"Faith is the theological virtue by which we believe in God and all that He has said and revealed to us, because He is Truth itself. By faith, the person freely commits their entire self to God, offering 'the full submission of intellect and will' (Dei Verbum 5)."
Category
theological
Created: Openness to transcendence as fundamental human capacity; trust in God as ground of being
When the U.S. bishops consecrated the nation to the Sacred Heart in Orlando on June 11, 2026, the act carried an anthropological claim: that belonging precedes performance, and that the deepest human need is not achievement but to be received. This article traces what that claim means for psychological resilience and Catholic mental health practice.
A recent reflection from the National Catholic Register asks whether the hope within us is visible to those around us — a question that cuts to the clinical center of Catholic psychology and how conformity to Christ transforms not just the soul but the whole person.
Government informants now record Catholic homilies in Nicaraguan churches, listening for any deviation from pre-approved scripts. The Ortega-Murillo regime's precision targeting of religious practice reveals something specific about what faith communities carry that authoritarian systems cannot afford to leave intact.
Staatliche Informanten zeichnen mittlerweile in nicaraguanischen Kirchen katholische Predigten auf und achten auf jede Abweichung von vorab genehmigten Texten. Die gezielte Verfolgung religiöser Praxis durch das Regime Ortega-Murillo zeigt mit aller Deutlichkeit, was Glaubensgemeinschaften in sich tragen – etwas, das totalitäre Systeme sich schlicht nicht leisten können, unangetastet zu lassen.