Because his check-up was on Tuesday, a day on which he normally does not have any audiences in the Vatican, it seems reasonable to say the visit was scheduled in advance.
Health and Wellness
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Podcast: How one bishop’s experience of suicide loss led him to start a mental health ministry
Bishop John Dolan on how the church can better support those struggling with mental health issues.
Posted inFaith, News
Holy Smoke: A history of tobacco and the Catholic Church
The Catholic Church played a major role in bringing tobacco to Italy, which is still the number one producer of raw tobacco in the European Union today.
Posted inFaith, Features
Bishop Dolan: How losing family to suicide led me to start a mental health ministry
I am a bishop, but before anything else, I am a human being who understands the severe toll of mental illness, especially when it is left untreated.
Posted inFaith, Jesuit School Spotlight
How Catholic high schools can address the teen mental health crisis
Life-threatening mental health concerns affecting U.S. teens have reached a crisis point, complicated by a laundry list of social issues.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Jordan Neely’s killing on the New York subway reminds us: Dehumanizing language can be fatal
Two recent tragedies, a death on a New York city subway train and a mass shooting in Texas, show that too many of us follow the temptation to describe others as less than human.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
There’s a mental crisis among teens. The Catholic Church needs to respond.
The crisis for teens is both psychological and spiritual, and it demands a response from both mental health and faith communities. How do we make our church again a place of belonging for young people who are hurting?
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: God doesn’t make us sick or well. So what is faith’s role in the face of illness?
To face potential mortal illness with wry humor and a taste for the ironic takes a delicate touch, but that is what the United Church of Christ pastor and writer Molly Baskette does in her new book.
Posted inPodcasts, Politics & Society
A Catholic psychiatrist on mental illness and the road to human flourishing
This week on The Gloria Purvis Podcast, Gloria speaks with Dr. Meg Chisolm, a Catholic psychiatrist, about mental illness and how should people of faith treat it.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
The grace of growing old
It is easy to think of older people as always having existed in their current condition. Does it make us feel younger to think that way? More superior? Perhaps we hope it holds our own mortality at bay.