Tag: Grandparents

This World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly, we are asked by the Holy Father to turn our attention especially to those among us who grow old alone. As Francine and Byron Pirola write, Christians have a special duty to accompany each other as we age.

Meeting with thousands of Italian grandparents and their children and grandchildren, Pope Francis insisted repeatedly, "Love makes us better."

Pope Francis has invited 6,000 grandparents and their grandchildren to a meeting titled "The caress and the smile" on 27 April to tackle throwaway culture.

I work in an aged care home and, while many of the people there have frequent visits from members of their family, many others see their children only rarely, even though they live in the same city. This disturbs me. How should we view this?

Dear Father, you wrote that we grandparents should not baptise our grandchildren when their parents have not had it done. But what can we do then? I really feel for these beautiful children growing up without any faith.

My married children do not practise their faith and, in spite of the encouragement of my wife and me, they have not had their...

We were blessed to become “brand new” grandparents in our mid-40s with the arrival of our beautiful granddaughter Mila. This sense of newness, however, also brought with it a few questions of self-identity.

From passing on faith traditions to offering a safety valve for the “pressure cooker” of family life, Dr Ron and Mavis Pirola being grandparents.

  As the World Day of Grandparents and the Elderly draws near, Sydney mums praise their parents Parenting is a challenging gig, but it’s certainly made...

In a message for the World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly, Pope promotes memory, prayer.

The dynamic between the generations is vital, says pontiff.

In Australia, two-thirds of parents are both working and raising young children. And many of those families are turning to grandparents to fill the...