Attention Catechism: Why Children Inherit Faith, Meaning, and the Sacred (opens in new tab)

Somewhere in America tonight, a fourteen-year-old is learning about death from TikTok because nobody at dinner mentioned Grandma after the funeral. The adults discussed logistics. Who brought the casserole. Whether the airline refunded the ticket. How late the service ran. Whether Uncle Ray looked “better than expected.” Then everyone quietly returned to their screens like survivors evacuating an emotionally unstable country. This is becoming one of the defining characteristics of modern fami...