For the last 20 or 30 years Americans have been in "deep denial" about the importance of fathers in the lives of boys.

It is nowadays very difficult for a boy to grow up with masculine honor in this society.

St. Ignatius did not plan his retreat for children, although it stands to reason that children, too, would benefit from an Ignatian spiritual retreat.

If you have both an Internet connection and children at home, and you haven't considered this problem seriously, I urge you to do so now.

The years and between 8-12 used to be the age of innocence.

This book is must reading for the millions who, thinking themselves compassionate, have recently come to endorse homosexuality as a legitimate alternative expression of man's sexual nature.

The institution of marriage is already reeling because of the effects of the sexual revolution, no-fault divorce and out-of-wedlock births. We have reaped the consequences of its devaluation.

Americans should think long and hard about the making the feeling of repugnance at an unwanted sexual advance subject to additional penalties under the law.

Americans already are being inundated with competing rhetorics of family values versus civil rights, and with contrasting images of traditional families compared with same-sex wedding ceremonies.

In this chapter and the three that follow we will address the second point: Is homosexuality innate and inherited?