But rumor has it that the Holy Spirit, rarely one to observe canons of propriety, occasionally hangs out with us. Popular culture is important. I do not mean that you should take pop culture soberly, though. In fact, many of us have a playful, ironic, or irreverent attitude toward our favorite songs, movies, sitcoms, comic books, and so on. Mass. Much of the meaning generated by popular culture in our lives has something of a subterranean effect on us, while other parts of it we are conscious of.
Pluralism can be a virtue.
Raised on a steady diet of adult-themed or simply amoral video games, rock idols, and movies, for example, we are incapable of judging right from wrong. You would be right to think that many of us are not quite sure where our moral values come from, except from somewhere deeply private and within, or perhaps in a highly individual, but still private, relationship with God or the universe. But that does not mean we are not struggling to make such moral judgments almost daily, and that we do not already have a fundamental moral commitment. We know, almost intuitively, that if God is really God, this God is not bound by the walls of one church or the biases of one culture. Being part of a parish is hard for someone my age.