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Young at heart
Article Author: Patty Gayes Little kids and old folks find comfort in each other’s company at an intergenerational center. At age 3, Annie was everyone’s darling, an outgoing little imp who amused the...
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Assisted Living
Author: Kathy SaundersArticle Author: Kathy Saunders The decline of a parent is not just a physical and financial challenge, it's a spiritual one as well.Kathy Bingham knew she had reached midlife when...
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Author: Virginia Curran HoffmanArticle Author: Virginia Curran HoffmanThere are many passages in the parent-child relationship: birth, weaning from the breast or bottle, preschool or kindergarten, high...
View Article"Don't miss the second half"
Author: The editors interview Father Richard Rohr, O.F.M.Article Author: A U.S. Catholic interviewAs he's entered middle age, Franciscan Father Richard Rohr, who has been riding the spirituality...
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Love is patient
Article Author: Robert Reilly When I bought her the valentine, she smiled, but I knew the card was more for me than her. She didn't really know what it said. I read the message aloud, and she smiled...
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Deathbed confusion: Struggling with decisions at the end of life
Article Author: Heather Grennan Gary When it comes to caring for the terminally ill, Catholics sometimes struggle to decide when enough is enough.Last December Tina and Jeff Jankowski were celebrating...
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Sometimes I feel like a motherless child: Dealing with death years later
Article Author: Maryann McCullough Absence makes the heart yearn for a father's ear and a mother's lap.It is in the natural order of things: Parents die and their children live on after them. If it...
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Internal medicine: End of life ethics with Dr. Daniel Sulmasy, O.F.M.
Article Author: A U.S. Catholic interview The debate about death with dignity needs the wisdom of the Catholic spiritual tradition, says this physician and bioethicist.If you've never had to make an...
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Put in a good word
Article Author: Patrick Gallagher If a eulogy sounds to good to be true, it probably is. Putting on rose-colored glasses to look at a loved one’s life, however, might be just what we need for...
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Go ahead, be a burden to your adult children
Article Author: Patrick Lynch Parents put a great deal of effort into caring for their kids. When the time comes, it’s OK to let them return the favor.My father came home from his service in the...
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Empty nest? Now what? Tips for maintaining a marriage after the kids have gone
Article Author: Wendy DonahueThis story accompanies The 25-year-itch: Empty nesters and the second half of marriage.)David and Claudia Arp, founders of Marriage Alive and authors of The Second Half of...
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First aid for the second half of marriage
Article Author: Wendy Donahue(This story accompanies The 25-year-itch: Empty nesters and the second half of marriage.)One way to sustain a marriage through the second half is to keep generating life as...
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The 25-year itch: Empty nesters and the second half of marriage
Article Author: Wendy Donahue Divorce has doubled for couples over 50. Empty nesters share tales from the brink.Even before Dick and Irene Reimbold’s younger daughter left for college, they were living...
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Do you have faith in your vote?
Article Author: Heather Grennan Gary Catholics are valued voters for the candidates because they take their faith and their role in democracy seriously. In a 2008 U.S. Catholic survey, though, readers...
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