Therapy is a professional practice with standards of care. To reframe it as a matter of “free speech” is to miss the point entirely.
Quang D. Tran
Quang D. Tran is a Jesuit priest and a licensed psychologist. He is currently a faculty member at St. Louis University in the Department of Psychology and School of Education.
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I learned to love the last three popes. I look forward to embracing the next one, too.
No one gathers Christians—Catholics and non-Catholics alike—throughout the world, however imperfectly, in the way the pope does. The world needs the pope.
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How parents can avoid passing on election stress to their children
Advice from a Jesuit psychologist in training
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‘Why is Jesus covered in popcorn?’: Memories of Vietnamese Catholic Holy Week in New Orleans
It has been almost 20 years since I left New Orleans to join the Jesuits, and there are few things I miss more than Holy Week at my home parish.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Viet Thanh Nguyen writes about the refugees we don’t remember anymore
The author of “The Sympathizer” has a new book of short stories about Vietnamese-Americans who do not fit stereotypes.
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Why we need purgatory
Pastoral care re-imagined in light of purgatory can bring our world much needed healing and communion.