Innovative Steps to Reclaim a Human Way of Life for the Next Generation
Noelle Mering Newsweek
A small coffee shop filled with young adults in rural Wyoming felt palpably different for reasons Justin Schneir, a father and entrepreneur, could not immediately identify. He whispered to his wife that somehow it reminded him of a coffee shop in the 1990s. "You know why, don't you?" she replied. "No one is using a cell phone!"
Technology poses a formidable threat, but our discussion of it need not be entirely negative in tone. There are bad things out there, and certainly we want to keep them out of our homes and lives. But more important is the positive: what we are building in our family and community cultures. In approaching conversations with kids about our family tech decisions, kids are more likely to buy in if they understand that decisions are being made for the sake of something good, rather than merely to keep away something bad.
Bros' box-office flop shouldn't leave us scratching our heads or screeching on Twitter. The culture celebrated by the film is antithetical to romance, writes Carl R. Trueman in First Things.
Ostopolitik, the Vatican's conciliatory foreign-policy turn during and after the Cuban Missile Crisis, deserves retrospection and reconsideration, says George Weigel in The Wall Street Journal.
In South Bend, multiple professors flout both Catholic teaching and university policy by advertising their willingness to provide abortion-inducing drugs to students. In National Review, Alexandra DeSanctis chronicles this foreboding turn of events.
"We’re still in the very long wake of Vatican II...and that’s why To Sanctify the World is so important." Francis X. Maier's review of George Weigel's latest work underscores the characteristics of inflection points in Church history.
After Roe: The Constitution, Rights, Policy and Politics
On Tuesday, Alexandra DeSanctis debated Jill Filipovic of CNN on abortion in public thought and life in the wake of Roe v. Wade's reversal by the Supreme Court. The conversation, hosted by Oakland University, is now available for viewing.
