2021/08/18

from the Archbishop Chaput’s Address at the Napa Institute Conference, 7.27.2017

When young people ask me how to change the world, I tell them to love each other, get married, stay faithful to one another, have lots of children, and raise those children to be men and women of Christian character.  Faith is a seed.  It doesn’t flower overnight.  It takes time and love and effort.  Money is important, but it’s never the most important thing.  The future belongs to people with children, not with things.  Things rust and break.  But every child is a universe of possibility that reaches into eternity, connecting our memories and our hopes in a sign of God’s love across the generations.  That’s what matters.  The soul of a child is forever.

read complete adress: http://archphila.org/archbishop-chaputs-address-at-the-napa-institute-conference-whats-next-catholics-america-and-a-world-made-new/