The Christmas season can be challenging for those in addiction recovery, but sacramental grace and practical strategies can keep those seeking sobriety on track, pastoral experts told OSV News.
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Archbishop Gudziak: As bishops tackle mental health crisis, parishes can bring comfort through community
As the U.S. Catholic bishops begin to tackle the issue of mental health amid a national crisis, parishes can ease the pain of mental illness by “helping people to be together” in community and solidarity, said Metropolitan Archbishop Borys A. Gudziak of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia.
Experts: All parties to labor disputes in health care make efforts to avoid patient harm
The largest health care workers’ strike in U.S. history recently ended, and more labor disputes in the industry could be ahead.
Healing Heroes: Catholic nurses inject faith into demanding job
When the going gets tough, Catholic nurses turn to their faith to get them through a demanding job.
Catholic bishops reiterate moral permissibility of COVID vaccines as boosters become available
The U.S. Catholic bishops have reiterated the moral permissibility of the COVID vaccines available in the United States for Catholics as booster shots become available ahead of flu and cold season.
As FDA considers artificial wombs, ethicist recommends ‘courage and caution’
Catholics should approach the issue of artificial wombs with both courage and caution, an ethicist stressed after U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisers met about the new technology.
Two U.S bishops launch National Catholic Mental Health Campaign and novena amid crisis
Two U.S. bishops have launched the National Catholic Mental Health Campaign, amid a global crisis in mental health and a decline in mental health resources in the U.S.
Healing addiction requires faith, science and a pastoral commitment to love, say experts
The McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame teamed up with the nonprofit Catholic in Recovery to present a Sept. 27 webinar on “Addiction and Recovery: Accompaniment Toward Wholeness and Healing,” part of the institute’s “Conversations That Matter” series.
‘Courageous Catholic medicine’ needed more than ever, say medical professionals
“Be Not Afraid: Courageous Catholic Medicine” is the theme of the Catholic Medical Association’s 92nd annual educational conference Sept. 7-9 in Phoenix.
Judge blocks portion of Georgia law, allowing some transgender hormone treatments for minors
A federal judge in Georgia Aug. 20 temporarily blocked part of a state law banning certain types of medical or surgical gender reassignment procedures for minors who identify as transgender while a challenge to that law plays out in court.
RADIO INTERVIEW: Hopkins cardiac doctor examines faith and evidence-based medicine
Is there a role for Jesus in modern evidence-based medicine? Catholic Review Managing Editor George Matysek talks about it with Dr. Luigi Adamo, Director for Cardiac Immunology in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine’s Division of Cardiology in Baltimore.
On cannabis: Let’s stop digging the hole
Information pointing out the profoundly negative effects of marijuana use continues to grow, in direct correlation with the severity of these effects.