In a world where we are taught to hide the warts and traumas of our real selves by creating a cleaner, more beautiful version that others can’t possibly not like, a personal manifesto, which is by its definition the act of making real and transparent that which is hidden or elusive, will seem a bit …
The ideal Catholic is sagacious, commanding, courageous, debonair, persuasive and driven to influence the world. Unfortunately, (s)he’s an endangered species. Instead, Catholics today tend to be insular, judgmental, ill-informed and well, lacking most of what is essential to being Catholic. There’s a difference between the worldliness that the Gospel warns against and allowing ourselves to become …
Kerry Cronin, professor at Boston College, is well aware of how this new generation has evolved their own values. She speaks of three prominent groups today in the modern dating world. The first group is made up of those who replace dating with hooking up, or “hanging out’. While this type of casual sex, which …
The death of modern dating has been coming for a long time. For Lisa Bunnage, parenting coach and the presenter of a Ted Talk on today’s hookup culture, it started in the 60’s when child-rearing adults began shirking their responsibilities as parents. As women gradually gained access to the workforce (a good thing, mind you) …
As Lauren Peterson recently discovered, modern dating sucks. She had met Michael over Bumble, and they started hooking up every Monday night after both agreeing that they weren’t looking for love, or any sort of commitment in particular. After six weeks, Lauren had the routine down. Every Monday evening she would walk over to Michael’s apartment, …
I noticed a really attractive man while driving home last week. He looked so good that I had to look twice, without serious detriment to my focus on the road, of course. Now, being a modern, 20-something, working woman who is about to start a family, and who, like Stephen Colbert, is giving Catholicism a …
