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.
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Work requirements to qualify for government aid: How well does it work?
The recipient of welfare money has to work at a job, be actively seeking a job or take part in a job training program — and be able to document it — to receive the cash assistance. Those who don’t are at risk of having their funds cut off for months. For repeat offenders, it could be years.
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English bishop cautions Catholics on care in state-funded hospitals
An English bishop warned Catholics to be alert to the possible deliberate killings of seriously ill patients in state-funded hospitals.
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Suicide and abortion stem from the same lie: that some lives don’t matter.
Choosing death is choosing death, and that choice always comes from within a dark hole.