By: gabriel_syme
My Grandfather, nominally protestant, used to say “It’s hell being old”.I love(d) my Grandfather very much, but on this one I am throwing my lot in with Benedict, I like the cut of his jib much better...
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My father is 91 and had a stroke a few months ago which robbed him of much of his memory. My mother is immobile from arthritis and also had a stroke which has confined her to a nursing home. Old age...
View ArticleBy: GildasWiseman
It is a sad fact that being elderly can be a painful and difficult cross to bear for many people. Other people are not so tried. I am in my sixties and have a lot of pain. My mother is in her eighties...
View ArticleBy: Deodatus
Age, like all aspects of life, is coloured and even made brilliant by the quality of care and community in which it is lived. Without this or in a situation where age is demeaned, or considered by...
View ArticleBy: Jonathan West
Would that Savita Halappanavar had been given the opportunity to grow old. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/14/savita-halappanavar-medically-unnecessary-death
View ArticleBy: KyPerson
Thank you so much for your kind words and my prayers are with you. I am in my sixties and am in excellent health (so far). I am my father’s caregiver and while he is mobile, he can’t tell you what he...
View ArticleBy: Saharbashir
i am very impress about that words by Pope Benedict XVI ( One who makes room for the elderly, makes room for life,” the pope said. “One who welcomes the elderly, welcomes life.”)
View ArticleBy: StCalder
There’s nothing “wonderful” about being old when you have to survive the winter worrying about how you are going to feed yourself and heat your home – something you know NOTHING about, having lived in...
View ArticleBy: catholic reporter
OPEN LETTER TO POPE BENEDICT XVI:- Dear Your Holiness, 1. The transition at the Chinese leadership passed but without congratulations from your office. It was a great pity. The Chinese Communist Party...
View ArticleBy: Sweetjae
Nonsense. Why dont you say that to your Prime Minister and others who are getting paid on money by people less fortunate that themselves.The Catholic Church is the largest charitable organization in...
View ArticleBy: Elle
It will come to us all (or at least those of us who reach old age), and to some (those who are older already) it will come sooner than for others (eg; the young).
View ArticleBy: Arden Forester
I’d say it was “wonderful being old” if you have all your marbles or have lost them completely. My horror is being somewhere in the middle.
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