Top Highlights

• Constant innovation and movement have wrought dislocation and alienation, amplifying the anxiety of mortal existence.
• Depression means englobement in a world without hope, even more unrelenting and unrelieved than Dante’s passage through hell or the post-apocalyptic world of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.
• There is a temptation among Catholics to explain away depression as if there were no medical issue involved — simply a spiritual failure on the part of the sufferer.
• The bourgeoisifying marginalization of suffering is a flight from solidarity; it is the pretense that life is really about being healthy, successful, beautiful, rich, young, independent.
• Love means exposure to the pain of separation. Loved ones decline and die. We never love well enough. We are never loved well enough.