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Offline songbird

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Re: Traditional Catholic AA
« Reply #15 on: March 31, 2025, 03:06:39 PM »
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  • The Solution came with Our Lord's Precious Blood, and His Mother Co-Redemptorix, before AA ever came la long.  Our Lady's Rosary is not stupid (calling Songbird an idiot) name calling is not good; OABrownson1876

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    Re: Traditional Catholic AA
    « Reply #16 on: April 01, 2025, 12:15:24 AM »
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  • First point is, someone has mentioned that A.A. has low success rates, but this is nothing to the point.  I do not blame weight rooms because we have a bunch of fat people roaming about in society. In the early days A.A. had very high success rates, 50-75 percent.  Today the judges and lawyers mandate that drunks do A.A. meetings; e.g. Johnny has had one too many DUI's, so the judge mandates that he go to AA for thirty days. The truth is Johnny is not done drinking.  But A.A. is not to blame, that is ridiculous.

    Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in 1935, and countless "Traditional Catholics" have frequented A.A. and put together substantial periods of sobriety.  Fr. Ralph Pfau was the first priest to get sober in A.A. in November, 1941, and he died sober in 1967.  He gave A.A. retreats all over America.  If A.A. were filled with Freemasons and dangerous for Catholics, as some of you foolishly claim, then I doubt these priests and lay Catholics would invest so much time and energy in A.A. A.A. is not a religious organization and has never claimed to be, hence Catholics are not in endangering their Faith by A.A. attendance.

    I have noticed in this Anonymous thread (I have no idea why it is anonymous) that some of you are offering immature, uninformed opinions about something you know very little about.  It was always our impression that if one were ignorant about a topic then he ought to listen in humble silence to those who do know something, and not blather useless opinions, and dangerous opinions at that.  I would never tell an alcoholic Catholic not to go to A.A.  That is terrible advice. 


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    Re: Traditional Catholic AA
    « Reply #17 on: April 01, 2025, 12:48:06 AM »
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  • Thankfully, I have never had to avail myself of their services, I hardly ever even drink, but I find their 12 steps to be similar to the Ignatian general examen.  Regrettably, the higher power to which they refer is not defined in terms of the Holy Trinity, but taking it just as it is, it is difficult to find any fault with it.

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    Re: Traditional Catholic AA
    « Reply #18 on: April 01, 2025, 05:32:24 AM »
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  • Are there any members here struggling with alcohol? I just went to an AA meeting and one person held up a picture of her dead cat and said that was her "higher power". She said she prayed to her dead cat for help to stop
    Drinking. Also the leader of the meeting trash talked the Catholic church and then said here "higher power" was a triangular tattoo on her arm she named "Grace". She said her tattoo was an angel and could be borrowed by other members. Other members mentioned bhuddism as helping them but they obviously had a sophomoric understanding of the teachings of that false religion.

    This nonsensical indifferatism is in every AA meeting.

    I am thinking of starting a traditional Catholic Alcohol Abstinence group if there is a need for it. The meetings would be held on zoom.

    Let me know if you would be interested in something like this.
    I have known traditional Catholics who have really struggled with drinking too much and it would be nice if there was a traditional Catholic version of the AA.  

    Prayers for you and that you find a good Catholic support group with people who are more helpful and understanding.  :pray:
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