Paulist Fr. James Lloyd, 96, is the oldest-living Paulist Father. He lives at the Paulist motherhouse on West 59th Street in New York City, just blocks from where he was raised on Manhattan’s West Side by his vaudevillian parents. Ordained in 1948, he served as a missionary in South Africa and as a professor and administrator at Iona College. From 1958 to 1973, he hosted “Inquiry,” a Sunday morning television program on WNBC in New York.
Anomie: noun an·o·mie \ˈa-nə-mē\ personal unrest, alienation, and uncertainty that comes from a lack of purpose or ideals It was a very hot Saturday afternoon in the middle of August in 1940. I was walking down New York City's Ninth…