Resources of finance and faith lauded at founding of Grandparents Association

FINANCIAL resources of grandparents – the ‘bank of grandma and granddad’ – is helping many families through tough economic times, the Primate of All-Ireland has said.

Speaking at the foundation of the Catholic Grandparents Association (CGA) at Knock Shrine, Co Mayo, yesterday Cardinal Sean Brady said the resources of grandparents was “critical to the pace of our economic recovery”. He added that by passing on the faith, grandparents could protect their grandchildren against “something more dangerous than swine flu” – the “deadly danger of despair”.

More than 14,000 people turned out for the national grandparents’ pilgrimage, at which the new national association was launched.