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Let your conscience be your guide: 7 steps to making good end-of-life decisions

Thursday, October 15, 2009
Let your conscience be your guide: 7 steps to making good end-of-life decisions
Making decisions about end-of-life care can feel emotionally and spiritually overwhelming, especially when the decisions are for someone else.

Sometimes I feel like a motherless child: Dealing with death years later

Monday, November 2, 2009
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child: Dealing with death years later
Absence makes the heart yearn for a father's ear and a mother's lap.

Sometimes I feel like a motherless child: Dealing with death years later

Monday, November 2, 2009
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child: Dealing with death years later
Absence makes the heart yearn for a father's ear and a mother's lap.

Voices from the debate: The church on end-of-life care

Thursday, October 15, 2009
Voices from the debate: The church on end-of-life care
While Catholic moral teaching on medical treatment has been in place for hundreds of years, the last three decades have seen increased development and debate.

Deathbed confusion: Struggling with decisions at the end of life

Thursday, October 15, 2009
Deathbed confusion: Struggling with decisions at the end of life
When it comes to caring for the terminally ill, Catholics sometimes struggle to decide when enough is enough.

Deathbed confusion: Struggling with decisions at the end of life

Thursday, October 15, 2009
Deathbed confusion: Struggling with decisions at the end of life
When it comes to caring for the terminally ill, Catholics sometimes struggle to decide when enough is enough.

Learning experience

Monday, August 17, 2009
Learning experience
Catholic schools are filling in the teacher gap with new grads looking for a challenge.

Six spiritual tasks of aging

Monday, July 20, 2009
1. Letting goThis is the period when we evaluate everything we have come to know about life and look for a dimension above the things of this world, for the sake of what is yet to come. The search means, then, that we strip ourselves of whatever it is we have accrued until this time in order to give ourselves wholly to the birthing of the person within. Into this part of life we travel light. 2.

Senior moments

Monday, July 20, 2009
Senior moments
The spiritual side of getting older.

Love is patient

Sunday, November 16, 2008
Love is patient
When I bought her the valentine, she smiled, but I knew the card was more for me than her. She didn't really know what it said. I read the message aloud, and she smiled again. I had to be satisfied with that.