A Catholic Psychologist's Perspective
There are crucial times in history where one has to choose the leader who will get the job done over the more likable or even the more virtuous leader. Who the President is really, really matters in concrete terms. So, a vote for Trump is simply a vote for the rights of the unborn. We have no other option.
Before, I hadn’t grasped the verse, “For God so loved the world that he gave his only son” (Jn 3:16). I’d thought, “If he loved us so much, why didn’t he give himself?” After Michael, I grasped how great the Father’s sacrifice was.
We live in a world where sometimes crushing suffering and evil abound. Does God simply view our trials from the outside, or is it possible that He knows them with a depth we can't imagine?
Neurotic suffering is, truly, suffering. It feels bad, and it only feels worse as it continues. However, it’s suffering that goes nowhere.
Doublethink is on the rise, as the Western world collapses into rampant individualism, thought control under the guise of tolerance, and soft totalitarianism. “Doublethink” is a term coined by George Orwell in his dystopian masterpiece, 1984. In his bleak vision of a totalitarian future, Orwell defines doublethink as the ability to hold two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind without any sense of tension between the two.
A piece on one of my favorite podcasts, which concludes that finding your kingdom is the ultimate goal of counseling. Certainly, healing is good. Freedom is good. But healing and freedom for their own sake lead nowhere. Counseling fulfills its end when it heals the wounds, unbinds the chains, and clears away the debris that prevent us from finding our kingdom.
Imagery can be a powerful therapeutic tool. But what if we could imagery as a way to go more deeply into reality, not take a break from it? That's what Christian imagery can do.
Practice People are the people who bring our faults to the surface so that we can't ignore them. They really annoy us. So why are they so necessary?
