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Why the 'Rite of Passage' Needs to Make a Comeback
- Culture, Family, Featured, MomThink, Philosophy, Religion, Western Civilization
- December 1, 2025

Moving day is fast approaching for me, and until yesterday I was fretting about logistics. Boxes for packing up my books have been hard to come by, and I was stressing over who I could ask to help with the actual move. One friend was available, but another is recovering from surgery, while my middle
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In Rebecca Serle’s novel “In Five Years,” narrator and protagonist Dannie Cohan follows the path she set for herself as an adolescent. She becomes a lawyer with no ambitions for the courtroom, tackling instead the crisp, clear language of the law and contracts. “It was like poetry, but poetry with outcome, poetry with concrete meaning—with
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Now that I’ve spent a few years as what we euphemistically call a senior citizen, I’ve discovered that the autumn of life isn’t so bad. I’ve also learned that all that talk about “old age is not for sissies” is junk. Sissy or not, the years keep on passing. You want to see an example
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This past month has made me aware that the anti-Zionism and the anti-Semitic bigotry that have infected our news media and college campuses have trickled down into my own community. In one conversation, for instance, a good friend and fellow Catholic almost 50 years younger than I, stunned me with revelations about some of her
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