"He instinctively can find the shining greatness of our American culture and does a good job of highlighting it (although he also does have those rare lapses when he writes about hockey, but that is something caused by impurities in the Eastern waters or something)." Erik Keilholtz
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Mark C. N. Sullivan is an editor at a Massachusetts university. He is married and the father of three children. Email
A hot topic on the Life Teen "Teen Talk" message board is Catholic teaching on the, er, Lewinsky Question: Is it, for example, ever OK during marriage?
Were I a teen, I doubt I would dig biker Father J or his pronouncements on the relative coolness of sex acts.
Nor would I leap at the opportunity for a multimedia webcast on lust by Life Teen founder Msgr. Dale Fushek, particularly after the Phoenix Diocese paid $45,000 to settle a male Life Teen staffer's sexual harassment claim against him.
If I were a Pentecostalist, though, I'd probably holler in praise at the Life Teen bands' playing at the Bible on the Beach festival.
And Life Teens don't flog the Easter Bunny: Indeed, some have even incorporated Santa Claus into Christmas Mass.