By Francis X. Maier, The Catholic Thing - This is a column about the future. But it begins with the past. I’ll explain... I turn 75 in October. As birthdays go, this is a Big One. My wife Suann and I are both blessed with good health, so mortality still feels like a tedious but remote obligation. . .though a lot less remote than a decade ago. People die; all of us. In your 70s, consciously or otherwise, you start to take an inventory of what you’ve seen and learned; what, if anything, you’ve accomplished; what your life has meant.