This work appears at an opportune moment - when many young parents are asking to know more about how the Catholic family was constituted in the past. It answers this question, and gives customs and practices that can be applied in your family. Explains how to build and maintain continuity and stability in a family for generations.

Dr. Horvat comments on Msgr. Henri Delassus' classic work, The Spirit of the Family, and reproduces a timely chapter from it: "Paternal Authority and Maternal Piety."


First in a series of books on the family.