By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet, Human Life International - “As the family goes, so goes the nation, and so goes the whole world in which we live.”... Pope St. John Paul II famously spoke these words in a 1986 homily, delivered in Perth, Australia. This prophetic sentence is often quoted by Catholic pro-family activists. However, it is only one sentence in a longer homily, dedicated to a strong, unapologetic defense of the Church’s teaching on life and family.