In Latin American immigrant communities, lay faith leaders adapt a ritual of mourning that builds community amid isolation.

I am told that at the last moment, my mother sat up, looked towards heaven and fell back to her pillow. I chose to believe Mary came to her, took her and is with her still.

Washington, Colorado and Oregon are now among the U.S. states that have legalized the process of converting human bodies into soil, a procedure the Catholic Church said fails to show “respect for the body of the deceased.”

My grief did not unfold neatly or in any predictable way as the “stages of grief” might suggest.

My dad had always been a God-like figure to me.

The robotic narrator of Kazuo Ishiguro's new novel takes us into a dystopian U.S. future.