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Ok, Mrs. Kaldawi, I'll bite --

1. What is/are the element(s) of truth behind the "rumor" that your son got engaged to be married?

2. Why would someone publish something about Steven that is untrue? No offense, but frankly your son is a nobody. There's not exactly much reason to pay attention to him, much less publicly lie about him. He just doesn't matter. Again, I know you love him and he's your son...but let's be objective and realistic here. He just doesn't matter that much in the scheme of things. I know it sounds like I'm dissing him -- but really, I don't give him any thought (except for this thread of course). No offense to you or to him.

Also, if you go on to Facebook and look Steven up you will find that he publicly states that he has a girlfriend(In a relationship). Nowhere on his public Facebook(We are not Facebook friends) does it say he is engaged.

Indeed.

But looking at his page, it's obvious he will be soon. He's basically pre-engaged. He's found a serious Catholic girl and the romantic feelings seem to be quite mutual. Saying he's engaged is only a slight projection into the future -- but let's just say it wouldn't be going out on a limb -- it wouldn't take a Nostradamus.

Thank you for answering my question though. It looks like there's QUITE a foundation for the "rumor". The "rumor" that he's engaged is only off by a few months. Big deal.

I don't understand why his mother (or anyone else) would be offended if someone projected the inevitable -- what, about 3 months in advance? If Mrs. Kaldawi has ANY problems whatsoever with her son being married, or needs ANY kind of adjustment before she'll be at peace with that -- she'd better get adjusting! That's all I can say.

Here is Stephen's latest post on his Facebook:

Stephen Kaldawi
7h
6/4/21
God is so Good! 😊🙏✝️  Once again, just wanted to share the joy and thanksgiving of my recent visit with my dear girlfriend and her family in Alabama for a few days.  Definitely moving forward with our relationship, praying for guidance as we grow in our Love for each other and for Our Creator and Redeemer.  Rightly did Saint Augustine instruct: "Love, and do what you want"; for when we truly love one another, nothing less can fill our hearts!  

Also from his Facebook page:


4/4/21
Dear Friends, Family, and Acquaintances:
Happy Easter Sunday! 🌞 🐣🙏✝️
For whomever may have been wondering, a lot has happened in my life during this Lent and since I asked for prayers to discern the Will of God.   I will briefly summarize it here.  
As most of you know, I have spent the last five and a half years in a Traditional Catholic Seminary belonging to a "branch" of the Society of St. Pius X, called the "SSPX - Marian Corps" or "Resistance".   I had joined them at the age of 18, easily influenced by their zealous and charismatic mission.   In the last year, I had been having serious doubts and unsettled objections about their purpose, and I came to the conclusion that they are basically an unjustified sect falsely claiming to be essentially the last remnant of faithful Catholic clergy in the World.  
So last February, after concentrated consideration and prayer, I decided to leave their seminary, with the intention of contacting the mainstream SSPX to inquire if I may and should continue my formation with them.   After doing so, I was informed by the SSPX that according to two official docuмents from the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith in Rome in 1976 and 1983 (links below), the lineage through which I had been ordained a Deacon at that seminary was juridically null and void, so I had already been automatically laicized upon my ordination to the Diaconate.   Moreover, after personally explaining to my old SSPX pastor the grave difficulties I have had with my seminary formation, he strongly advised me NOT to continue formation to the Sacred Priesthood, but to explain my case by letter to Rome, and to ask for a particular confirmation of my lay status, whereby I am (already) relieved of the rights and duties of being a Deacon, and also for a confirmation of a dispensation of the private vows I had taken before and recently been dispensed of by my SSPX Confessor.  
Given my particular difficulties with the seminary formation, I do not believe that the religious life of a brother or monk is the Will of God for me either.   So after further prayer, consideration, and consultation, I have decided to prepare for the married state.   This may come as a shock to many of you, but I am sure that this is indeed the Will of God for me, and what will best contribute to my true happiness and my Salvation.  
Thank you all for your prayers, and be assured of my own for you.   May our Risen Savior bless you all and make you Saints!  🙂🙏✝️
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Decrees from the Roman CDF on the Abp. Thuc Lineage:
https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/docuмents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_19760917_illegitimas-ordinationes_en.html?fbclid=IwAR0qbd5QiqzJ9MAcWXCEwrPdiN7nAcNDqrJ25xFJYLp7IXcaVVnGcF1NqJs

https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/docuмents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_19830312_poenae-canonicae_en.html?fbclid=IwAR0ys6KJ_UHQF6OgNxXpQcOa1AgIKazrow8NEfPrT-9AqSaqyp4tflo6Fpk