There is some news that no one wants to hear. But as renowned writer Joan Didion observed in her 2005 memoir, The Year of Magical Thinking (Knopf Doubleday), not one of us—no matter how charmed our lives may seem—escapes bad news. On a bright, sunny October day in 2024, such news came for me. I […] The post Society needs to make space for complicated grief appeared first on U.S. Catholic.