Aha! So I found the unwritten rule of CathInfo, which may be something like this:

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All members are bound sub levi to assent to the following proposition: The State of Texas is the greatest State in the American Republic, unsurpassed by no other in the past, present, future, conditional future, or in any creatable economy wherein the American Republic would exist.

According to my opinion, this does not seem to be inherently contrary to faith and morals, and it is therefore licit to recognize it to be Texellent.

 

It's good to see you've figured it out!  :cool:

Unfortunately, though, Matthew may have to repeat his Texan culture class as part of his citizenship requirements. He failed to recognize the tune "Yellow Rose of Texas" this morning.  

I already know I couldn't live the single life, too lonely and pointless for me.

It takes a couple years to get used to the idea of no one being around who cares if you live or die, no one crying at your funeral, etc... But after you do get used to it, it is absolutely fantastic to be single.  It seems to me almost as if married people are part of another religion, though I know they're not.  But the mindset of someone who wants to be married, as opposed to someone who doesn't, is very different.  You will notice that the single people in the parish tend to hang out with other single people, and the families with other families.  It's like we are two different breeds within the same Church.  

Of course, I'd rather be a monk and be part of a community, but I'm not inclined to take a vow of poverty to live in a fly-by-night monastery, like with the Abbot Leonard situation.  Some might say this shows lack of confidence in God.  Maybe so, so let me rephrase -- I would join a small monastery if I felt total confidence that it was right for me, but that hasn't happened.  In France the one monastery I know of is sedeprivationist, and while I'm not totally opposed to that theory, I'm not going to go around shilling for it either when it doesn't convince me.  Well, it turns out that unless you are sedeprivationist, you won't make it with that group.

The CMRI has a large group of nuns, but for whatever reason, their monastery has never taken off.  I think they have one or two brothers, lol.  Lolling aside, it is really sad that there is almost no way for sedevacantist males to be monks.  I'm positive this is what is driving so many of them to marriage.  If we had thriving monasteries, so many trads would be attracted to it, but we don't.  Just look at what the devil has accomplished here.  A Church without monasteries, without numerous examples of humility and poverty to attract youth, is like a garden of stones where the only flowers that grow are the ones that grow between the cracks.  It has typically been monks and religious like St. Francis who refresh and restore the Church in times of crisis, and monks like this are glaring by their absence today.  There are a couple here and there, but it is depressingly sparse compared to previous times.

There are plenty of available women in northeast Wisconsin.

 

hmm, I've always wanted to visit Wisconsin. I hear it's an udder delight !

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I already know I couldn't live the single life, too lonely and pointless for me.

It takes a couple years to get used to the idea of no one being around who cares if you live or die, no one crying at your funeral, etc... But after you do get used to it, it is absolutely fantastic to be single.  It seems to me almost as if married people are part of another religion, though I know they're not.  But the mindset of someone who wants to be married, as opposed to someone who doesn't, is very different.  You will notice that the single people in the parish tend to hang out with other single people, and the families with other families.  It's like we are two different breeds within the same Church.  

Of course, I'd rather be a monk and be part of a community, but I'm not inclined to take a vow of poverty to live in a fly-by-night monastery, like with the Abbot Leonard situation.  Some might say this shows lack of confidence in God.  Maybe so, so let me rephrase -- I would join a small monastery if I felt total confidence that it was right for me, but that hasn't happened.  In France the one monastery I know of is sedeprivationist, and while I'm not totally opposed to that theory, I'm not going to go around shilling for it either when it doesn't convince me.  Well, it turns out that unless you are sedeprivationist, you won't make it with that group.

The CMRI has a large group of nuns, but for whatever reason, their monastery has never taken off.  I think they have one or two brothers, lol.  Lolling aside, it is really sad that there is almost no way for sedevacantist males to be monks.  I'm positive this is what is driving so many of them to marriage.  If we had thriving monasteries, so many trads would be attracted to it, but we don't.  Just look at what the devil has accomplished here.  A Church without monasteries, without numerous examples of humility and poverty to attract youth, is like a garden of stones where the only flowers that grow are the ones that grow between the cracks.  It has typically been monks and religious like St. Francis who refresh and restore the Church in times of crisis, and monks like this are glaring by their absence today.  There are a couple here and there, but it is depressingly sparse compared to previous times.

Alas my poor sweet Benedict he who cries for singularity of person and weeps at the thought of marriage intwined. Dost thought know Much Ado About Nothing about these things for which we hath seen all around us for these many years upon which we hath  been across this earth. Mayhaps who knows for which may come again save God that in these coming years you may have come upon perchance a fancy upon a girl as fair as your Beatrice of whom you doth argue loudly upon.

Moreover sir it would displease me not to see you with fair maiden's hand before the Friar but alas it comes upon God's Grace to see if thoust hath a vocation :)