Recomposition could become a legal third option for after-death care by 2020.
Death and Dying
Posted inFaith, Jesuitical
Thinking about your death will make you a better Catholic
This week, we talk with Sister Theresa Aletheia, the founder of the Memento Mori Project.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
My friend suffered silently for years. I didn’t know the depth of her pain until it was too late.
Her voice disappeared, leaving an unrelieved haunting silence that signified the end of Susan Broxton’s earthly life.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
Of all God’s creatures, why do only humans worry about the future?
In the life of every long-lived man and woman, the future flows into promise, then fades into peril and panic.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
My dad showed me love through deeds. Now that he has Alzheimer’s, it’s my turn.
I love this man who expressed his love with deeds and whose last deed will likely be his slipping away from me.
Posted inFaith, News
After New York Limousine crash, priest urges families to put trust in Jesus
“In a time of so much darkness, so much pain, you will leave here today enfolded in the love of Jesus and the love of this community.”
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Transitus: the little-known celebration of St. Francis Assisi’s death
St. Francis didn’t just serve the poor and love animals. He taught us how to die well, too.
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For those thinking about suicide, prayers help—but are not enough.
When the suicide monster invades the psyche, more than kindness is required. More than toughing it out.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
Christ is our bread of life—but we still must feed one another
Others are the table Christ sets for us.
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Dementia didn’t rob me of my mom. It revealed her truest self.
Your mom’s gone. That’s what people told me during the last year of my mother’s life when she suffered from dementia.