When a frustrated Mayor of Minneapolis was asked why he was not running for another term as Mayor, he didn't talk about rising crime in Minneapolis, budget problems, police problems, ethnic stress. He replied, ''The root of all our problems as American cities today is the breakdown of the family; what's happening between parents and their kids is killing this country.''

It's All Saints in the Chapel and Parents' Weekend in the University. All Saints is when we acknowledge our debt to those saints who have gone before us and shown us the way to faith. This day we acknowledge: I am not here, in Christ, on my own. None of us is a self-made Christian. We're all debtors. Somebody had to tell us, witness to us, live the faith before us, or we wouldn't be here. Thanks to the saints, our parents …