I did some quick calculations: There are about 25.5 million teenagers in the USA (ages 13-19). On average, each one spends 87 hours per year looking for or at pornography online. That means U.S. teens spend about 2.2 billion man-hours on pornography per year. There are about 230 million adults in the USA (ages 20 [...]
In a culture drunk on “tolerance,” it’s no wonder we’ve begun to mistake it as some type of supreme virtue at the expense of real virtue. And we’ve done so to the point that it doesn’t really matter what it is that we’re tolerating, as long as we’re tolerant.
“We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.” [...]
“The sin of the century is the loss of the sense of sin. – Pope Pius XII (in a 1946 address to the United States Catechetical Congress) Prophetic much? Obviously such a sin was already occurring at his time for him to be addressing it. But how much more does that ring true 60 years [...]
Fr. Richard John Neuhaus recently passed away last Thursday – Jan 8, 2009. A Lutheran pastor who later converted to become a Catholic priest, he was one of the great contemporary minds of the Church, especially in regard to American faith and politics. He will be missed and remembered. Here’s a short interview with him [...]
