From 1997: While I am eager to live, I am also eager to take the journey when God calls me.
Death and Dying
Posted inFaith, Last Take
U.S. Catholics don’t think much about life after death. Here’s why we should.
The church’s doctrine of the last things underscores the mystery we face as we ponder death.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: To hell and back
A comprehensive new book takes us all the way through Hell.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Composting may offer the latest option in green burials
Recomposition could become a legal third option for after-death care by 2020.
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.