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Kathy Wandishin, pictured with her son John at Johns Hopkins Medical Center, discuses the book she wrote about finding hope among sorrow. (Courtesy Wandishin family)

Radio Interview: Finding hope in the midst of sorrow

February 10, 2025
By Catholic Review Staff
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Books, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview

Kathy Wandishin’s youngest child, John, was diagnosed with leukemia when he was just 10 years old. For more than five years, he and his family would undergo many unbelievable trials before the young Archbishop Curley High School student ultimately died just one day before his 16th birthday in 2005.

In a new book, “Climbing the Rainbow,” Kathy shares her family’s harrowing journey and offers some profound insights about the nature of grief and the importance of hope and trust in God.

Kathy is a lifeline parishioner of St. Clare in Essex who now attends Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Essex. She has long worked for the Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, having served at St. Clare, Archbishop Curley, the Catholic Center in Baltimore and the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore.

Click play below to listen to the full interview.

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