(This article is) an attempt to provide an understanding of object-images and ego formation, as essential elements of personal identity, laying the foundation for understanding of identity formation in Christ Jesus. An answer to the … [Read more...]
Object-Images, Ego Formation, and Personal Identity: A Christ-Centered Approach
June 11, 2014 by Patrick F. Cioni
Lust – It’s Not Always About Sex
October 10, 2013 by Anonymous
Author’s name withheld by request. Sometimes it’s about a compulsion to dominate other people that originates in childhood rivalries and persists into adulthood as an unconscious trait. The good news is that a person can readily overcome … [Read more...]
Questions Answered
July 2, 2013 by Fr. Brian Mullady, OP
Has the church changed her teaching on condom use to prevent the spread of HIV? Can you tell me the origin of celibacy as a requirement for the priesthood and why the Western Church puts so much emphasis on it? Question: In the d … [Read more...]
Same-Sex Attractions in Youth and Their Right to Informed Consent
May 21, 2012 by Dr. Richard P. Fitzgibbons, MD
This paper was presented at the Twenty-Third Workshop for Bishops in Dallas, Texas, on February 16, 2011, sponsored by The National Catholic Bioethics Center and the Knights of Columbus. Youth have the right to be provided with the … [Read more...]
Positive Psychology and Pastoral Practice
April 29, 2012 by Dr. Christopher Kaczor, Ph.D.
The interventions advocated in positive psychology show, not just a surprising overlap with pastoral theology, but can also be used to deepen and aid Christian practice. Are psychology and religion fundamentally incompatible? … [Read more...]
Presuppositions of Darwinism
Editorial, October 2011
October 6, 2011 by Fr. Kenneth Baker, SJ
In his textbook, Philosophical Psychology (FSSP, Elmhurst, PA 1999), Prof. D.Q. McInerny lists and evaluates the six presuppositions of Darwinist evolution. The first presupposition is that life came to be, the way it is on earth, through n … [Read more...]
Self-esteem: Why? Why not?
High self-regard is often found in people who are narcissistic and have an inflated sense of popularity and likeableness.
February 1, 2008 by Msgr. Cormac Burke
There is a proper mode of self-esteem that is beneficial to each individual and there is a mode being propagated worldwide today that can be very harmful. First let us take a summary look at this latter mode, which has in a short time come … [Read more...]
From the HPR Archives – Part III
August 7, 1919 by HPRweb.com
The following, by Johan Liljencrants, originally appeared on August 7, 1919, when Homiletic & Pastoral Review was known as “The Homiletic Monthly & Pastoral Review.” “SPIRITISM AND RELIGION” A Reply to Criticism … [Read more...]
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