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Heart and Soul: Faith and Healing

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Faith in Healing, the suffering that comes with chronic illness and how faith can help deal with the pain.

13/04/2018 GMT

Faith and Healing

BBC World Service - Heart and Soul, Faith and Healing

Caroline Wyatt has MS.  She explores how faith helps others facing chronic illness.

The BBC's Caroline Wyatt has MS. Her Catholic faith has been a source of strength, but she asks God, 'Why me?'  She explores how faith helps people facing chronic illness.

How is faith tested at our weakest and most vulnerable moments? When Caroline Wyatt was 12 years old she announced she wanted to be the first female Pope. With that career path closed off to her she became a journalist and eventually the BBC’s Religious Affairs correspondent, going onto meet Pope Francis on a foreign trip

She now has Multiple Sclerosis, sending her spiralling into doubt about her faith. In a deeply personal programme she shares the battle she is fighting with her own body and her faith. Caroline sets out on a journey of exploration, seeking answers by talking to other people of different faiths to her but also facing a lifetime of chronic illness about how they reconcile their pain, suffering, fear and doubt with their beliefs.

Producer: Lissa Cook

Credit: Clip of Gutted with kind permission of Liz Richardson. Written by Liz Richardson and Tara Robinson, co-produced by The Conker Group and HOME Manchester.

(Photo: Candles. Credit: Getty Images)

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