We live in an age that is painstakingly well-informed, very aware of all types of news. Our awareness transcends the limits of distance: we can just as easily talk on the phone with a friend down the street as we can watch events unfold in real time on the other side of the globe. Thanks to social media, we know copious up-to-the-minute details about the lives of all our friends.
I have written a novel and just under the title is the epitaph of Cardinal John Henry Newman, which reads: “Ex umbris et imaginibus en veritatem” (“Out of shadows and images into truth”). Aside from tending to the storylines and themes in the novel, the phrase can also be descriptive of the journey of someone suffering from depression – a journey I have traveled for many years. Without being fully conscious of it, I have been waiting for decades to find good material on depression and Catholicism.