had tongue-in-cheek with regard to CAF moderation and refrained from expressing it. No pm’s – I don’t want to listen to anything that can’t be said publicly.Sirach2:
No comment. Talking about CAF moderators is off limits, as I have repeated learned the hard way.
I don’t care what you say on the Internet, but if you insist on making personal attacks on the owner of Fish Eaters instead of sticking to doctrinal objections I’m going to call you a hypocrite.Dear Rich C,
This morning’s news reported the sentencing of 7 officials who failed to warn about the Italian earthquake. If you want to maintain that keeping quiet in the face of danger and failing to warn the sheep about FE is a good thing, then I have no qualms in conscience about being called a “pot.”
I’m not talking about gossip and character assasinations, at least. Its just that not everything that’s true is allowed to be discussed on CAF. It’s a business and it has the right to restrict its forums as it sees fit.
I try to use the same username everywhere since I have nothing to hide (“Richard C” was already in use here). I have had legitmate disagreements with the way CAF is run and have openly discussed that elsewhere on the Internet but I try not to discuss it here as it is not allowed. I will defend the right of the members of FE to say what they want about CAF if they say it in charity.