“Never has there been a greater untruth, and never will there be, than ‘life begins at forty.’ I cannot understand why anyone whose vision is broader than the years and whose hopes are higher than an ivy vine should value age above youth. Anyone with the vaguest understanding of either the world of nature or the world of grace knows that life does not begin at forty. There are other introductions of life than the opening of the womb, either the womb of the great portals of flesh or the womb of the baptismal font – the one begetting us as children of humans, the other as children of God. Religion, by its very nature, has something to do with birth and, therefore, with youth. Doesn’t all religious history reveal that the closer we get to God the younger we become and, therefore, the more like children? Thus, it might well be that as we grow old in years we grow young in God.” Archbishop Fulton Sheen (In the Fullness of Time)