Bishop Keith Chylinski, a priest trained in clinical psychology, argues that faith and psychotherapy are not competing systems but complementary paths toward the healing God intends for body and soul together. His case against the stigma surrounding mental health rests on a specific anthropological claim: God loves the whole person. That claim has deep structural consequences for how the Church accompanies those who suffer.
Carl Anderson told the 2026 DMU graduating class that we already know what a psychology looks like when God has been excluded. What we do not yet know is what a Christ-centered psychology would look like. That unknown is their assignment.
A New Jersey appeals court may soon force Seton Hall University to release a hidden investigation into how the institution handled clergy sexual abuse allegations. The case exposes the tension between legal self-protection and the demands of justice for survivors. For Catholic mental health professionals and formation communities, the story is a case study in what happens when institutional prudence is subordinated to self-preservation.
The image of Christ as both Shepherd and Lamb is not merely a theological paradox. It is a living portrait of what genuine care looks like, and it carries profound implications for how we understand healing, resilience, and the human person. At Presence +, this mystery sits at the very center of our work.
Bishop Keith Chylinski, a priest trained in clinical psychology, argues that faith and psychotherapy are not competing systems but complementary paths toward the healing God intends for body and soul together. His case against the stigma surrounding mental health rests on a specific anthropological claim: God loves the whole person. That claim has deep structural consequences for how the Church accompanies those who suffer.
Carl Anderson told the 2026 DMU graduating class that we already know what a psychology looks like when God has been excluded. What we do not yet know is what a Christ-centered psychology would look like. That unknown is their assignment.
A New Jersey appeals court may soon force Seton Hall University to release a hidden investigation into how the institution handled clergy sexual abuse allegations. The case exposes the tension between legal self-protection and the demands of justice for survivors. For Catholic mental health professionals and formation communities, the story is a case study in what happens when institutional prudence is subordinated to self-preservation.
Pope Leo XIV's planned June visit to Barcelona's Sagrada Familia is not ceremonial tourism. It is an act of prudence — a Pope reading the signs of European Catholic identity and choosing, deliberately, where to plant his first footsteps. Presence + examines what that choice reveals about sacred space, moral formation, and the liturgy as a living event.
When Courage International met privately with Pope Leo XIV in February 2026, the encounter raised a question older than the organization itself: what keeps apostolic work from hollowing out the very people who do it? The answer lies not in method but in the moral architecture of the person who serves.
A Vatican conference on AI deepfakes, held days before an anticipated papal encyclical, named a threat that Catholic anthropology has long prepared us to understand: fabricated faces and voices corrode the conditions that make genuine human encounter possible. Presence + examines what prudence demands of Catholics navigating a media environment where truth itself is increasingly synthetic.
Bishop John Ricard, who died May 20 at 86, spent three decades as president of the National Black Catholic Congress and served as the first Black bishop in the Archdiocese of Baltimore. His life traces what the Catholic Christian tradition means when it calls justice a cardinal virtue — not an abstraction, but a sustained orientation of the will toward what others are genuinely owed.
Modern disintegration — personal and social — has a precise philosophical diagnosis: the confusion of individual with person. Jacques Maritain argued that this error is not merely academic but the root pathology of alienated modern life. A recovery of justice, understood as ordered relation between persons, is the cure.
