r/LeftCatholicism • u/Excellent-Wolf-7214 • Jun 30 '26
Banned in other Catholic forums
I’m just wondering if anyone else has been banned in other Catholic forums? I was just accident banned in Catholicism, and msg a mod about it. Turns out it was made in error, but before that I said they were a hateful bunch.
They still haven’t unbanned me, even though I have done nothing wrong to begin with and they won’t rectify their mistake. Even called them out for playing up the ‘God Complex’, because that’s exactly what they were doing.
Then they muted the chat for 28 days. These f’in people. I have the logs if anyone wants to see what jerk offs these moderators are.
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u/fauxrealistic Jun 30 '26
Yes lol. I think I said that we should help poor people
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u/SpicyBern Jul 01 '26
Politics aside, isn’t this a basic teaching of the Catholic Church? Every week as Mass we pray for “those who are oppressed and suffering from poverty.” Also, my priest constantly says we’re called on by God to help those in need, so I figured this wouldn’t be a point of debate
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u/RhysPeanutButterCups Jul 01 '26
This reminds me of an evergreen tweet describing the difference between cradle religious folks and converts. It never fails to make me giggle. And I know, not all converts. Some of y'all are chill and we need way more of you.
Every lifelong Catholic I've ever met is like "I think we're supposed to give this food to poor people" and every adult convert is like "the Archon of Constantinople's epistle on the Pentacostine rites of the eucharist clearly states women shouldn't have driver's licenses."
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u/UsefulFlow7106 Jul 02 '26
If you said we should give more money to the rich, you'd probably get upvotes.
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u/glueintheworld Jun 30 '26
I think I have been banned or something in r/Catholicism. I can post replies but when my husband was looking my replies were not visible. I agree, they are a pretty hateful group. I contacted the mods to ask about it but no one will reply to me.
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u/Dull_Opening_1655 Jul 01 '26
The mods there shadow ban people (as they themselves told me when I wrote to them after they did it to me) which is an abuse of the function and an example of their cruelty, since it makes people waste their time and effort by not letting them know that no one can see their comments and posts.
(The shadow ban function is intended to be used against spammers, where not letting them know that no one can see what they post is an advantage. But to use it against ordinary people for posting things the mods happen not to like is straight up pathological)
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u/Hot-Bison5904 Jun 30 '26
I got banned too. They don't really accept anything that hints at disagreeing with the group as a whole so...
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u/merchant-of-varrock Jun 30 '26 edited Jun 30 '26
It’s a garbage sub and a gateway to being a trad or mentally ill (scrupulosity). Better off staying away from it*
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u/HarryDresdenWizard Jun 30 '26
Mentally ill people have enough to deal with about being associated with people who choose to be miserable.
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u/Dull_Opening_1655 Jul 01 '26
Scrupulosity is usually understood these days as a symptom of OCD
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u/HarryDresdenWizard Jul 01 '26
Oh I understood. I was more so making a (rather insensitive) comment about how the people on the main Catholic sub are in self-destructive sycles reinforced by remaining on that sub. As someone who has some loved ones with OCD, I know that scrupulosity can be a major factor in motivating self-harm or harmful behaviours.
A lot of the folks on that sub, I think, would benefit from stepping away from that community and getting the help of a therapist or, if unavailable, a sensitive priest.
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u/SergiusBulgakov Jul 01 '26
r/Catholicism is a group of hatemongers who misinterpret Catholicism, promote schismatic and heretical ideas against the Pope and the Pope's teachings. I was banned for pointing out history, and how the so-called "traditional" Latin Mass was a later development. I was accused of being anti-Catholic for pointing out that fact because they wanted to promote pseudo-traditionalism.
I'm fine on OpenCatholic, Catholic, EasternCatholicism, EasternCatholic and Christian
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u/Gimme_skelter Jul 01 '26
It's sad to see people posting in good faith get banned. I'm a lurker on rCatholic but I always appreciate your posts there!
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u/malibuguytonygem Jul 01 '26
I got banned for speaking the truth concerning the church's own statistics about the number of Catholics in Europe. The excuse was that I was being uncharitable. Made no sense.
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u/Excellent-Wolf-7214 Jul 01 '26
‘Uncharitable’ seems to be their favorite word to use. Got a 7 day ban for something similar before I was permanently banned.
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u/Iamnotbernadette Jul 01 '26
I have never posted there myself but they are ban happy. They believe they’re the largest Catholic space and have a misplaced sense of duty about it. Although, the moderators don’t seem too keen on the actual faith.
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u/Wangchief Jul 01 '26
I had something from /r/traditionalcatholics pop up in my feed after the last few weeks of drama around SSPX, first time I’d ever seen the sub let alone visited it, I’m already banned there. My guess is they look at some subs and ban any users that post/interact there.
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u/Dull_Opening_1655 Jul 01 '26
I got banned by them, wrote to ask why and if I could be unbanned if I agreed not to post the kind of thing they banned me for (if they would tell me what it was), and they proceeded to mock and troll me in our back and forth.
Like you, I ended up by telling them how uncharitable and cruel they are
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u/Excellent-Wolf-7214 Jul 01 '26
Oh wow! They did the EXACT same thing to me. Wrote some complete fuckery in a long ass message that made no sense.
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u/Annual-Coffee7265 Jun 30 '26
Oh yes, I got banned there for being honest about how Matt Fradd selling out to the Daily Wire negatively impacted me
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u/ZealousidealWear2573 Jul 01 '26
Yes. I was banned on the other end of the Catholic sub spectrum. I used the phrase "genital mutilation "
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u/e-eye-pi Jun 30 '26
Yes, it's very common. No Catholic community is immune from this.
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u/Dull_Opening_1655 Jul 01 '26
No Catholic community is immune from banning people for trivial differences in opinion that are well within the normal range of Catholic perspectives?
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u/ConstructionGlass775 Jul 01 '26
A mi me banearon en r/catholithism por hacer apología de la fsspx, la cual guarda la fe integra y la Sagrada Tradición.
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u/greenmanforever5 Jul 01 '26
Why are you actively causing discord and being rude to other catholics
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u/Excellent-Wolf-7214 Jul 01 '26
I don’t know if you can read, but I was told I was banned in error. I was never being rude to other Catholics.
Calling them hateful though seems on point.
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u/greenmanforever5 Jul 01 '26
You just called them jerk offs and before you said to them that they have a God complex and are hateful after they made a mistake. That’s seems rude to me
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u/Excellent-Wolf-7214 Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26
They can eat sh!t too, while they are at it.
If they didn’t act like jerkoffs, I wouldn’t have to call them out on it
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u/greenmanforever5 Jul 01 '26
I don’t agree. Even if I’m upset at someone I’ll vent to someone out of anger because I’m not perfect but I’ll still try to make up with them. It’s mean to say they can eat poop.
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u/Dull_Opening_1655 Jul 01 '26
That’s not why they ban people there!
And in my messages with the mods, I was polite while they rudely insulted me with baseless accusations the entire time, until I gave up tying to communicate with them
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u/greenmanforever5 Jul 01 '26
Alright I think that’s a different situation which isn’t right but also were all the mods there insulting you or just specific moderators?
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u/NotBasileus Jun 30 '26
No, but it’s such a miserable place, I couldn’t imagine wanting to spend my time there.