This is my body
I’m sitting in the medical school building keeping vigil as the first group of students take their gross anatomy final. They’ll be three sections today on an incredibly cold and…
Med School Mornings
I’ve been avoiding heading back to the gross anatomy lab the past few weeks, not because I was uncomfortable around dead bodies, but more because I was uncomfortable around the…
Would You Donate Your Body to Science?
I turned the corner on my tour of the gross anatomy lab at UB’s med school and there he was: a nude cadaver on a slab of steel in the…
Why Priests Should Wear Their Collars…and why lay ministers need something to identify themselves like it
Earlier this week I went to a campus function with Fr. Pat, the pastor of our North Campus. It’s rare that I see him without his collar on, as he…
Who will anoint the sick and the dying?
Deacon Greg asks this important question…and gives this example from the Washington Post “He said ‘I’m a dying man, and I want to see a priest,'” Mary Baus remembered. “All…
Memento Mori
At every cemetery’s entrance, Fr Pat Keleher tells me, these words are inscribed: Memento Mori (Remember the Dead). Today I went with the good Father over to the medical school…