"Eternal You" looks at the industry of the digital afterlife. Filmmakers Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck interview CEOs and others behind companies such as one that claims to simulate a text-based chat with the deceased.
Soul Seeing: Why is it that, for so long, I've been captivated by a 1986 Van Morrison song and by a scene in the 1993 movie "Little Buddha"? Both works urge me to be comfortable in my place in God's fabric.
Book Review: Published 20 years ago, Don DeLillo's The Body Artist is a moving, at times exquisite book about the strangeness of grief — a uniquely apt novel for our protracted moment of collective sadness.
Perspective: When dealing with miscarriage and stillbirth, the work of a doula changes. Many people do not know how to grieve these losses, or if it is even OK to grieve a baby they may have never seen.
Euthanasia legislation is headed for the Spanish Senate and, if passed, it would be a defeat for human dignity and would affirm a self-centered view of life that proposes death as a solution to one's problems, the Spanish bishops' conference said.
Authorities found the body of Robert Chiles, a member of St. Joseph Parish, Aug. 18 after a search of the Detroit River where he and Fr. Stephen Rooney, St. Joseph's pastor, went missing Aug. 16 after a boat capsized.
Soul Seeing: Days before Elizabeth's funeral, my wife "saw" Elizabeth skipping by and waving. At her burial, I heard her voiceless voice say, "I'm not underground, Daddy."
Priestly Diary: During this coronavirus shutdown, I have been working on projects at home, like my "death box." Not an attractive name, but a necessary part of planning for death in our culture.