Learning a lesson from defeatist obituaries
Catholic News Service
The first Monday of November is yet another way that Catholics are able to show our way to the world — by celebrating death.
This is indeed countercultural.
In today’s climate, death is a situation to escape, a topic to be avoided.
All Souls’ Day is more than a piety: It is the public recognition that we not only accept death but welcome it as the inevitable end of our earthly pilgrimage.
Current culture does not agree. Consider the language used in obituaries in one edition of a daily newspaper:
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