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On life’s ‘off-ramp,’ Archbishop Chaput offers timely thoughts
This is the cover of the book “Things Worth Dying For: Thoughts on a Life Worth Living” by retired Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia. (CNS photo/courtesy Henry Holt and Company)
By Laura Bramon Hassan • Catholic News Service • Posted April 9, 2021
“Things Worth Dying For: Thoughts on a Life Worth Living” by Charles J. Chaput. Henry Holt & Company (New York, 2021). 272 pp, $25.99.
“Memento mori” is in vogue these days, from death doulas to funereal composting to hipster reconsiderations of the industrial death complex. For modern pagans, the well-branded body is a sensible starting point, boosting Instagram feeds curated to assure followers that death can be a fashionable and coolly macabre experience.