Ben Sasse on Facing Mortality: ‘Death Is Evil, but Death Doesn’t Get the Final Word’
The former senator now battling stage-4 cancer, who has always been a defender of Catholics, talks about death and ways ‘to redeem the time.’
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Pope Leo XIV Criticizes Transhumanism: ‘Death Is Not Opposed to Life’
The Holy Father asserted that only the resurrection of Christ ‘is capable of illuminating the mystery of death to its full extent.’
What an Obscure 2006 Foreword Might Tell Us About Pope Leo XIV
COMMENTARY: This text reveals a man thoroughly drenched in Augustine’s theology and spirituality, in particular his understanding of the ‘last things’ — and our greatest hope.
Is ‘Dying Without Fear’ Possible? Death Should Not Be Our Greatest Fear
Watch this important docudrama on EWTN.
A Pair of Promissory Notes Signed by Christ
Here, it seems, is the flash point of the crisis we now face; indeed, we’ve been facing it for a very long time.
We Are Not at Home in the World
We are finite beings, but our longings are infinite, and we long for an infinite God who loves us infinitely.
God Made Catholicism a Businesslike Religion
COMMENTARY: The Church was designed to last. That’s why the practice of the faith can look so businesslike to outside observers.
Life Is Good, and God Wants the Good to Last Forever
‘God created man for incorruption,’ says the Book of Wisdom, ‘and made him in the image of his own eternity.’
Death Is Not the End
“One short sleep past, we wake eternally/And death shall be no more; death thou shalt die.” —John Donne, Sonnet X
St. John Henry Newman on Heaven, Happiness and Holiness
Are you prepared to be glad in paradise?
