He expressed his remorse in remarks to parishioners a week after the Dec. 8 funeral of Maison Hullibarger, which received extensive media coverage. His remarks were released Dec. 17 by the Detroit Archdiocese along with its own statement of apology.
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Amid drug crisis, spiritual first responders hit the streets
Sidewalk prayers near shoot-up spots. Sunday sermons in the back of a bar. Pleas to struggling souls to surrender to God. Funerals for members of their flock who didn’t make it. Clergy members have become spiritual first responders in the opioid crisis, often leaving the pulpit to minister on the streets. They can be reverends, […]
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“I don’t feel real”: Mental stress mounting after Hurricane Michael
Signs of trauma aren’t a surprise for those who studied people after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
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The Burden of Suffering, the Weightiness of Love: Kate Bowler and Theodicy
Kate Bowler’s memoir is an elegant theodicy exactly because it is not an explanation. It is a story of human suffering. It is the account of a human person who believes and struggles in her belief as she tries to appropriate the depths of suffering in the midst of an illness that may end her life.
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For those thinking about suicide, prayers help—but are not enough.
When the suicide monster invades the psyche, more than kindness is required. More than toughing it out.
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Addicts and their loved ones talk about life with opioid addiction
Catholics in the Arligton Diocese discuss the role addiction plays in community and family life.
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Catholic teaching, pastoral response shows hope for those hurt by suicide
Pennsylvania priest ministers to a family that had just lost a son to suicide.
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Dementia didn’t rob me of my mom. It revealed her truest self.
Your mom’s gone. That’s what people told me during the last year of my mother’s life when she suffered from dementia.
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In order to better heal those they serve, doctors must first deal with their own suffering
Patients and doctors are allies separated by a common language: suffering. Patients suffer because of their diseases, because of their feelings of alienation within a technocratic medical system and because their experience is ignored in our society that often believes the best way to get rid of suffering is to get rid of the sufferer. […]
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Rome Diocese opens sainthood process for young Italian mother
The Diocese of Rome formally opened the sainthood process for a young Italian wife and mother who avoided inducing a premature birth and invasive treatment for cancer while she was pregnant.