Prof @CatholicUniv @TheBuschSchool | Author, speaker, sourdough enthusiast | Book "Hannah's Children: Women Defying the Birth Dearth" | #postcardsforMacron
Jan 30 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Important long read from FT, nicely sums up the situation.
Birth rates are low and falling everywhere--in countries with pro-family policies and those without.
@AnnaRotkirch says "nobody really knows what's going on." That's why we have to study the outliers. #hannahschildren 🧵1/N
ft.com/content/500c0f…
Leah, 5 kids, told me: "I think I always knew that I wanted to have children, but I never had a preconceived notion of, ‘I want to have x amount of kids.’ I just knew that I wanted to be a mom and I knew that I wanted to have a family. But I didn’t grow up with a lot of siblings and I didn’t have that experience and I didn’t grow up super religious.
Like I grew up in a reformed congregation which is basically completely secular except you do token Jewish things. And now, we’ve chosen a different life where we are much more intentionally practicing religion and the traditional." 2/N
Jul 22, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Brilliant Kevin D. Williamson @NRO on weddings and debt:
“a society disconnected from divinity will always find something to worship
— what do you think is really going on in our ridiculous modern weddings?”
nationalreview.com/the-tuesday/mo…
“And, then, the kicker: ‘I had to take out a loan from my retirement in order to pay for our wedding.’
At which point, I found myself saying out loud: “Well, no. No, you didn’t.”
Feb 24, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
I am going to start saying this once a week. We’re not a Christian country if kids are languishing in foster care in need of adoption. Fellow church-goers: we have to do better.
Let us resolve in 2020 to take home every child who needs a home. Anything less is a scandal.
Nothing in the official #Synod2018 documents seems to pass the sniff test. For instance, to communicate with youth, Synod says: "We propose a two-element solution. Firstly, a series of small messages, updates, perhaps at the end of each week from the Commission for Information."
"Secondly, a message from the Synod to the Youth of the World." Taken from: press.vatican.va/content/salast…