End of Life

Interviews

• An Interview With Darren Henson, PhD

• An Interview with Elvis Joseph Miti, MPH, BAPhil, ADSW

Book Reviews

• Medical Care at the End of Life: A Catholic Perspective by David E. Kelly Reviewed by Rev. Ramil Fajardo

Documents

• POLST (Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment) Paradigm and Form

Articles/Commentaries

• Trump is a ‘big egotistical loser’ says Christian finance expert in stimulus Twitter rant by Bob Smietana Religion News Service

• Pandemic narrows Americans' cultural distance from death and dying by Jesse Remedios National Catholic Reporter

• Meditating on death during a pandemic by Thomas Reese  Religion News Service/National Catholic Reporter

• Looking Death in the Face and Surrendering by Patti Armstrong National Catholic Register

• In calling for end to abortion, marchers also show their support for moms by Joyce Coronel Crux

• Sisters care for home-based patients and the terminally ill in Botswana by Rumbt Chakamra  National Catholic Reporter

• End-of-life care the real battleground of moral theology, author says by Crux Staff Crux

• The Art of Dying. I always said that when my time came I’d want to go fast. But where’s the fun in that? by Peter Schjeldahl  The New Yorker

• Death in the modern age – and how to prepare as a Catholic by Adelaide Mena The Catholic World Report

• Death doulas guide the way for those who face the end of life by Chace Beech Religion News Service

• One mother’s story of love and loss, and the impact of a child’s short life by Charles C. Camosy Crux

• Brother of Pakistani martyr wants global day for ‘basic human rights’ by Inés San Martín Crux

• Mary Potter – the first hospice in NZ celebrates 40 years by CathNews New Zealand

• I Met a Father Once by Dr. Tim Cavanagh  Mission Doctors Association

• More charges of inappropriate touching aimed at Vatican envoy to France by Claire Giangravè Crux

• California initiative aims to transform care for dying by Heather Adamsm   National Catholic Reporter

• New Orleans priest founded first Catholic AIDS hospice by Peter Finney Jr. Catholic News Service/Crux

• Summary Report on End-Of-Life Care (euthanasia) In Québec. by Alex Schadenberg  Catholic Canada

• French doctor who euthanized his patient cannot return to practice by Alex Schadenberg  Catholic Canada

• The true ‘aid in dying’ by Grazie Pozo Christie Angelus

• The Welcome Outreach of Perinatal Hospice by Father Tadeuscz Pacholczyk  Echoes/The Boston Pilot

• Time to Go by Guy Kennaway Commentary by Guy Kennaway The Irish Times

• Ethics and end-of-life care: Embracing the mystery by Fr. Patrick Norris, O.P. National Association of Catholic Chaplains

• Tales of a Deathwife.  With the End in Mind

by Mary McDonough Commonweal

• United Methodist Church and Vatican issue joint declaration supporting palliative care at the end of life by Religion News Service

• Nutrition and Hydration at the End of Life by Fr. Jose I. Lavastida   Catholic Culture. org

• Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There by Timothy O'Brien, SJ The Jesuit Post

• CCI offers updated guidance on advance directive for end of life by Catholic Conference of Illinois

• Life in the Long Run by Father Joseph Chamblain, OSM

• Death of John Paul II and the basic human care for the sick and the dying. by Velez G JR. Ethics Med.

• Care of the dying: a Catholic perspective. Part I, Cultural context: a CHA document challenges care givers to define appropriate care for the dying. by Health Prog

Videos

Hanson Hospice Center – Caren and Cara’s Story