Skull art depicting Memento Mori continued to be popular in Europe for millennia. For instance, archaeologists have found a ...

Christian monks who withdrew into the wilderness — practiced the strange and beautiful discipline of reminding one another of their mortality: “Brother, remember your death.” This was not meant to be ...

DENVER, Colorado – There’s an old Latin phrase that’s suddenly new again – at least in the realm of Catholic Twitter™. The resurgence of the the Latin phrase “memento mori” (remember your death) is ...

Sr. Theresa Aletheia Noble, FSP, has had an interesting Twitter project for the last year and a half: she has kept a small (ceramic) skull on her desk, and has been tweeting daily meditations on death ...

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On a chilly November evening, there wasn’t much for a 6-year-old to do in a small three-room apartment five flights above Bronx streets. So I sat on the sofa, gazing at the torchiere lamp. The lamp ...