We and Our Children: How to Make a Catholic Home

How does one develop a space for one's children free from the worst aspects of the surrounding culture? How to foster a spiritual life where children can develop a vision of God, themselves, and the world, and an approach to Him through prayer and the habits of daily life? Mary Reed Newland, in We and Our Children , offers wise counsel on making the home a domestic church for the raising of Catholic children in holiness, truth, and the Christian virtues.

All things central to a child's life—play, work, school, creative activity, family responsibilities, prayer, the sacraments, and the Mass—are shown to be occasions for encouraging a spiritual outlook and the formation of sound Catholic habits.