Most of us will not write our obituaries. We will not be the ones who put the final spin on the story. And that is O.K.
Death and Dying
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This November, pray for the migrants who have died because of ICE
This November, we should pray for those who have died in deaths related to our immigration policy and enforcement, whether in detention centers, on the streets or while driving their cars.
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Harry Houdini died on Halloween. Of course.
Houdini, the famous escape artist, died on Halloween a century ago. His legend is a complicated but strikingly All-American one.
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What three spooky saint stories can teach us about the afterlife
These tales of the dead returning to the living remind us that those who have gone before us are not beyond the reach of our love.
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First suicide memorial by a US archdiocese signals a compassionate shift by the Catholic Church
The archdiocese says the “At Peace” memorial at Queen of Heaven Catholic Cemetery is the first of its kind by any U.S. archdiocese.
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In France, Pope Leo emerged as the global voice for ‘right to life’ of the disabled and vulnerable
The pope’s defense of life touched on some of Europe’s most contentious social questions, yet with his humble and measured manner, his message hit differently than the “culture wars” of decades past.
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Review: Memory-keepers, death and grief in ‘Brother Epistles’
We think of letters as a two-way form of communication: They go to and fro in the world, from one writer to the reader, who becomes the writer of the next letter. But sometimes we write letters that are not returned in a traditional way. In Brother Epistles: A Sister’s Memoir, Shanda McManus does just […]
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Illinois diocese bans eulogies and wakes in church before funeral Mass
“The eulogy makes the person being praised the main focus of attention. The homily and the words of remembrance have God as the primary focus,” Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki of Springfield said.
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When ‘thy will be done’ means saying goodbye to someone you love
To ask God’s will to be done was to agree to lose my Nonny. But I forced myself to say it anyway.
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Haitian youth’s apparent suicide ‘a death of despair’ after TPS Haiti ends, says archbishop
Pierre Damas Bel, a 20-year-old student on scholarship in his first semester at Dayton’s Wright State University, was pronounced dead at the scene after walking into traffic on Interstate 70 in Springfield, Ohio.