This weekend, a C.D.C. panel will likely decide which group should get the Covid-19 vaccine next. Thousands of lives hang in the balance, writes the Catholic ethicist Charles Camosy.
Death and Dying
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Why does God allow suffering? A meditation
Why is it this way? It is the child’s most basic question, dealing with the most bewildering thing of all.
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If you value the elderly, you should be alarmed by Biden’s Covid task force appointment
Dr. Emanuel is certainly a well-credentialed medical expert. But his dismissive attitudes toward the elderly and disabled ought to be disqualifying.
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In Belize, death is a part of life. That doesn’t mean it’s easy.
During my first half-decade as a priest, I buried a total of three people. In the last two years here in Belize, that number is well over a hundred—and it has reminded me of love’s eternalness.
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A church in Rome has over 3,000 skeletons on display. They give a chilling—but hopeful—reminder about death
All Souls is not just a remembrance of those we have lost, whether to death or to time. All Souls is a remembrance that beyond this world, there is more to come.
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Why do Catholics pray for the souls of the dead?
The notion that our prayers can aid the dead as well as the living has always been a part of the Christian faith.
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Explainer: Where did Halloween come from—and should Catholics celebrate it?
Halloween’s roots lie deep in pre-Christian rituals—but also in the long heritage of All Saints Day.
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Día de los Muertos is a celebration—even during a pandemic.
For those who have lost loved ones to Covid-19, celebrations will not be the same this year. But they will still remember the souls who have passed on to new life.
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The death-haunted music of Phoebe Bridgers
Phoebe Bridgers’s new album ‘Punisher’ begs the listener to embrace the inevitability of death, not run away from it.
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Pope Francis: It is impossible to bear the tragic loss of a child without God’s help
“Every tragic death brings with it great pain. But when it snatches (the lives of) five adolescents and a young mother, it is immense, unbearable without God’s help,” he told members of the victims’ families Sept. 12.