Mental Health Crisis
Sister Idília Carneiro poses for a portrait outside St. Peter's Square at the Vatican.

Mind and heart: Church must combat mental health crisis, sister says

“The Church has always been in spaces with people in extremely fragile situations, always,” said Sister Idília Carneiro, the new superior general of the Sisters Hospitallers; and as global rates of mental illness continue to rise, she insisted that Catholics have an obligation to expand their ministries in addressing the crisis.