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By Regis Martin, National Catholic Register, March 10, 2026
Regis Martin, S.T.D., is a professor of theology and a faculty associate with the Veritas Center for Ethics in Public Life at Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio. He podcasts at In Search Of The Still Point and is the author of Looking for Lazarus: A Preview of the Resurrection. His most recent book, published by Sophia Institute Press, is March to Martyrdom: Seven Letters on Sanctity from St. Ignatius of Antioch.
If it is ‘certain that we shall not be here for long,’ as Blaise Pascal says, ‘and uncertain whether we shall be here even one hour,’ then what lies beyond death matters more than anything else.
Francis Bergsma, a 17-year-old boy whose father, John Bergsma, is a widely known professor of biblical theology at Franciscan University in Steubenville, died Feb. 28 following a nearly two-year battle with brain cancer, leaving both his family and friends stricken with grief and incomprehension. Why must someone so young and so dear to so many be made to suffer for so long? Where is the justice in that?
There isn’t any. At least not by any human reckoning. But because we live in a fallen world, a world infected by sin and disease, such things, while certainly shocking and deeply dislocating, ought not to come as a surprise. The serpent has long since insinuated its poison into the fruit. Death remains the most banal and predictable of all happenings that will, ineluctably, carry us all off in the end. You can take that to the mortuary. No one gets out alive. …
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