TERMS OF SERVICE
PURPOSE: We are a community of Catholic Moms. The purpose of this message board is to provide a place for mothers who wish to grow in the Catholic faith, through their vocation of marriage and motherhood, to meet with other like minded women; to share the daily mundane, trivial, catastrophic and triumphant moments of motherhood; to support one another; to pray for one another; to encourage one another. We are inspired by the Apostolate of Holy Motherhood. We come here to be renewed in the Holy Spirit, to return to our duties to God, husband and children with renewed faith, hope and love.**Political comment threads are not allowed. Threads bearing information links are permitted as long as no personal comments are made.
**Commentary on other faiths is not allowed. We do not build up the Church when we disparage other faiths, even if we have been hurt by others. Threads bearing information or apologetic links are permitted as long as no personal comments are made.
In an effort to maintain a community focus that is loyal to the Magisterium of the Roman Catholic Church, the administrators of this community will look to the counsel and guidance of Father Scalia whenever questions arise in certain challenging threads.
RULES OF THE MESSAGE BOARD:
**Remember that above all, CHRIST and HIS MOTHER read these messages. Don't be posting anything or with any tone you wouldn't want CHRIST and HIS MOTHER to read.
1) When speaking with or about other sinners, please follow the example of Christ. Let your words, tone and actions be a light...so that others may give glory to God...and not wash their hands of us as a bunch of self-righteous characters. We have many who lurk.
2) Please avoid contentious posting; please make sure you can back up your post with fact by providing supportive links, quotes or footnotes where necessary. When helping others clarify an aspect of the Catholic faith or history of the Church, please provide links and footnotes where necessary. Please refrain from name-calling and condescension.
With respect to private revelations CMomC looks to the guidance of Holy Mother Church. Please refrain from posting quotes from or links to private revelations that have not received an imprimatur and nihil obstat or that have been investigated and not found to be authentically miraculous by the local bishop(s).
There is a directory of apparitions and their status here: http://campus.udayton.edu/mary//resources/aprtable.html
And a good explanation of how and why the Church discerns the validity of apparitions here: http://campus.udayton.edu/mary//resources/newsltr.html
3) Comfort the doubtful
4) Comfort the sorrowful
5) Bear wrongs patiently
6) Forgive injuries
7) Pray for one another
CONSEQUENCES:
Any infraction of any of these terms will result in the following consequences:
First time: A warning. +
Second time: A second warning. +
Third time: Deletion of membership. +
+ Please keep in mind that the administrators may delete a poster's membership or ban a member at any time if necessary for the good of the community. Deletion of membership is not the same as banning and deleted members may re-apply and be re-admitted after an appropriate amount of time deterimined by and at the discretion of the administrators. Upon re-admittance, formerly deleted members will begin at a post count of zero and will need to meet the requirements for re-admittance into the Caritas forum.
NOTE: The italicized portion in the above paragraph has been suspended at this time. Hostile members that have been deleted will not be re-accepted into the community.
*Previous consequences issued to members prior to this TOS will still be in effect and will not be altered in any way.
In other words, given the purpose of this message board community, we will have no tolerance for those who fail to respect this community. Ignorance and confusion in general are not excuses.
Also, in an effort to not fall into gossip, the Founding Moms will not comment directly on any mom who has left the community for whatever reason.
Updated March 26, 2008