Many people — those seeking happiness in their normal lives and those seeking glory through dictatorial leadership — have gone astray by trying to create a Heaven on Earth.
Category: Editorial
Put the book down
As a note to all, I am one of the worst offenders of the struggle I am about to describe here. If any of you are going through the same challenges, perhaps we can all pray for each other.
An exercise in humility
As I’m fond of saying, we’re living in the future. We’ve reached a golden time where there are a lot of written words and resources about almost anything you want to learn more about.
Escape in the headphones for a while
A question that I’ve long dreaded to hear is “What kind of music do you like?” My brain immediately goes into “This isn’t going to end well” mode.
Two paths, one journey
This week, we’re celebrating marriages in the Catholic Herald. We have some pages dedicated to that beautiful, holy, and important sacrament.
It should be easier to ‘get help’
Suicides aren’t typically reported as news stories, but unfortunately, one was recently — that of Neena Pacholke.
The meaning of value
Earlier this week, an 70-year-old piece of cardboard, measuring nearly nine square inches, sold for $12.6 million.
Are we being our real selves?
Through the progress and mixed blessings of modern technology, we have the best capability today of presenting ourselves as we want to be seen.
Privacy is a thing of the past
We are living in a time where there are incalculable ways to communicate with someone. We’ve gone beyond face-to-face, letters, and even phone calls to texts, DMs, Snaps, Tweets, “TikToks,” posts, emails, and other syllables that probably don’t make sense to a lot of people.
We’re living in the ‘future’ — ours to shape
After the start of the atomic age, 1945 or so, the head-spinning advances in science and new ways of thinking prompted a new slew of futurism, with many of these ideas expressed in the science fiction of the time.