A Time To DieNicolas Diat Behind monastery walls, men of God spend their lives preparing for the passage of death. Best-selling French author Nicolas Diat set out to find what their deaths can reveal about the greatest mystery faced by...

SufferingWhat Every Catholic Should KnowMark Giszczak Just as Job was tried, all of us are tested by suffering. It comes to us in many different forms: grief about the past, pain in the present, and sadness about what might have...

Insights on HeavenFrom Mother AngelicaThe Kingdom of Heaven is a place of indescribable beauty, where all pain, suffering, and tears cease, and the Triune God sits on His Throne surrounded by magnificent angels proclaiming and blessing His Holy Name without...

Grieving Together: A Couple's Journey through MiscarriageYou might feel, in the days and weeks after a miscarriage, like the Lord is anything but close.Laura and Franco Fanucci understand. After struggling with infertility, they miscarried their third child in the first...

By Karen Edmisten W.C. Fields reportedly quipped as he flipped through a Bible on his deathbed: "I'm looking for loopholes."Is a last minute conversion really a loophole? Is it fair to the faithful who have "toed the line" their whole...

Now And At The Hour Of Our Death Making Moral Decisions at the End of Life by: Nikolas T. Nikas and Bruce W. Green This book addresses important moral questions people commonly face when they or their loved ones experience...

A Companion for Everyday CopingBy: Harold Ivan SmithLosing a loved one is wrenching, and, in times of grief, wordy reading on healing offers little solace. In ABCs of Healthy Grieving, nationally recognized grief educator Harold Ivan Smith combines over twenty-five...

A Study of LoveBy Paul ChalouxHeaven's Currency: A Study of Love is the third book of Dr. Paul Chaloux's best-selling trilogy on the great mysteries of life (along with Why All People Suffer and Dying without Fear). This eye-opening work...

Rosary Meditations and Spiritual Support for Persons with Alzheimer's, Their Caregivers and Loved OnesBy: Holy Cross Family MinistriesForeword by: John Phalen, C.S.C.The Rosary has been an important prayer tool for centuries, a source of tranquility and meditative peace. Praying the...

Children Whose Short Lives Point Us to Christby: Austin RuseBe inspired by faithful heroism of the littlest souls It is said that children learn what they live. But children also teach the adults in their lives lessons on subjects such...

How to write a Spiritual Will...by: Mary Petrosky, F.M.M.Foreword by: Thomas LynchAfterword by: F. Edward Coughlin, O.F.M. In the first book of its kind specifically for Catholics, theologian, spiritual director, and social worker Sr. Mary Petrosky, F.M.M., shows how a...

Aquinas on the Last Four ThingsKevin Vost, Psy. D. We often think of death as the end, but it's really just the beginning of eternal life. Death, judgment, heaven, and hell often called the Four Last Things are both awe-inspiring...