They may look at you that way already, but this would make it worse. These observations are valuable, though, as background. It's important for us as adult Catholic educators to understand the terrain we're cultivating, so that we can cultivate it more fruitfully for the Lord. And in that regard, I want to briefly mention five main ideas or themes where we need to focus our special efforts as teachers. The first is silence.
Silence is holy.
It's where God talks to the soul. We don't have enough of it, and we need to help young people recover it. I don't have any particular antagonism for rock music. Some of it sounds pretty good. I do think the lyrics are sometimes very disturbing, but that's not my point.