When death seems random and God seems silent, only the Cross of Christ reveals why

Larry Chapp, National Catholic Register

Friday, November 14, 2025

Our culture does not like to focus on death. Lacking a substantively real faith in God, the modern world vacillates between a nihilistic atheism that views death as annihilation and a vague spiritualism that affirms the possibility of life after death but leaves it so vaporously thin that it scarcely can bear any great hope. It also creates no real connection between the next life and this one, beyond a few sentimental notions of being “rewarded” somehow in the next life for being a “good person” in the here and now. But Christianity is different from all other religions. The death of Christ and what it accomplishes is central to our faith.