All links below are to the Catholic Culture review of the website; you may have to register (I believe it's free) to see the review by Catholic Culture. I do not want to post an actual link to the website since that is to be avoided.
- 8th Day Center For Justice - promotes liberation theology
- Apologetic Catholic Page - a website that shows the "difference between Catholicism and Biblical teaching"
- Association for the Rights of Catholics In the Church - errors include saying that promoting women's ordination is not heresy
- Catholic Women's Ordination - promotes women's ordination
- Catholics for a Free Choice (CFFC) - promotes contraception and abortion
- Daily Catholic - apparently sedevacantist run, great disrespect for Pope Benedict XVI in some cases
- Dignity USA - undermines Catholic Church's teachings on homosexuality
- Future Church - promotes women's ordination
- Georgetown Center for Liturgy - disobedient with the Vatican on the Liturgy
- Jubilee 2000 Our Lady of the Roses - promotes a condemned apparition
- Help for Catholics - tries to lead Catholics away from the Church by using poor interpretation of Scripture
- Just for Catholics - created by Joe Mizzi, a fallen away Catholic and former seminarian, to lead Catholics away from the Church
- Leadership Conference of Women Religious - As Catholic Culture states: "The site is filled with antagonism toward the hierarchy and Church teachings, the emphasis on political activism in a secular humanist context, and feminist rhetoric."
- Mother Mary's Garden - has nothing to do with the Mother of God or real prayer. It is an occult site.
- National Catholic Reporter - better named the National Catholic Distorter.
- North American Forum on the Catechumenate - Founded by Rev. James Dunning, a dissenter who does not believe the Eucharist is Jesus. The prayer book has dissenting resources.
- Online Confession - claims to be able to give the Sacrament of penance over the Internet. This is not allowed at all by the Church! Such confessions are not truly sacraments meaning sins are not forgiven if a person "confesses" online.
- Pax Christi USA - Catholic Culture states: "They seem to care more about finding common ground with abortionists and the gay rights lobby than about working for true peace."
- Priests for Equality - promotes changing the Scriptures as well as women's ordination
- Roses from Heaven - promotes condemned Bayside New York "apparitions"
- The Aquinas Catholic Site - Sedevacantistism 101
- These Last Days Ministries - promotes condemned Bayside New York "apparitions"
- True Catholic - the website of a schismatic, sedevacantist group who believes the current pope is a man elected in Montana named Pius XIII
- We are Church - a dissenting group following the "spirit of Vatican II"
These are some of the many websites that I believe all faithful Catholics should avoid. If you would like to let me know about any others, please comment below in the comment box.
If you have any suggestions on others to add to this listing, please comment in the comment box below.
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Thank you Moneybags. We need to be directed to the truly Catholic sites. I always rely on Catholic Culture's reviews of these websites.
Thank you for this post. As someone very new to the Catholic faith, its good to know what to look out for so we don't get pulled down the wrong path.
Blessings,
Kristin
I'm glad this has helped you. Welcome to the Church! I'm glad this helped you.
Good post!
. . .I'm glad I'm not on it! :-)
Of course not, I enjoy your site :)
Before removing links to these websites, please reflect on Luke 6:37
Herb, I'm not juding their salvation. I'm judging the quality of their websites, which I, and many others think, is poor. Look at some of those websites. Do you really want links to schismatic websites on your site?
The first word in your title clearly shows that you are judging. It is up to you to determine whether you are judging others works or their characters.
No, I don't want to link to schismatic (that is your word) websites, unless I happen to be posting about them. However, I have no such links. My interest is far from them. My own view is that most Catholics (and most people for that matter) serve others and influence the world more through their jobs than they do in church activities. Therefore, I tend to blog about workplace spirituality and stay away from all the liturgical and other church controversies.
I am not judging the people that put those websites together. I don't know them, and I certainly can't judge anyone's eternal salvation like that scripture verse refers to.
I am merely judging the content of the websites, which is very anti-Catholic at times. A faithful Catholic shouldn't link to any of them. Of course, I blog very highly on liturgical affairs.
moneybags thanks for this post.
Herb, let me get this straight.. You're judging moneybags for judging others?
I suggest you try reading an early Church father or two. The early fathers of the Catholic Church repeatedly and very harshly condemned those who taught heresy and continuously did what you deem as "judging". In fact, if you look at the strong verbage used by saint Jerome (against Helvidius for exmaple) or the words of St. Athanasius against the heretics of his day, or of St. Ignatius etc...Moneybags' will start looking like he's being too soft on these guys! St. Nicholas punched a heretic in the face!!
It would also help to read the early Church fathers and their interpretation of Christ's words in Luke. It is the Church's interpretation not our own which is important.
It's ironic that you would list Catholic sites that you think are bad while listing Protestant sites under you links. I refer particularly to the Christian Classic Ethereal Library which is run by a Protestant Reformed college/university which wouldn't even consider you Christian unless you gave up your Catholic faith.
Is there a criteria for Catholics but none for Protestants?
I did not know that the Christian Classic Ethereal Library was Protestant. I must have overlooked that fact when adding the site to the sidebar.
Thank you. I have removed the link.
Yikes! Don't remove CCEL! That's one of the best online resources for the Church Fathers, and that's worth pointing out to people regardless of who hosts the web server.
Surfing a Protestant-owned web server won't give you cooties, I promise. And CCEL is worlds apart from these other sites mentioned, such as "Just for Catholics" - those sites appear to be purposefully posing as Catholic web sites, with the intent of drawing Catholic readers in deceitfully.
Look, even St. Thomas Aquinas quoted from Aristotle and Rabbi Maimonides in his writings - it didn't mean that he agreed with everything they believed.
Thank you, I just wish that list could be seen by everyone, Some of those site, or so well designed to pull you away slowly from God slowly without realizing it , it’s so sad.
I think it was a good idea to pull CCEL. I am in no way a theologian or even a Biblical scholar - there is much I don't know. I think it best for those like me to stay away from anywhere there is a chance of getting 'wrong' or incorrect info. Anyone who is researching the Church Fathers probably would be able to find CCEL on their own and discern what is okay and what is not.
Greetings in St. Jerome!
The wonders of the Catholic Treasures of Faith and Wisdom is plentiful even in a godless and sinful world. Today, more than ever, all men must seek ever more deeply to understand that Jesus Christ is Lord and Truth. For if man sincerely seeks what has been handed to him from a principle foundation of hallowed reason and invincible faith, it will necessarily follow that he will find what he is seeking by following that same path of truth.
No wonder in an age of moral decay and even outright indifference for holy things, is there still a ray of hope in the Catholic Catholic. For Jesus Christ who is the True Light made the ultimate sacrifice to His Father to make His promise of perpetual saving graces available to mankind a matter of fact. St. Jerome, a great Doctor of the Catholic Church, made great steps in that path of truth and was chosen by God to help codify the inspired and approved texts of Sacred Scripture into a single book that became known as the Sacred Bible. This book became a source of spiritual growth, theological study, and legal practice in a world really no different from our own. Rightly, did St. Jerome bellow at the world of his own time that "Ignorance of the Scriptures is Ignorance of Christ" (Ignoratio enim Scripturarum ignoratio Christi est), because it is only through the quest of truth will someone attain the true love of truth which will crown them with the gift of wisdom.
The good news from St. Jerome's Cave is that there is good plenty of Rare and Hard to Find Traditional Catholic Books available for those on this quest for truth and who will love these books to show the Pastor their goodness of wheat. Here is sample of a few of the great works of Christ's Church available to obtain:
Pontificale Romanum
Missale Romanum
Epistolae et Evangelia Totius Anni.
Evangelarium
Canon Missae ad usum Episcoporum
Mansi's Sacrorum Conciliorum Nova et Amplissima Collectio
Migne's Patrologiae Cursus Completus
Denzinger's Enchiridion symbolorum, definitionum et declarationum de rebus fidei et morum
Jerome's Biblia Vulgata Latina
Rare Pre-Vatican II Gregorian Chant and Sacred Polyphony
Rare Video of Popes Saint Pius X , Pius XI, Pius XII
Rare Video of a traditional Latin Solemn High Mass
And...so much more!
Please visit St. Jerome's Cave and have a look at the great treasures that he and all true Catholic scholars brought together for the Greater Glory of God, the edification of the Christian People, and the salvation of souls:
http://www.geocities.com/stjeromescave
In the Holy Lion,
A Catholic Caveman of St. Jerome
You also have Fish Eaters listed as a good Catholic link. This group claims that the SSPX is not in schism; and that there are absolutely no obstacles to attending SSPX Masses or going to an SSPX priest for confession.
Your zeal for the old form of the Mass has blurred your judgement and disabled your obedience to the magisterium.
Anonymous,
SSPX is a perfectly legitimate option. Please do read the Canon Law on the issue, and understand the situation from a legal point of view.
Thank you.
Please, in charity and in prayer, read questions 11 & 12:
SSPX FAQ
Remember, "So then, you will know them by their fruits" (Matthew 7:20 ). And what fruits do we see? We see reverence, faith, charity, prayer, etc. Have you ever attended an SSPX chapel before? Please consider it.
If they are perfectly legitimate, why would this be necessary?
http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=59284
Is the Holy Father in teh habit of trying to bring factions that are already in full communion back into full communion?
They may be in an irregular status, but that does not mean that they are in schism/excommunicated. I choose to go to Canon Law rather than news stories, which are not always completely accurate. This issue is a very complex one.
LONG LIVE POPE BENEDICT
http://www.space.net.au/~nethow/Sede/wojtylakoran.html
QUOTE FROM HERETICAL AND SEDEVACANIST WEBSITE (LINK ABOVE) "THE AQUINAS WEBSITE":
"Karol Wojtyla kisses the Koran
Karol Wojtyla kisses the Koran, demonstrating his love for blasphemy, his hatred of God, and his apostasy from the true faith, if he ever held it to begin with. Those who maintain that Wojtyla is pope argue that he does things like this in ignorance. A seven-year-old Catholic knows better. But Wojtyla is not a Catholic.
According to this blasphemous book, Our Lord did not die on the Cross, He did not will to die on the Cross, and was not born to die on the Cross. This book of lies asserts that the death of Our Lord Jesus Christ on the Cross was a lie made popular by deception, and that on Judgement Day Our Lord Himself will be a witness against Christians.
Koran, 4:156-159 "That they rejected Faith; That they uttered against Mary a grave false charge; That they said (in boast): We killed Christ Jesus the son of Mary, The Messenger of Allah. But they killed him not, nor crucified him, but so it was made to appear to them, and those who differ therein are full of doubts, with no (certain) knowledge, but only conjunction to follow, for of a surety they killed him not. ... And on the Day of Judgment He (Jesus) will be a witness against them (Christians)."
St. Paul, 1 Corinthians, Chapter 1, Verses 23, 24: "But we preach Christ crucified: unto the Jews indeed a stumbling block, and unto the Gentiles foolishness. But unto them that are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ, the power of God and the wisdom of God."
St. Paul, 1 Corinthians, Chapter 2, Verse 2: "For I judged not myself to know anything among you, but Jesus Christ: and Him crucified."
I am not sedevacanist, but I'm just not sure what to make of this.
LONG LIVE POPE B16
Matthew, in regards to the SSPX, I think you shoudl read this post: http://wdtprs.com/blog/2008/07/guest-contribution-qa-with-the-pont-comm-ecclesia-dei-about-sspx-schism-and-sacraments/
Contrary to what is stated above, I am not a former Seminarian. I attended minor Seminary (or secondary school) in Gozo, Malta, up to the age of 15. It is roughly equivalent to junior high school in the US.
Joseph Mizzi
Just for Catholics
You might also want to add the site "We the People'',formerly known as ''The Cafeteria Is Closed'',run and founded by one Gerald Naus, nee' ''Augustinus''.
Due to the fact that myself and other staunch Catholics basically drove him underground because of his ultra-leftist and sodomite support stance,he has made his site a members-only venue.
I'm the poster Dominic,that refused to allow him to weasel out of his open and public statements of heresy.
I have for a few months wondered what occurred to Gerald's blog. How disheartening to read of his collapse from the True Faith.
Basically what happened is that myself and a few others that blogged there got a whiff of the heresy he was brewing,and we drove him underground with it.
Now he has his ''private'' blog.and he's welcome to it.
however he continues to post on many other blogs with his unique type of heretical viewpoints and snide commentary on sacred topics.
I intend to hound him at every turn.
I will drive him off the net if necessary.
Dominic.
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Thank you for this list. I just typed in 'Catholic Web Sites' in my search and read yours first. Now I will investigate the others. I appreciate the 'heads up'. I am true to my faith and I want to remain so. God Bless Your Work.
Just a recap here all.
# ore sites that you might want to put on HASMAT gear for before entering.
Vox Nova.
American Papist.
Roman Catholic Blog.
I've been to all 3 lately,and you are now getting a lot of the same spiritual lowlifes popping up to heckle and confront.
I've seen Gerald's signature at Papist and Vox.
Seems like theyre out to corrupt as many blogs as they can.
Start putting a vote out to ban and block them.
Sodomite enablers.....
Dominic.
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Dominic, I do not link to any of those mentioned sites. I was unaware that some view them as bad Catholic sites. What have some of these authors specifically said so that I might inform others who are interested.
Matthew, I cannot vouch for the other two blogs but I have been reading the American Papist blog for quite some time and have not seen him try to do anything but support the pope and lead people towards the Catholic faith. I have not yet run across a post that is against the teachings of the Church. He is also highly recommended by two blogs that are listed on your site, the Curt Jester and the Practicing Catholic. Hope that helps!
-Elizabeth
American Papist posts photos of The Holy Father and other clergy with irreverent,disrespectful captions underneath them,supposedly as humor.
I don't see it as in any way funny.
You are to respect these men,their office;not use them to crack wise.
It's known as mockery.
Plus the very fact that they even allow Gerald Augustinus to post there is an indication of their laxity.They allow this heretic a forum to spew his venomous attitudes.
That to me is enough to convict them.
So pardon me if I'm not liberal enough to post an opinion here or anywhere else.
I'm not a liberal,a leftist,or a social engineer.
I'm a CATHOLIC,plain and simple,and I do not cater to or enable heretics apostates or anyone else that goes against Magisterial Teachings,or against Holy Mother Church like some of these individual do every time they decide to vent their spleens.
Especially Gerald the Heretic.
Dominic.
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The mere fact that these sites allow anyone who has a contrary view to Ctholic Teaching to post ,as well as practicing Catholics themselves,belies a liberal attitude that is frankly sickening.Any degenerate that wants to can post,confront a Believer with some kind of spiritual trash,and be allowed to continue posting their liberalism,leftism,and sexual libertinism.
Only people that are in fact Catholics should be allowed to post on what are supposed to be sites for the discusson of the Faith.
Weed out the human trash that want to come in and cause trouble.
Dominic.
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I notice that any website that makes any reference to any form of Catholic Social Teaching gets a yellow or red rating from Catholic Culture. Why should a good Catholic reject Catholic Social Teaching? How do you reconcile this with Matthew 25?
How can anyone reconcile self-reference as a Catholic with suggesting that there are such things as "human trash?"
What is the role of Jesus in such Catholicism?
Great list! I like the idea and the contents.
Thank you!
Thanks! My mom and I are new catholics, it's good to know what to watch for.
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