Serving Christ and Connecting Catholics in Western North Carolina
At the start of a recent semester, I showed a YouTube video to my students that lauded the perks of ditching social media. I thought it was a clever accompaniment to the assigned reading from Pascal’s “Pensées,” where Pascal argues that we seek distraction to avoid living with purpose before God.
Right now is a difficult time for nearly every family I know. Parents are stressed. Teens are depressed. Kids are anxious.
Studies on mental health back this up with statistics, but start a conversation with friends, family, neighbors or parishioners and you’ll soon hear stories of struggle and suffering.