Her voice disappeared, leaving an unrelieved haunting silence that signified the end of Susan Broxton’s earthly life.

In the life of every long-lived man and woman, the future flows into promise, then fades into peril and panic.

I love this man who expressed his love with deeds and whose last deed will likely be his slipping away from me.

"In a time of so much darkness, so much pain, you will leave here today enfolded in the love of Jesus and the love of this community."

St. Francis didn’t just serve the poor and love animals. He taught us how to die well, too.

When the suicide monster invades the psyche, more than kindness is required. More than toughing it out.