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Illness and Unwilled Suffering: The Most Effective Means of Spiritual Growth, by Constance T. Hull – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Illness and Unwilled Suffering: The Most Effective Means of Spiritual Growth, by Constance T. Hull

Saint of the Day for October 16: St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

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The Unspoken Trial of the Orphaning of Our Priests, by Kevin Wells

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By Constance T. Hull, Catholic Exchange, Oct. 15, 2025

Constance T. Hull is a wife, mother, spiritual mother, college campus minister, teacher, and writer. She holds a Master’s in Theology and has also published at Crisis Magazine, Public Discourse, and The Federalist. …

Last week, I planned to go grocery shopping with my daughter. It was a gray, fall afternoon. I sat down in the driver’s seat about to back out of the driveway when my whole world started spinning.

Thanks be to God I had not started driving. Things kept spinning, off and on, for over a week. At times, they’re still spinning. Vertigo. In an instant, driving became dangerous for my daughter and me, as well as anyone else on the road, should I have a vertigo attack behind the wheel.

I remember my mom going through something similar. Turns out, so did my grandmother. I’ve discovered a multi-generational struggle with vertigo in my family. …

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Illness and Unwilled Suffering: The Most Effective Means of Spiritual Growth, by Constance T. Hull

Saint of the Day for October 16: St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

The Unspoken Trial of the Orphaning of Our Priests, by Kevin Wells

By Constance T. Hull, Catholic Exchange, Oct. 15, 2025

Last week, I planned to go grocery shopping with my daughter. It was a gray, fall afternoon. I sat down in the driver’s seat about to back out of the driveway when my whole world started spinning.

Thanks be to God I had not started driving. Things kept spinning, off and on, for over a week. At times, they’re still spinning. Vertigo. In an instant, driving became dangerous for my daughter and me, as well as anyone else on the road, should I have a vertigo attack behind the wheel.

I remember my mom going through something similar. Turns out, so did my grandmother. I’ve discovered a multi-generational struggle with vertigo in my family. …

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