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While I don’t appreciate the nasty tone of many comments on my post about J.K. Rowling’s Suicidal Days, they have caused me to rethink my claim that divorce doesn’t CAUSE depression—even if it can TRIGGER it. Big whoop, you say: the semantics of those two words: “cause” versus “trigger.” But I realize that in distinguishing…

As an example of the relationship between stress and depression, J. Raymond DePaulo, Jr., M.D. mentions the situation with CBS commentator Mike Wallace, when he was on trial for libel over a story he’d done. In “Understanding Depression,” DePaulo writes: For weeks [Mike Wallace] sat in a drafty federal courthouse in New York City while…

Dear God, In today’s reading, we get to hear Luke’s story about the Road to Emmaus, when Jesus appeared to two disciples and pulls the same stunt that I do on my kids when I want the real skinny: he plays stupid. The men are on their way to Emmaus when Jesus approaches them and…

As I was reading Monsignor Massimo Camisasca’s reflection on last Friday’s reading, the miracle of the loaves and fish, this Italian priest seems to underscore the very premise Pope Gregory preached: that it is in active participation of love that we receive grace, and the hope of the Resurrection. Writes Monsignor Camisasca: The experience of…
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