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“But the example of parents remains a key factor-often the key factor-in shaping young adult beliefs. The family is the main transmitter of religious conviction. Disrupting the family disrupts an entire cultural ecology. Former Catholics tend to come from homes where parents were tepid, less engaged, and indifferent or skeptical in matters of faith. Divorce and single-parent households have furthered the problem. As families break up, fail to form, or simply lose interest in religious practice, the mental and moral universe of emerging adults becomes alienated from America's past. And if the mind of the young breaks fundamentally with the past, so, too, does that of the nation.”
-Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, Strangers in a Strange Land: Living the Catholic Faith in a Post-Christian World
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"Grotten på Bornholm" (The cave on Bornholm), between 1844 and 1869 by the Danish painter Anton Edvard Kieldrup (1826-1869)
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THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA 2004, dir. Joel Schumacher
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Clear Stream - Hsin-i Kuo , 1921.
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It's been a long time since I last took the bus. I had almost forgotten what it feels like to gaze out the window, catching fleeting glimpses into the lives of people in passing cars. Each face tells a different story—some look stressed, tired, or lost in thought, while others laugh, smile, or chat animatedly on the phone with a friend or loved one.
Life moves quickly, and in those brief moments, you witness fragments of other people's worlds—tiny, intimate details they themselves may not even notice, and that you'll likely never see again. It’s a reminder of how fleeting time truly is.
I can’t help but wonder: with so many fascinating lives unfolding around us, how is it that we still feel so disconnected from one another? Yet as one face disappears from view and another comes into focus, I also come to understand just how lonely the world can be.
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