Notice: Function _load_textdomain_just_in_time was called incorrectly. Translation loading for the health-check domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /nas/content/live/brownpelican/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6121

Notice: Function _load_textdomain_just_in_time was called incorrectly. Translation loading for the mfn-opts domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /nas/content/live/brownpelican/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6121
Cultural Elephants in the Retirement Room, by John M. Grondelski – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Cultural Elephants in the Retirement Room, by John M. Grondelski

African Archbishops: ‘They Are Sending Us Missionaries of Evil’, by Jonathan Liedl
August 30, 2024
Outrage as Vatican Drops ‘Before Christ’ for ‘Before Common Era’, by Simon Caldwell
August 30, 2024

Cycle of Human Ages (Zirckel des menschlichen Alters) by Martin Engelbrecht, c. 1750 [Art Library of the Berlin State Museum]. (The Cathlic Thing)

By John M. Grondelski, The Catholic Thing, August 30, 2024

John Grondelski (Ph.D., Fordham) is a former associate dean of the School of Theology, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey. All views herein are exclusively his.

 

As Labor Day approaches, it’s worth thinking about something that is inevitably a phase of everyone’s life: retirement. Discussions about retirement these days often devolve into talk about the pending crisis of Social Security. That’s an important question, of course, but shifting what should be a reflection of the years of life after work into worries about the Social Security system’s economic health masks a deeper issue.

Teresa Ghilarducci’s new book, Work, Retire, Repeat, examines American assumptions about retirement from the perspective of people who are retiring.  Her views are not encouraging: she believes we face the resurgence of a phenomenon many thought the New Deal had banished: elder poverty. ….