The rapid, sweeping deterioration of values is characterized by a preoccupation-even an obsession-with the procreative act. Abstinence before marriage and fidelity within it are openly scoffed at-marriage and parenthood ridiculed as burdensome, unnecessary. Modesty, a virtue of a refined individual or society, is all but gone.

If prayer is to leave the public schools, let the ridicule of prayer leave also.

Devotion to the family and devotion to the Church are not different and separate things.

Teach yourself and teach your families about the gift of the Holy Ghost and the Atonement of Jesus Christ. You will do no greater eternal work than within the walls of your own home.

No one of us can survive in the world of today, much less what it will become, without personal inspiration.

The guilt that accompanies mistakes can be washed away.

Somewhere there is a message in the protest of the man who said, "You can't tell me that worry doesn't help. The things I worry about never happen."