This is Dr. Starkeys fatal flaw. The nuclear and extended family, contrary to his opinions, was always central and vital in Catholic England, reflecting traditional Catholic doctrine and a unified people. After the Tudors and Luther, however, it was all downhill, accelerating right down to today’s moral tyranny. Dr. Starkey may have personal reasons for wishing it were not so, but English men and women would do better today to follow its traditional patrimony. “Only men to whom the family is sacred will ever have a standard or a status by which to criticize the State. They alone can appeal to something more holy than the gods of the city.”—G.K. Chesterton