
Healing Sorrow: Faith and Fellowship Aid Those Grieving
Church and online communities offer needed support.
Church and online communities offer needed support.
A bereaved Catholic mother and a local pastor share their thoughts about how to cope with such horrors.
In her new book, Jennifer Hubbard shows how suffering can become redemptive.
How should one grieve as a Catholic?
All of human experience — including its most tragic elements — needs to be brought into the light so we can better understand that we are created in love, fallen in sin, and redeemed by an all-loving God.
The archbishops emphasized that Church officials were in talks with public health agencies and the government about the reopening of churches, which were closed March 24.
“The sword would not have reached Jesus if it had not pierced Mary’s heart.” —St. Bernard
COMMENTARY: I’ll go to Mass praying for all those around me whose hearts are breaking for what they lost or never had. Mary, our mother, who lost her only Son, is close to them in their grief. The Church should be, too.
Jennifer Hubbard lost her 6-year-old daughter Catherine in the 2012 tragedy.
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