from Dick Meyer’s “Why We Hate Us” quoting Charles Chaput, The Roman Catholic archbishop of denver:
Much of American culture right now is built on an adolescent fiction. The fiction is that life is all about you as an individual–your ideas, your appetites, and your needs. Believe me: It isn’t…
Adulthood brings power. Power brings responsibility. And the meaning of your life will hinge on a simple, basic choice. Will you engage the world with your heart and brain and faith, and work to make it a better place–not just for yourself and the people you love but also for people you don’t even know whose survival depends on your service to the common good? Or will you wrap yourself in a blanket of noise and toys and consumer junk, and stay a child?
