I live with chronic pain, and often it seems like no one really understands what this means. Having chronic pain, especially as a young person, can often feel lonely and isolating.
Health and Wellness
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Catholics need better conversations about women’s sexual health. Here are 3 places to start.
Better sexual education can help uphold the dignity of women’s embodied existence and diminish damaging stigmas.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Retirement taught me this hard truth: We are all replaceable.
I have found that there’s more to life than work. That I am replaceable in my job but urgently needed in other roles and relationships in my life.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
No, yoga does not contradict the teachings of Christianity.
Yoga has roots in South Asian religions. That doesn’t mean Catholics should avoid it.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Bishop McElroy instructs priests to decline Covid vaccine exemption requests
San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy has sent a letter saying there is no basis in Catholic teaching to offer a religious exemption for COVID-19 vaccinations.
Posted inInterviews, Politics & Society
‘We need to mandate the vaccine’: Sister Mary Haddad, head of Catholic Health Association, is ready for bold action
Mary Haddad, R.S.M., the C.E.O. and president of the Catholic Health Association, agrees that more must be done now to halt the advance of the Delta variant.
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How Ignatian spirituality enhanced my cognitive behavioral therapy
Talking to God about my struggles came to be a crucial part of my mental health resilience and recovery.
Posted inFaith, News
Pope Francis needs to tell the world who will make his end-of-life decisions
Pope Francis needs to publicly appoint an agent to make decisions about his medical care for when he is no longer able to make them himself. Without this appointment, there will be confusion and division in the church.
Posted inFaith, News
Photos: Pope Francis visits child cancer patients in hospital where he’s recovering from surgery
A smiling and standing pope patted the children on their heads as their parents held them, according to photos of the encounter released by the Vatican.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis suffered a temporary fever, but doctors have found no sign of infection
Pope Francis had a temporary fever last evening, July 7. But routine microbiological examinations and a CT scan of his chest and abdomen carried out this morning came back negative.