All members of the family, each according to his or her own gift, have the grace and responsibility of building day by day the communion of persons, making the family “a school of deeper humanity”. - St. John Paul II, On the Family Apostalic Exhortation 

The Family is a “school of love” where the virtues necessary for the building of a just and peaceful society are taught, developed, and put into practice in the concrete reality of daily life.  For this reason, the Church recognizes in the family, the fundamental building block of society. 

In the family we discover a good that can only be realized within a relationship of love with another.  Such relationships are not always easy, and very often range from the inconvenient to the downright demanding.  We find ourselves coming face to face with the just needs and demands of the other as well as with one another’s faults and failures. And so family relationships are often difficult.