Time Spent with Your Children is Never Wasted

A woman and a man who were watching their children play at a playground, eventually got into a conversation. After a while, the man called out to his ...

Adolescent Depression May Be Linked to Technology

In her Twitter feed, psychologist Jean Twenge summarized the content of her article on the rise in teen depression. The National Survey on Drug and Health ...

Live Streaming Platforms See Massive Increase

According to a new report, during the Coronavirus lockdown audiences watched 7.46 billion hours of live-streamed content just in the third quarter of ...

Escaping the Cult of Productivity

Nina Rudnick directs a non-profit that used to have her constantly immersed in her work. On a typical day, she’ll herd her 3-year-old son out of ...

A Surprising ‘Greatest Fear in Life’

Maria Stenvinkel, a corporate consultant from Sweden, asked 65 people from around the world, “What’s your greatest fear in life?”

As ...

Surprising Number of Young American Women Want to Become Nuns

To the surprise of journalist Eve Fairbanks, an astonishing number of young American females have a serious desire to become a Catholic nun. Unexpectedly, ...

Musician David Crosby: ‘We Don't Have Anywhere Near Enough Time’

On a 2020 podcast, musician David Crosby opened up about his mortality:

We don’t have anywhere near enough time. I didn’t start figuring out ...

Pandemic Forcing Many to Re-Examine Life Priorities

As any secular psychologist and sociologist will tell you, the average person definitely does not reassess their daily and lifetime priorities. Harvard ...

Stuck in the ‘Everyday’? Try Searching for Truth

The 20th Century American Catholic writer, Walker Percy, wrote frequently about how life in the modern world alienates us from things that truly matter. ...

When the Alarm Clock Was a Person

There once was a time people were awakened, not by a cell phone or even an alarm clock, but by a “knocker-upper.” For many workers in early ...