The coronavirus pandemic has both increased the frequency of deaths and constrained our ability to accompany the dying.
Death and Dying
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Priests are on front lines of COVID-19 as they minister to the sick, dying
A priest in Providence, Rhode Island, reflects on how ministering to patients ill with coronavirus has given him new perspective on faith and ministry.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Only in death can we truly come home
Everything else, even their names, has been taken away from the dead, and they are reserving for their family a spot with the one thing we really need: a view of the mountain.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Where can we find God during a modern-day plague?
In the 20th and 21st centuries, many theologians have been rethinking how we imagine God in the light of revelations of evolution and the revolutionary realizations of spacetime and quantum mechanics. It’s time for us to catch up.
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Life and death: Pandemic forces world to confront its greatest fear
Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, the president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, has said that the pandemic has forced everyone to face the greatest of all fears: the fear of death and dying.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
How the ascension of Christ made room for the church
In his ascension, Christ no longer limits himself in time and space. He is wherever and whenever his church seeks him in the Spirit.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
A look at the lives of priests and women religious lost to the coronavirus
Among the more than 80,000 Americans and 5,000 Canadians who have died from Covid-19 are many Catholic priests, sisters and brothers.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
What Evelyn Waugh saw in America (An Anglo-American romance)
Noted for his acid tongue, Evelyn Waugh hated the United States and its citizens and let them know it. However, he felt more and more drawn to them on repeated visits.
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Why faith and fear of death are not incompatible
As fearful and fearless Christians, we are called to lovingly and cautiously care for our own lives and those of others, acknowledging the startling beauty and value of human life in all stages.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
Jesus is resolute in the face of death. Are we?
Nothing is more certain than death. Yet normally, nothing is more hidden from our view. We do most everything that we can to not look death in the face.