Dear Friends,  Last week I had the sad honor of presiding over a funeral Mass for a former parishioner. Afterward, I had a few minutes to connect to the funeral director whom I hadn’t seen in some time.   He’d just become Catholic—and he was ecstatic!  He told me his story. While many factors and graces contributed to his conversion, one of the most significant was the way we Catholics deal with Death. “Father,” he said, “having worked in the funeral business for decades, I can tell you, Catholics do it the best. They deal with Death the best.”  When I…