Conservative Catholics and Orthodox often say that priests should not act as psychotherapists unless they are so trained, and should never so act in the confess... Read More ...
Children have a way of digging out the things we pushed to the back of the closet long ago. There were lessons I learned in childhood that I thought marriage an... Read More ...
In his 1987 encyclical, Sollicitudo Rei Socialis, Pope John Paul II warned the world against becoming a “civilization of consumerism” and each of us becoming “s... Read More ...
For our family, the past two years have been one crisis after another. It started with a prenatal diagnosis, continued with a series of hospitalizations and my ... Read More ...
“The sins of the father are to be laid upon the children.”
- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
Growing up we didn’t talk much about my grandfather... Read More ...
It’s a fact of life but it's ironic nonetheless: many people avoid therapy because of the stigma attached to seeking therapy.
What will people think?
Is ... Read More ...
For Christians, prayer is an everyday part of life, although its benefits are often taken for granted. For example, did you know that prayer has research-proven... Read More ...
We’ve all had days where everything seems to go wrong. Your alarm clock doesn’t go off. The coffee machine breaks. There’s no hot water. The kids miss the bus. ... Read More ...
Not long ago, I was meeting a few friends at a coffee shop to work on our respective projects. The conversation turned to how difficult it can be to really live... Read More ...
Editor's Note: This is the second in a two-part series. See The Value of Affirmation for part one.
When a person has not been adequately affirmed, he lives l... Read More ...
When we talk of “true love” most of us have an ideal in our minds of what that means…someone who will love us unconditionally for who we really are- not for our... Read More ...
Many people have a tendency to be too hard on themselves when they make a mistake. We tell ourselves that we shouldn’t have slipped up and that we should have k... Read More ...
