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Governing from the Knees: What De la Espriella's Pilgrimage Teaches the Catholic Clinician
Colombia's president-elect Abelardo de la Espriella began his transition not with press conferences but with a pilgrimage through Catholic shrines, publicly naming the sick, the vulnerable, and the armed forces before taking office. For Catholic clinicians, his example offers a concrete model: faith need not be bracketed from professional life but can animate it from within.
In Spite of Consent: Spain's Conversion Therapy Ban and the Limits of State Care
Spain's Congress of Deputies has passed a penal code amendment that would criminalize certain pastoral and psychological support programs for Catholics with same-sex attraction who freely seek to live chastely. The legislation conflates coercive harm with conscience-driven accompaniment, and in doing so misunderstands what therapeutic healing actually requires. The Catholic tradition, and the best of clinical psychology, both distinguish between affirming a person's current state and helping them pursue the life they have freely chosen.
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Detachment, Loss, and Hospitality: Three Gospel Conditions for Human Flourishing
Pope Leo XIV's June 28 Angelus address drew on Matthew 10:37-42 to identify three conditions for following Christ: detachment, loss, and hospitality. Each condition maps onto a distinct psychological mechanism, and together they sketch a coherent anthropology of the free, growing, and relational person.

Pope Leo XIV Names Loneliness and Loss of Meaning as the Deepest Wounds of Our Time

At the close of a two-day extraordinary consistory on June 27, Pope Leo XIV told the College of Cardinals that loneliness, loss of meaning, and youth despair rank among the most urgent wounds facing humanity. His address connects interior fragmentation directly to the breakdown of peace in the world. The psychological dimensions of these wounds illuminate why the Church's response must reach beyond policy into the formation of persons.

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The Broken Window Effect and the Psychology of Public Hostility Toward Religious Minorities

Anti-Christian incidents in Israel have nearly doubled year over year, a pattern that maps onto a well-documented psychological mechanism: once public aggression goes unchecked, social permission for it expands. This article examines that mechanism and what Catholic Christian anthropology offers as a framework for understanding both the harm and the resilience it demands.

The Person as Gift, Not Commodity: Surrogacy, Desire, and Human Dignity in the French Presidential Race

France's 2027 presidential race has placed surrogacy at the center of European bioethics, with former Prime Minister Gabriel Attal calling for legalization against cross-party resistance. Beneath the electoral politics lies a deeper psychological question: what happens to persons — surrogates, children, and adults — when desire becomes the primary criterion for reproductive decisions? Catholic anthropology and developmental psychology converge on an answer that policy debates rarely sustain long enough to hear.

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Governing from the Knees: What De la Espriella's Pilgrimage Teaches the Catholic Clinician

In Spite of Consent: Spain's Conversion Therapy Ban and the Limits of State Care

Detachment, Loss, and Hospitality: Three Gospel Conditions for Human Flourishing

Pope Leo XIV Names Loneliness and Loss of Meaning as the Deepest Wounds of Our Time

Top stories

Governing from the Knees: What De la Espriella's Pilgrimage Teaches the Catholic Clinician

In Spite of Consent: Spain's Conversion Therapy Ban and the Limits of State Care

Detachment, Loss, and Hospitality: Three Gospel Conditions for Human Flourishing

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The Broken Window Effect and the Psychology of Public Hostility Toward Religious Minorities

The Person as Gift, Not Commodity: Surrogacy, Desire, and Human Dignity in the French Presidential Race