Philippines bishops challenge laity with letter on mental health
In the Philippines, like in many other parts of the world, the suicide rate is astonishingly high. The bishops' pastoral letter considers what's to be done to improve mental health.
Simone Lorenzo-Peckson
Simone Lorenzo is a Filipina essayist, professor's wife, and mom to 3 cheeky girls. Before having kids, she taught undergraduate theology and interdisciplinary courses at the Ateneo de Manila University and the University of Asia and the Pacific in the Philippines. She studied the Theology of Marriage and Family at the John Paul II Institute in Washington, D.C., and Southeast Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore. She writes for Aleteia, and on her substack, BT&G, where she gathers stories and glimpses of God-sent beauties.
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