01 Apr Consecration Week 3
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25 Mar Consecration Week 2
https://youtu.be/mCh9hnHcJQI This week's theme is Casting Off the Spirit of the World. We will be looking at the attachments to specific vices and virtues each day that keep us tied to this world or the next. If you haven't signed up for the consecration yet, you can do so...
10 Sep My Soul Clings To you
GUEST POST FROM CPI THERAPIST MAUREEN O'CONNELL, CATHOLICPSYCH RALEIGH ~Psalm 69~ I’ve been sick for about two months. Really sick. A few times I thought I was getting better then got worse! Perhaps the hardest part has been that almost everyone around me has been sick too....
28 Aug 5 Lessons for Bishops from a Married Man
To the Bishops of the Catholic Church Who Are Not Complicit in Scandalous Crimes, (To the Bishops who did know about the scandals and coverups, I'm not ready to write to you yet. You belong in jail or least retired. Once you are there I may be...
16 Aug 5 Things To Do During The Church Crisis
The level of chaos and crisis in the church now is overwhelming, and it only promises to increase. I have been thinking, praying, and reading through a lot of what’s out there, and I want to provide a mini-series of thought on the matter. This...
16 Aug 5 Things To Know About the Church Crisis
The level of chaos and crisis in the church now is overwhelming, and it only promises to increase. I have been thinking, praying, and reading through a lot of what's out there, and I want to provide a mini-series of thought on the matter. This...
02 Aug The Problem With the Bishop Scandals
The US Conference of Bishops FINALLY admitted what the deepest problem is- "Our Church (read- Bishops) is suffering from a crisis of sexual morality." Why do I say they are referring to themselves? Because this is the official statement released after McCarrick's scandal broke. This...
02 Apr The Catholic Guide to Mindfulness, or, Coffee – Satan’s Drink
Coffee aficionados often claim that the spread of its popularity among Catholics is due to Pope Clement VIII's influence. He was pressed by his advisers to denounce coffee. The advisers believed coffee was the "bitter invention of Satan" because of its popularity among Muslims. However, upon tasting coffee,...
22 Mar Banana Chips
From guest blogger Barbra Bottaro --------- 10:47am on a Wednesday. We were enduring the 4th snowstorm in three weeks, and it was the first day of Spring. We were stuck inside; it was too cold to go out anywhere else, but not snowy enough to play in...
17 Mar Who are we and what heals us?
There is a false dichotomy, an error in thinking, that runs deep in the veins of our sense of ourselves. This is the idea that our psychology is separate from our spirituality or our biology. It is certainly good to look through different lenses to...