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Outliving Myself: On Finding I Have Vascular Dementia

June 22, 2021

Russell E. Saltzman remembers a funeral for a parishioner in his days as a Lutheran pastor, "A nice fellow," he writes, "with a plain garden variety dementia, not Alzheimer's, not the sexy one everybody knows about." He says the fellow "shrank in upon himself, became less and less of himself, shriveling and his world with him." He would sit, quietly alone, as the end approached. "Where was his memory?" Russ wonders. "Where was he?"

Baby on life support for 25 days recovers after father puts Padre Pio relic on bed

August 30, 2016

Caitlin Dooley’s parents thought there was no hope – but now they say her astounding recovery coincided with the relic being brought to hospital

Terminally-ill priest dies two months after his ordination

July 01, 2015

Fr Salvatore Mellone, who was ordained two years early, died on Monday