If the breakdown of the family is one of the causes of secularism and makes evangelization -- including the evangelization of our own kids -- increasingly difficult, this Sunday, Father's Day, isn’t too soon for repentance and a changed way of life.
Perhaps what we miss -- perhaps what is most bothersome -- about fatherlessness and all of its consequences are that it perpetuates a lie about who God is.
A rather obscure but important study conducted by the Swiss government in 1994 revealed some astonishing facts with regard to the generational transmission of faith and religious values.