In “Keeping Up Appearances,” Patricia Routledge served as a mirror to middle-class society and its petty preoccupations and mores.
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Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Rekindling my Catholic faith in the ‘fourth quarter’ of life
Perhaps it is the hard-won wisdom that comes with age, but the Catholic rituals and practices I once scorned are the same rituals and practices that now usher me into God’s presence, time and time again.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Is there an ‘upside’ to aging? Sister Joyce Rupp thinks so.
Nothing in my life has been as freeing as the realization that not everyone is going to love, like or approve of me.
Posted inFaith, News
Meet the 88-year-old scooter-riding catechist from Singapore who has brought 2,000 people into church
For the past 34 years, Andrew Goh has ridden his scooter around Singapore to bring the Catholic faith to the elderly and housebound.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: A novel about aging, ailing and the inevitability of death
With ‘Featherless,’ her new novel about aging, ailing and the inevitability of death. A. G. Mojtabai joins so many other prominent contemporary fiction writers (Toni Morrison, Phillip Roth, Marilynne Robinson and Margaret Atwood, to name a few) who have explored aging late in their careers.
Posted inFaith, Signs Of the Times
What this Jesuit has learned about faith, mortality and gratitude as I approach my 80th birthday
“I can no longer kid myself that death is a distant reality,” Father Thomas Reese, former editor in chief of America, writes.
Posted inFaith, News
A soccer-loving nun from Brazil is world’s oldest living person at nearly 117
The secret to longevity? Her Catholic faith, Sister Inah Canabarro says.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Today’s senior citizens are the luckiest in history. They’re also the loneliest.
There is a price to be paid for longevity in the current American culture. It is called loneliness.
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Joe Biden made room for the next generation. Baby Boomers should do the same.
The realization that a younger person is more fit, more alert, more capable, more relevant, more suited to the job one has long done is not fun. We baby boomers can relate.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Ageism is making it impossible to fairly judge Joe Biden
We must begin to notice, name and resist the distortions caused by ageism, so that more clear-eyed assessments of President Biden are possible.