Editorial: Young people are not the problem
Mar 16, 2018
If the recent conference at the University of Notre Dame
— where speakers postulated reasons for young people's disassociation
from the Catholic Church — represents the approach going into the
upcoming Synod of Bishops on young people, we would beg church officials
to postpone the gathering.
What we heard was a familiar litany, placing blame for missing young people on:
What we heard was a familiar litany, placing blame for missing young people on:
- Technology — specifically youths' obsession with smartphones — which supposedly robs them of the contemplative mind and makes them "suckers for irrelevancy."
- An aversion to "orthodoxy," a term the user brandished with the certainty that his strain of orthodoxy is the immutable version of the truth.
- The "dumbing down of our faith."
- The pervasiveness of pornography and relativism, of course.
- And a new danger — the "bland toleration" of diversity, a curious addition.
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