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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
By Maureen O'Connell It was February 2017 and I was leading a group at church through Dr. Greg’s Catholic Mindfulness course. I was also 9 weeks pregnant with our fifth child. We had just started week 5 of the course. We were reading about how, when...
A Tree is Known by its Fruit ~Luke 6:43 [Guest Post by CPI therapist Maureen O'Connell] How often do you delete marketing emails? If you’re like me about five per day. I feel like I’m constantly unsubscribing myself from marketing lists that I never even signed up...