Dating: What's the Point?

In my opinion, the ‘anti-daters’ are not realistic. In order for someone to spend time with a potential love interest, he or she needs to go on dates with that individual. They assume “dating is all about sex.” True, many college students on campus do “hook up,” an ambiguous term; however not all students do. In addition, these students may feel this pressure to “hook up” because of the apparent frequency on campuses. I think many teens, not just college students have a pressure to “hook up” because of their peers. A distinctive line that I read from Chapter 5 was “Falling in love makes people appear to us as gifts.” I believe that a dating relationship with another person makes one discover characteristics that he or she may not have found otherwise.

Papal Assignment

Some topics I think are important for the next Pope to address are sexual abuse issues and the declining number of priests in the developed world. I think the future of the Church needs to become more modernized because there is indifference toward church teachings from the world’s youth. To be a woman in the Church is very restrictive. A woman religious can only become a sister. However, laywomen in the Church can be Eucharistic ministers and altar servers (but so can men). Women in the Church somehow need to have an equal playing field as men. If I could change one think in the Church it would be to take away the literal Latin translations. These translations are not relatable to the modern world because of their foreign speech. Unfortunately, there is not room in the current hierarchy for an organizational democracy. The cardinals pray to the Holy Spirit for inspiration in their daily work and especially when choosing the next Pope.