Maureen Dowd says she's a Catholic, but after reading this column, it's hard to understand anything about her faith. Profoundly depressing, it deals with old age (life, really) as just a process of gradual physical degeneration -- nothing more than waiting for death.

I don't think the Pope saw old age and infirmity the way that Maureen Dowd does. One is moved to great sympathy for for her. If this is really the way she sees the world, and life, no wonder she's so bitter so often.