If you should be 80, if it is so, if you are that lucky, then do it well. You can and will be in your 70s for many years -- but cross into your 80s, and you are in a land apart.
The two words “American” and “imperialism” are joining up again thanks to President Trump, two other words that should really be separated. To be accurate, what we are witnessing is “Trump imperialism.”
During a lengthy tenure, unusual in the Seattle archdiocese, Fr. Ryan refurbished St. James, banished guitars at Mass, brought in a women’s’ choir, and GLBTQ activists took the pulpit at the Catholic cathedral to read scripture.