Suicide

Assurance about Heaven

Pat McCloskey, OFM May 23, 2025

How can I know if I will go to heaven?

Why Was Christ Executed?

Pat McCloskey, OFM March 24, 2025

Knowing that God is all-powerful, why did he allow Christ to be executed?

Montage about depression | Photo by micheile henderson on Unsplash

Jane de Chantal: A Saint for the Depressed

Bert Ghezzi March 8, 2025

Despite debilitating depression, Jane de Chantal led a remarkable life.

A suicide prevention sign is seen on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco in 2008. Catholic ministry leaders shared with OSV News pastoral strategies for preventing suicide, as the nation observes Suicide Prevention Month in September. (OSV News photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)

‘We need to talk about suicide,’ says Catholic mental health expert

OSV News September 25, 2024

As National Suicide Prevention Month draws to a close, a Catholic mental health expert told OSV News that open, ongoing conversations about suicide are crucial.

She’s talked to murderers, abusers, and even those wrestling with the occult. Sister Mary Frances Seeley and volunteers answer all calls with a message of God’s unconditional love and prayerful support.

People mourning | Photo by Transly Translation Agency on Unsplash

Catholic Church ‘never despairs’ of souls lost to suicide, say pastoral leaders

OSV News November 20, 2023

When his 29-year-old daughter Katie died in 2016, Deacon Edward Shoener shared a heartrending truth in the obituary: she had taken her life amid a long-running struggle with depression.