Striving Catholic, twice now you have intimated that we have slandered the pope. Nobody here has done any more than stated his public words and actions. Can you show any evidence that anyone one here has done any other but offer the information you have asked for and commented on your own poor knowledge of the Faith founded on the apostles, as opposed to Vatican II.

You have much to learn, being a neophyte of less than 3 weeks!

Are you praying the Rosary? Does your lady friend pray it? Do you pray together?

Know that God has only the best for you and for her, if only you will do His Will.

You are absolutely right. I just looked back at the old posts and found no one actually slandering the pope, just coming dangerously close to questioning the papacy as well as the claims of an invalid Mass, etc. That got me really troubled and upset.

Anyways, after some reflection, I think I am just in the wrong place at the wrong time, assuming this forum is a place for the everyday catholics but it's not. I was here with the intention to seek prayers and advice, not really looking to join another cause or have another conversion.

Thus for my rash words, I apologise to the Christian brethen here and seek everyone's forgiveness. I bid everyone farewell.

God Bless!

I think, at your age, it’s OK if you don’t feel attracted to either the religious (consecrated) life or the married state. I certainly didn’t, but neither did I feel pressured by anyone. We were taught there were 3 possibilities - the consecrated religious life, the married life and the single life in the world.

Keep your options open right now. Just pray to do God’s Will.

None of the 3 choices are easy. All have their challenges. I lived the single life until 36, and now I am married 42 years.

I am sure you’ll get lots of comments, advice and discussion. Should be interesting.

Striving Catholic, twice now you have intimated that we have slandered the pope. Nobody here has done any more than stated his public words and actions. Can you show any evidence that anyone one here has done any other but offer the information you have asked for and commented on your own poor knowledge of the Faith founded on the apostles, as opposed to Vatican II. 

You have much to learn, being a neophyte of less than 3 weeks!

Are you praying the Rosary? Does your lady friend pray it? Do you pray together?

Know that God has only the best for you and for her, if only you will do His Will.

Reportedly the Starlink satellites are the size of an office desk and are allegedly between 200 and 300 miles away, and have no exterior illumination.  So how can you see something the size of an office desk from 200+ miles away at night when it has no source of light?  Maybe they're not what Elon et al. claim they are.  Have you ever thought about that?

Supposedly they reflect the light of the sun.  I've never seen them, but there is video of them traveling in tandem, like a train going through the sky:



Light such as this being 200-300 miles away isn't so outlandish.  The red blinking lights you see on TV towers, which can be 2000 feet tall, are about the size of a shoebox (albeit with internal illumination) and can easily be seen at night 10 or more miles away, if you have a straight shot from your location to the transmitter.  An office desk is several times larger than one of these lights (think office desk versus shoebox).

I think you have an interesting point.  The society has become effeminate. But is it because of the women (taking over), the men (letting them), both, or something else?  Maybe if we reestablish a good Catholic society these things would go back to the way God intended.  For now I guess we just have to muddle through this world with our strong Catholic principles.

It was an orchestrated plan by the Jiu's and haters of Christian Societies.  It was a direct attack on the family unit because they knew that was the backbone of society. 

They started by pulling men away from their homes and into industrial and factory type jobs instead of working at their homesteads and making productive property and family businesses, etc.

Then with the orchestrated World Wars they started to get women into the workforce and pulled them away from the home.  Now with jobs co-ed there would always be occasions of sin and adultery which breaks family bonds.

Then the current "EdJєωcation" system was set up and established to get the kids out of the home and brainwash kids with the anti-Christian garbage you see today.

It was a gradual and purposeful dismantling of society, piecemeal to break family bonds so they can be owned by the state.  I believe it will be fixed someday with the Catholic Restoration but when that happens is unknown.