Many of those attending a Feb. 3 workshop on the opioid crisis at the Catholic Social Ministry Gathering in Washington told personal stories of pain and loss.
Health and Wellness
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How can God and medicine work together to heal trauma?
This week’s guest is Michael R. Lovell. We discuss his article “We need both medicine and God to overcome trauma.” We also discuss these articles: Donald Trump and the complicated diplomacy of deportation What my friendship with Pope Francis taught me about interfaith dialogue What the New York Times gets wrong about the abortion debate […]
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Why we need both God and medicine to overcome trauma
I have found that praying 15 minutes every day is an important form of self-care.
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Hysterectomy can be morally licit in limited situations, Vatican says
The church teaches that sterilization is morally unacceptable, but a hysterectomy could be if the uterus could not sustain a pregnancy, according to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
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Priest apologizes for funeral homily that focused on suicide
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.