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What Joan of Arc Can Teach Us About Psychological Resilience and the Courage to Believe
Joan of Arc walked to the stake on May 30, 1431, surrounded by a crowd that had already condemned her. Within minutes of her death, that same crowd began to weep. What happens inside a human person that produces that kind of unshakeable coherence under pressure — and what can it tell us about the psychology of faith-rooted resilience today?
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When the Algorithm Meets the Soul: Gen Z Catholics and the Question of Work in the Age of AI
Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on artificial intelligence has given young Catholic workers a theological framework for one of the most urgent questions of their generation. What does human dignity mean when machine learning can replicate, and in some cases outperform, the tasks that once defined a career? The intersection of faith, mental health, and the disrupted labor market is where this conversation must now live.
The Self-Cast Stone: What is Religious scrupulosity and How to Address It
A reader asks about religious scrupulosity — the tormenting cycle of doubt, confession, and fear that mimics devotion while exhausting the soul. This column traces what scrupulosity actually is, why Catholic anthropology refuses to reduce it to brain chemistry alone, and what the tradition's best guides recommend for those caught in its grip.

What Our Lady of Charity Reveals About the Psychology of Maternal Love

A chance encounter with Mary under the title of Our Lady of Charity opens a deeper conversation about how reverence for motherhood shapes psychological wholeness. The Catholic Christian understanding of maternal love is not sentiment alone — it carries a structure that modern wellness frameworks are only beginning to articulate. Presence + explores what this ancient devotion offers to the contemporary pursuit of resilience and human flourishing.

May 30, 2026 · 8 min read

Top stories

What Joan of Arc Can Teach Us About Psychological Resilience and the Courage to Believe

When the Algorithm Meets the Soul: Gen Z Catholics and the Question of Work in the Age of AI

The Self-Cast Stone: What is Religious scrupulosity and How to Address It

What Our Lady of Charity Reveals About the Psychology of Maternal Love

Top stories

What Joan of Arc Can Teach Us About Psychological Resilience and the Courage to Believe

When the Algorithm Meets the Soul: Gen Z Catholics and the Question of Work in the Age of AI

The Self-Cast Stone: What is Religious scrupulosity and How to Address It

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