“Yes, some are H.I.V.-positive, but what is that?” asks Sister Agie. “They are precious children; they have their whole life before them.”

So many of Cornell’s songs are filled with Christological and sacramental imagery.

Finding faith after an unexpected death.

Two Irish-American writers engage questions of mortality with the sense of humor proper to a wake.

Life, death and the home country

When my cell phone rings early one sunny fall morning, I reach for it groggily, see that the call is from my mother and know that whatever she is about to say will be heartbreaking. I am still in bed in my pajamas, and my mom tells me that Marian Elizabeth has been born. Everything else my mother sa