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Put in a good word

Saturday, November 12, 2011
By Online Editor
Put in a good word
If a eulogy sounds to good to be true, it probably is. Putting on rose-colored glasses to look at a loved one’s life, however, might be just what we need for resolution.Recently I attended the wake and funeral for the father of a friend. At the wake, the children—now all middle-aged—took turns talking about their dad.
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Go ahead, be a burden to your adult children

Monday, February 27, 2012
By Online Editor
Go ahead, be a burden to your adult children
Parents put a great deal of effort into caring for their kids. When the time comes, it’s OK to let them return the favor.My father came home from his service in the Marines in the South Pacific to marry the redheaded girl of his dreams, whom he’d met at St. Francis De Sales in the fifth grade.
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Internal medicine: End of life ethics with Dr. Daniel Sulmasy, O.F.M.

Thursday, October 14, 2010
By Online Editor
Internal medicine: End of life ethics with Dr. Daniel Sulmasy, O.F.M.
The debate about death with dignity needs the wisdom of the Catholic spiritual tradition, says this physician and bioethicist.
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Sometimes I feel like a motherless child: Dealing with death years later

Monday, November 2, 2009
By goodwink
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.
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Voices from the debate: The church on end-of-life care

Thursday, October 15, 2009
By goodwink
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.
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Let your conscience be your guide: 7 steps to making good end-of-life decisions

Thursday, October 15, 2009
By goodwink
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.
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Deathbed confusion: Struggling with decisions at the end of life

Thursday, October 15, 2009
By goodwink
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.
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Deathbed confusion: Struggling with decisions at the end of life

Thursday, October 15, 2009
By goodwink
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.
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Six spiritual tasks of aging

Monday, July 20, 2009
By goodwink
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.
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Senior moments

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