“Do not hide old age, do not hide the fragility of old age,” Pope Francis said in his Wednesday audience. “This is a teaching for all of us.”

If the elderly, who have seen it all by that time, keep intact their passion for justice, then there is hope for love, and also for faith.

Our shared name is a constant reminder that the work I do today is not on behalf of some shapeless ideal of a better world, but for the world that my children will grow up in.

I feel qualified to tell everyone who has not attempted to nurse an infant to shut it.

“The life of our communities must know how to benefit from the talents and charisms of so many elderly people who are already retired, but who are a wealth to be treasured,” Pope Francis said in his weekly audience.

The story of Eleazar refusing to back down from his faith even in his old age reminds us that faith without action is just hypocrisy.