Pope Leo’s message offers five refreshing ways to see old age — not as an ending, but as a season still full of hope.
Growing older isn’t always easy to talk about. We celebrate birthdays, joke about getting older, congratulate people on retirement and then, almost without noticing, we start treating later life as though it were a long conclusion rather than a chapter still being written.
Pope Leo’s message for this year’s World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly gently challenges that idea. Yes, he encourages younger people to “revive the beautiful custom of visiting
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