Why are we here, and how can we live and die meaningfully? These questions haunt all of us. In this far-ranging guide, Philadelphia Archbishop Emeritus Charles Chaput points to our longing to live and die with meaning as the key to our search for God, our loyalty to nation and kin, our conduct in war, and our service to others. In confronting the chaotic era in which we live, Chaput—a Catholic polymath in the grand old tradition—seeks wisdom from the Psalms and Casablanca, Socrates and Rod Serling, the Iliad and dystopian science fiction.