Here’s a look at what we know about the operation and what the pope’s doctors will be watching out for.
Health and Wellness
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Social media is producing ‘celebrity priests’ — and it’s a problem for their vocations
In this era of viral videos and the cult of social media personalities, understanding mental health and also the effects of celebrity priesthood is a conversation we must have.
Posted inFaith, Features
Conversion therapy is still happening in Catholic spaces—and its effects on L.G.B.T. people can be devastating
Although only a small minority of L.G.B.T. Catholics will ever seek conversion therapy, the assumptions underlying that therapy often influence the message many gay Catholics hear in the confessional and from friends and mentors.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Did going to therapy challenge my faith? Yes. Did it make it stronger? Also yes.
I had to accept that it’s possible that there is no God. Or that there is, but he is a stranger. Instead of choosing to trust the church because trust was where I wanted to be, I deliberately stepped out, off the safety of the shore, into doubt.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Catholic nuns working to address mental health needs? There’s an app for that.
An app developed by Catholic Extension helps sisters to address the spiritual and mental health needs of Latino immigrants in their neighborhoods.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Should children get the Covid-19 vaccine? A Catholic doctor weighs in.
Vaccines for children are now getting attention — with questions about when will they be available, if they are necessary to end the pandemic and if Catholic parents should inoculate their children.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Faith leaders are key in combatting vaccine hesitancy among religious people—and QAnon believers
There is hope for public health officials angling to push people toward vaccine acceptance through faith-based campaigns and messages.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Down with Zoom school! Up with mystics! The case for the contemplative classroom
How do we speak to a generation that, at least on the surface, seems less and less prepared for the difficulties it will face?
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Do you love the church but sometimes hate it? There’s a word for that feeling (and it can be beneficial).
The psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan explained how it can be healthy to sometimes ‘hate’ what we truly love, including the church.
Posted inFaith, Last Take
Anxious about returning to regular life? 6 Jesuit discernment tips for the post-Covid world
We are all emerging from our Covid retreat and encountering sensory overload, writes Debra K. Mooney. The principles of Ignatian retreat and discernment can help us with the re-entry process.