Thank you, grandmas and grandpas

Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan writes in the "Herald of Hope" column in the December 15, 2005 Catholic Herald on a 1973 visit to an Orthodox monastery in Russia.

We had a fascinating conversation with the monks, and asked them, since public worship and any organized religious instruction were outlawed, how the faith was being passed on to children. The monks looked at us somewhat flabbergasted: "What do you mean? The faith is passed on to children here the same way it is handed on anywhere: by grandparents."

I recall my grandparents going to daily Mass in their Oldsmobile. But what if there were a society in which young people valued nothing associated with their grandparents' generation? Would the faith go the way of the Oldsmobile?