1. "Finally I’d like to mention something I’ve noticed about my generation. If they catch a whiff of hypocrisy, they’re outta there. They want to live their lives authentically—in whatever way that may be to them. They dislike people and organizations, be they religious or secular, that say one thing and do another. This is why—at least in part—we see such personal devastation when someone representing the church behaves so badly. It stinks of both inauthenticity and hypocrisy. It’s just yucky."

    My wife Julie on her Catholic blog: Lest we wonder, where are the “younger people”