Holy Darkness: what the catholic church has never said about depression

By MARIAN CROSSLEY

You have sat in the pew feeling nothing. You have prayed and heard silence. You have carried depression inside a faith that seemed to have no room for it - and wondered, in the darkest moments, whether something was wrong with your soul.
Nothing is wrong with your soul.
Holy Darkness is the book the Catholic Church has needed for generations - a fearless, theologically grounded, and deeply compassionate exploration of why the richest tradition of human suffering in religious history has said so little to its most suffering members. Drawing on the mystical wisdom of St. John of the Cross, the hidden anguish of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, the raw desolation of the Psalms, and the staggering pastoral reality of a God who fell on his face in Gethsemane and cried out from the Cross in the language of abandonment, Marian Crossley recovers what the Church has always known but rarely said:
The darkness is not evidence against your faith. It never was.
Part theological recovery, part pastoral reckoning, part letter to the brokenhearted - Holy Darkness will change how you understand your suffering, your tradition, and the God who has been in the dark with you all along.
For everyone who has ever sat close to the door, this is the book that finally speaks.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H8Q7NKHR
• ISBN13: 9798187145294
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"