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A Catholic Approach to Supporting Persons with Mental …

WebIn addition to supporting individuals, Catholics are also called to understand and support systemic changes needed to improve care for persons with mental illness, especially those with chronic and serious mental …

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Facing Anxiety with the Holy Spirit's Help

WebFacing Anxiety with the Holy Spirit's Help. Experiencing anxiety is a common problem that leads many people to seek counseling and therapy. Whether about work, family life, unexpected setbacks, one’s future, or …

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Be Not Afraid: Accompanying Loved Ones with Mental …

Web2. Love. Let your loved one know of your steadfast love for them in as many ways as possible. Small interactions mean a lot. A smile, a hand squeeze, a phone call, a favorite food. Understand that anger is …

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Expressing Care at a Distance

WebThe most up-to-date reports from public health professionals advise that visits to the sick and homebound temporarily cease in order to mitigate the spread of the virus. …

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McGrath Institute Blog Lisa Anderson

WebLisa Anderson, a convert to Catholicism, is a mental health advocate. She teaches a seminar at Notre Dame on "Living with Mental Illness" and is the founder of …

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Crisis and the Catholic School's Response

WebBringing Christ’s love to the community. Because teachers have a personal, direct, and regular connection to students and families, they are often the first to know and be able to respond when they are …

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Anointing of the Sick and the Virtue of Hope

WebAnointing of the Sick and the Virtue of Hope. The woman before us was frail, lying peacefully, unalert—a shadow of the fierce, intelligent, vivacious woman she had …

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Call (Me) the Midwife

WebToward the end of my nursing education, I learned that some of the worst community health problems globally are within maternal and infant health. So many countries have egregious infant and maternal morbidity and …

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The Spiritual Benefits of Fasting Year-Round

WebWeek 5: On MWF, fast for 23 hours. Restrict calories to about 400–600 each day. Fast for 20 hours the other days of the week. Mini-feast on Sunday. Week 6: Conduct 36–72 hour fast during the first …

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Essay Excerpt: Of Mental Illness and Icons

WebEssay Excerpt: Of Mental Illness and Icons. Editorial Note: This excerpt is taken from an essay entitled "Mental Illness in Light of the Theophany Icon" by Joel Looper, originally …

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Cultivating docility, a virtue for life's decisions

WebWisdom requires docility, a humble disposition of receptivity to the teaching of others. A docile person is a “teachable” person, who has learned how to learn. For St. Thomas, this virtue of life-long learning is an “integral part” …

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Faith and Science: What is True

WebThe text is worth quoting at length. Faith is about a response to God, the source of all reality who is Truth. This means that faith involves assenting to what God …

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Faith & Science: The Foundation of a Catholic Approach to Science

WebThis entrusting of one’s whole self to God, and the new path of knowing it makes possible, is called faith. In the words of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the greatest Catholic theologian …

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Choosing Trust with St. Ignatius of Loyola

WebTake, Lord, and receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding, and all my will—. all that I have and possess. You, Lord, have given all that to me. I now give it …

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Monday Motivation: Weekly Resources

WebIn this week's resource round-up: materials for praying and teaching the Rosary, as well as resources for Catholic voting and mental health awareness. Monday …

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McGrath Institute Blog Rev. Aaron Michka, C.S.C.

WebRev. Aaron Michka, C.S.C. Fr. Aaron Michka, CSC is a doctoral candidate in anthropology at the University of Michigan and a 2020–21 fellow at the Notre Dame …

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Overcoming the Forgetting Curve in Teaching a Consistent Ethic of …

WebHere’s the great news: Notre Dame’s McGrath Institute for Church Life continues to add to its Teaching Human Dignity series, a one-of-a-kind collection of free, …

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Cultivating docility, a lesson from Our Lady of Good Counsel

WebYesterday’s post discussed the human need for counsel on the path to heaven, an important point for today’s feast of Our Lady of Good Counsel. It is the virtue of docility, or …

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Penance & Reconciliation and the Virtue of Justice

WebThis turn toward justice is facilitated through the Sacrament of Penance & Reconciliation, where we are not only offered absolution, but are also given penance—a …

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A Nation Consecrated to Mary

WebTweet. Today, May 1, Archbishop José Gomez of Los Angeles (in his role as president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops) will be renewing the consecration of …

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Imitating Mary, Mother of Life

WebImitating Mary, Mother of Life. An unconventional portrayal of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Nellie Edwards ’ “Mother of Life” immediately draws the viewer’s gaze to Mary’s face, an …

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St. John Paul II's Holistic Commitment to Social Justice

WebPope St. John Paul II spoke and wrote frequently about social justice, because his concern for social issues was a consistent and integral dimension of his …

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