ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT FROM NORTH MACEDONIA - Pope Francis told reporters May 7 he had been kept informed about Jean Vanier's failing health and had phoned him a week before his death.
WASHINGTON - The death of Jean Vanier, whose ministry helped improve the lives of developmentally disabled people in dozens of countries, drew prayers and words of condolence from church leaders around the world.
A year later, it’s still ’Humboldt Strong’
It’s been a year since a nation was united in grief, waking up early one spring Saturday morning to the news that a team of young men pursuing their hockey dreams was torn apart in a horrific crash that would claim 16 members of the Humboldt Broncos’ family and leave 13 others with various physical and emotional scars they will carry a lifetime.
Memento mori: ‘Remember your death’
Speaking Out: When it's hard to accept God's plan
Winter is here and I’m excited for the Advent season, but everyone who knows me knows that I love summer and I start counting down the days way too early.
Increase in suicide among Caribbean youth trouble counselors
How to ensure your Will speaks for you
Have you ever wondered what would it be like to “speak” from the grave and tell your loved ones how you would like things handled after you die?
Capacity is a vital factor in making a Will
Cremation becoming a popular option for Catholic burials
When Amy Profenna recently met with a lawyer to update her Will, one of the questions she was asked was if she wanted to be cremated.
Mary Marrocco: Living and loving in the face of death
“I have been half in love with easeful Death.” So wrote poet John Keats two centuries ago. For him it was sorrowful, yet his succinct sentence could well describe our current perspective in this country.
The many ways of giving
An estate gift to your parish or favourite charity can be your way of expressing what was important in your life. What follows are some of the ways people choose to remember charities in their estate plan.
New federal government rules to monitor euthanasia and assisted suicide are opaque and weak at a time when legally induced deaths are rising at alarming levels, warn several organizations.
Can a doctor-assisted death be ‘natural’ and ‘suicide’?
Whenever a doctor assists in a suicide in Ontario by injecting a patient with chemicals to stop the heart, it is recorded on the death certificate as a natural death.