Category Archives: Wise men and women
A model of a woman that we all should know about Camouflage Angel’ Spends Last Moments With U.S. Combat Casualties The emergency-room trauma call and the medical staff’s immediate action upon his arrival is only a memory to her now; sitting quietly at the bedside of her brother-in-arms, she carefully takes his hand, thanking him [...]
The Anchoress on Had enough Michael Jackson yet? The Jackson death has been spectacle, spectacle, spectacle, a freak show long on performance and short on real feeling – not unlike Jackson’s concert extravaganzas – and that makes the non-stop coverage seem completely out of balance and, really, kind of insane. I wonder if that’s because [...]
Headline stolen from James Taranto In recession economy, students look to funeral careers “They’re looking for something stable, a career that will last them,” said Michael Mastellone, chairman of the Nassau program. “And there will always be work out there.” Among the recent inquiries Mastellone fielded was one from a retired police officer who at [...]
A poem by Mary Oliver When Death Comes When death comes like the hungry bear in autumn; when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse To buy me, and snaps the purse shut; When death comes Like the measles-pox; When death comes Like an iceberg between the shoulder blades, I want [...]
Peter Kreeft on the Three Philosophies of Life There are ultimately only three philosophies of life, and each one is represented by one of the following books of the Bible: 1. Life as vanity: Ecclesiastes 2. Life as suffering: Job 3. Life as love: Song of Songs – The reason these are the only three [...]
Joseph Bottum quite movingly announced the death of Fr. Neuhaus. Our great, good friend is gone. Fr. Richard John Neuhaus slipped away January 8, shortly before 10 o’clock, at the age of seventy-two. He never recovered from the weakness that sent him to the hospital the day after Christmas, caused by a series of side [...]
Suffering and diminishment are not the greatest of evils…” “… but are normal ingredients in life, especially in old age. They are to be accepted as elements of a full human existence. As I become increasingly paralyzed and unable to speak, I can identify with the many paralytics and mute persons in the Gospels, grateful [...]
As heirs to Western civilization, our common legacy as is so vast and so great, we can not take it all in. At best, we dip into it from time to time, sometimes as a citizen when we vote or speak against the government without any fear ; sometimes as believers when we gather [...]
The Homily on All Souls Day from the Preacher to the Papal Household, Father Raniero Cantalamessa Faith doesn’t free believers from the anguish of having to die, but it soothes us with hope. A preface of the Mass (for All Souls’ Day) says: “If the certainty of having to die saddens us, the hope of [...]
Dean Barnett, a well-known conservative columnist and blogger, died too young at 41 but lived longer than he expected since he was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis. Living with a fatal disease can embitter one or make one more joyful for the life still left to live. Tributes around the blogosphere attest to Dean’s joy and [...]
