The Choice of the Family

A Call to Wholeness, Abundant Life, and Enduring Hapiness

Hard Cover

The family safeguards our fundamental sense of community, because within it the child grows up in a web of intimately  connected rights and responsibilities to other people. But it also protects our unique, individual identity, because it shields the child with a mantle of privacy and personal devotion. And again, that's where the enduing power of marriage and family lies. We most easily understand and believe in love when we - ourselves - are the fruity of our parents' tenderness and fidelity. Love lived well is the unanswerable argument for God - and also for the worthiness of the human heart.

- Charles J. Chaput, archbishop of Philadelphia