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I am wondering if there are any priests (or religious sisters) who left or considered leaving and what that decision was like. I have a good friend who's undergoing something of a crisis, and I would really like to provide him with some positive examples (either from who left priesthood or who stayed)

Many thanks!

EDIT: Contributions by people who know priests or sisters who left are also welcomed!

There has been a lot of glazing over the SSPX in anglophone catholic spaces in the past week (along the lines of "oh isn't it a pity that they are going schismastic, they are a really valuable contribution to the Church").

I think this article aptly reminds us that many people in the SSPX are not harmless, but really religious fundamentalists.

I am thinking I may have to skip the opening act due to the time it takes me to get to London. Is it okay to go in after 5:30 or are there really long queues / they won't let you in?

I swear that after world cup 2022 the messi-ronaldo debate seemed settled. Then, ronaldo underachieved in saudi arabia and kept giving embarassing interviews and it seemed like only a minority still thought he was better than Messi.

Now there's all these randos defending him, saying the league of nations is just like a world cup, that argentina stole the 2022 WC.

What is going on? Do you think it's younger fans or newer fans to the game that didn’t actually watch these 2 play?

In all my years of being catholic and hanging around catholic men and women, I always had the impression that Church teaching on contraception is generally , if politely, ignored. Even very catholic women I know, including catechists, took the pill.

Yet online so many conversations seem to be around NFP and the "right " way to do it (which is obviously very difficult to achieve). Is this just a side effect of extremely online catholics? Is it an American thing?

I think the show doesn't get enough credit for some really profound insights into people. I am re watching the lifetime achievement award episode (S8E9) , and i really love the discovery that Frasier has used psychiatry to rationalise feelings because he's afraid of them instead of feeling them and processing them. It's so apt to the character and something that happens to a lot of people.

I found this interview really thought provoking. I want to read her stuff now:

In medieval Europe, the question was whether women are the same species as men. That's really the bottom line. When God is male, the male becomes God. The argument is that Christ does not live in the resurrection in women. To say that is damning. Not only Christians, but everyone in the world, can point to the Catholic Church to say women are second class and women don't deserve the same respect as men.

I have read him before (I read a couple of his shorter books), but I am struggling with Palace Walk. It is so repetitive, he spent so long introducing the characters, and even now I am almost midway through the book and nothing really has happened that moves the narrative forward. Even when a pretty significant event has happened, it just feels like nothing changes.

If anyone has read the Palace walk trilogy, does it get better? ould I perservere?

I think about this a lot. I really love Niles and Daphne's relationship, but I wonder a lot about whether it is realistic to carry a torch for someone for years, especially when married to 2 other people. During the divorce episode, Niles flaunts the idea that maybe he too was to blame for the end of his marriage with Maris. While I agree with Frasier that it is not his fault the marriage ended, I also don't get why Niles spent so long trying to get back to Maris while he was in love with Daphne

This being said, I really do think Niles's feelings for Daphne are the show's crowning arch, the slow burn is delicious to watch.

For instance, I would have loved the show to have had a few episodes exploring the relationship between Niles and Roz. I really liked the scene Roz finds out Niles had been in love with Daphne for ages and i think more could have been done with that

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I am 33, live alone, and work in the North of England. I have just gotten a new job and I am trying to decide whether I should start saving up for a property or not.

A few points. In my home country in South Europe, I own a studio flat that belonged to my grandmother. It is not big, but it is located in a very nice area, near the beach and all sorts of amenities. My grandmother lived there for 40 years.

I live alone and I do not want children, so it is very unlikely that I would pass on property to any descendents.

I plan to stay in the North West of England where renting is still fairly reasonable (my current flat is 650 a month). I don’t know if i want to retire in England, it depends on a lot of factors, but even if I did it would be safe to say that I would always split my time between England and my home country.

I have around 20k in savings. For a decent property in this area, I am looking at 150k to 180k, realistically. Living alone means I would have to shoulder a mortgage all by myself, so I wouldn't want my mortgage to exceed £700 on a property without service charges.

Considering my current salary, I would only be able to put away about 300 pounds a month for savings towards a house. This would mean that I would have to spent the next 8 years of my life leading a rather frugal lifestyle.

I am wondering whether this is wise. Living alone means I am at the mercy of interest rates. If i get a flat, which is cheaper, then there's service charges to consider.

But obviously renting also means that I am the mercy of rising rent prices. The only point is that I struggle to see why I should spend so long investing to buy a property when I already have a place to live in my retirement. I am also a little reticent about spending the next years of my life depriving myself of things like traveling (which I haven't really done so far because of family obligations and university), to buy a property.

Do you still think buying is a safe bet in these circumstances?