Why is it this way? It is the child’s most basic question, dealing with the most bewildering thing of all.

Dr. Emanuel is certainly a well-credentialed medical expert. But his dismissive attitudes toward the elderly and disabled ought to be disqualifying.

During my first half-decade as a priest, I buried a total of three people. In the last two years here in Belize, that number is well over a hundred—and it has reminded me of love’s eternalness.

All Souls is not just a remembrance of those we have lost, whether to death or to time. All Souls is a remembrance that beyond this world, there is more to come.

The notion that our prayers can aid the dead as well as the living has always been a part of the Christian faith.

Halloween's roots lie deep in pre-Christian rituals—but also in the long heritage of All Saints Day.