Cry of the Heart: On the Meaning of Suffering

The experience of suffering has posed a profound existential challenge to human hearts and minds throughout history. But it has become especially problematic in our time, when, with our good intentions and technological prowess, we seek to relieve the suffering of our patients at any cost, while in the end reducing the fullness of their personhood.

What we have failed to grasp is that the one who suffers yearns not only for relief from pain but a response to the deep-seated questions that s...