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Writing about Catholic scientists and ideas that feed my own Catholic fiction

Category: death

Shine like the stars forever…

July 28, 2026 catholicfictioncatholicscienceLeave a comment

Michele Bourdeau was 81 when she died Sunday, July 26. Explaining my relationship to her is either very simple or very complicated. But dusty today ... She was married to my brother for seven months. Then he died. Now, fifty-eight years later, she has died. I have been going through emails I had from her [...]

Posted in babies, death, family

A very manly Heaven? End of year thoughts

December 31, 2024 catholicfictioncatholicscience1 Comment

I've been thinking about parts of the Divine Comedy recently. My brain circles past various topics over time, checking in and moving on. Without going back to read it, I started thinking about Dante's picture of Paradise. He begins with a scientific discussion about the composition of the moon. (This was a hot topic in [...]

Posted in Dante, death

Obituary for a friend from Mass

August 6, 2024 catholicfictioncatholicscienceLeave a comment

... Call me and bid me come to you ... I wrote about that prayer a few weeks ago.** It became important again Sunday. I’m going to a funeral this morning. A lady I’ll call ‘Marion’ died last week. She was ninety-nine years old. Her daughter stopped me in the communion line Sunday morning to [...]

Posted in church people, death, family
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