"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.

Others are the table Christ sets for us.

Your mom’s gone. That’s what people told me during the last year of my mother’s life when she suffered from dementia.

Pope Francis attended the funeral Mass and presided over the final commendation of Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, the French cardinal who led the Vatican's outreach to other religions and who had announced to the world his election as pope five years ago.