+ JMJ Today's question is are Traditional Catholics Optimists? For reference, here's some definitions from the Merriam-Webster Dictionary : Optimistic: of, relating to, or characterized by optimism : feeling or showing hope for the future. Pessimistic: : a person who is inclined to expect poor outcomes : someone who is given to pessimism Optimism: a doctrine that this world is the best possible world, an inclination to put the most favorable construction upon actions and events or to anticipate the best possible outcome Pessimism: an inclination to emphasize adverse aspects, conditions, and possibilities or to expect the worst possible outcome; So a Traditional Catholic who is inclined to expect poor outcomes could be a realist in the near-term, but what about the long-term? The Extreme Sedevacantists that follow their principles to successively de-throning multiple Pontiffs to the absurdity are not optimists. I think that they may be fatalists or dogmatic pessimists . But t
+ JMJ One of my kids popped her head into my office as asked if she could ask me a question. Of course I said yes. She sat down and asked: If a man or woman murdered their current spouse so they could marry another, would that invalidate the following marriage? Suffice to say that I was speechless for a bit. Thinking she may have broken Daddy's brain she hastily added: Someone said that it would. I wasn't sure so I wanted to ask you! Someone said that it would? The answer is actually clear - even for today. Canon 1090: §1. Anyone who with a view to entering marriage with a certain person has brought about the death of that person’s spouse or of one’s own spouse invalidly attempts this marriage. §2. Those who have brought about the death of a spouse by mutual physical or moral cooperation also invalidly attempt a marriage together. Nice when things are clear and concise. :-) P^3 References https://www.newadvent.org/ cathen/04489a.htm https://www.vatican.va/ archive/cod-iur