Young Adults
World Youth Day Is for Everybody
Thursday, July 24th, 2008As I’ve become a father and now a grandfather, I catch myself thinking of World Youth Day (WYD) as an event–an amazing, terrific event, mind you–for another generation, but not for me. As I’ve been reading the various papal addresses and homilies from the event, however, I’ve come to see with the Holy Father and St. Augustine [...]
Abstinence and Red Carpets
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008With all the bad press that abstinence and chastity receive, it’s nice to hear some good news. This time it comes in the form of two new U.S. studies that “provide encouraging findings about abstinence education.” Check it out. And from Poland, a creative way to spotlight religious life: The Catholic University of Lublin hosted [...]
Jesus Christ, Hope of the Saints
Monday, April 21st, 2008Shortly before the Holy Father’s arrival in the United States last week, I felt obliged to comment on a post by Peter Steinfels appearing in The New York Times’ blog. Steinfels mentioned that he stands by his review of the 1985 book The Ratzinger Report, in which he characterized the comments on the state of the [...]