The Labyrinth is a documentary that tells the story of Martin Kolodziej, one of the first prisoners in the Auschwitz concentration camp. He spoke little about that experience until he suffered a severe stroke … during his rehab he started drawing … the trailer … a summary … the film’s web-site … over 100 images […]
… an interview with Thea Bowman, “a Franciscan Sister who became a huge inspiration to black Catholic communities, and to wider circles for her joy and gratitude, her nobility of spirit, and her very real spirituality.” “When I first found out I had cancer, I didn’t know if I should pray for healing or life
let me live until I die … Read More »
The Sick Child Edvard Munch Read the commentary in Journal of Medicine & the Person.
entering the loneliness of the other … Read More »
… He knew how to listen. He listened intensely. He was not listening for the slip where he could introduce a wedge of condemnation, but so that he could grasp all the energy of the hidden spring from which words pour forth. And when he answered, he would unveil prospects that attracted his interlocutor, like
on how to listen … Read More »
… a profile of Daniel Sulmasy… a Franciscan brother who is also a … physician, philosopher & member of the Obama administration’s bioethics council. “There is no heroic physician who inspires my medicine. It is more about St. Francis embracing the leper. That is the sort of way in which I’m inspired to be a
embracing the leper … Read More »
… Robert Pollack shares his thoughts on our modern day rituals of death … “The current hospital response of science to the dying … goes something like this: “You have had the misfortune to be born too soon to benefit from science’s ever deeper comprehension of nature. That is too bad, but since we can
a biologist’s reflections on pain, dying, and hope … Read More »
… Giancarlo Cesana’s reflections on our limitedness. “Limits are our human condition, to be shared. This is the only way in which we can respect also the people whose limitations are apparently more evident than ours.” “If I am the ugliest man in the world, but the most beautiful woman in the world loves me,
we are all limited … Read More »
… burnout … compassion fatigue … brokenness … emotional fatigue … stress … anxiety … The paradox is that it is only through our woundedness that we are able to heal others. Frank Ostaseski discusses here. (scroll down a little to “Too of ten in care-giving …”) Rachel Remen discusses in a previous post. Leonce
we have many words to express our woundedness… Read More »
… “Were it not for the death of a companion, were it not for the death of a relative, of a person we know and care about, were it not for the death of someone close to us, were it not for the death of someone who in some way has crossed the path of
the inevitability of death … Read More »
… the story of Vicky, a young lady with HIV, who is healed in her encounter with Rose … it is also told in Greater – Defeating AIDS, an award winning film at Cannes. Vicky is speaking at the Med Conference this weekend.
an encounter that can resurrect a life … Read More »
