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What Corpus Christi Reveals About the Psychology of Belonging and the Healing Power of Sacred Presence
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What Corpus Christi Reveals About the Psychology of Belonging and the Healing Power of Sacred Presence

The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ is not simply a liturgical feast. It is an annual confrontation with one of the deepest questions in human psychology: what does it mean to be truly present to another, and to be truly received? Presence + explores how the theology of Corpus Christi maps onto the science of belonging, therapeutic alliance, and the Catholic Christian understanding of the whole person.

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Room for One More: Pet-Inclusive Shelters Honor Relational Attachments

Homeless shelters across the country are redesigning their policies to welcome residents' pets — and in doing so, they are recovering a deeper truth about what human beings are and what they need to flourish. The person who refuses to abandon their animal is practicing fidelity, and the shelter that makes room for both is practicing something close to wisdom.

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When Suffering Meets Choice: Aid in Dying and the Fully Human Response

By September, nearly one in three Americans will live in a state where medical aid in dying is legal — yet very few people who support the practice ever pursue it. That gap between polling and practice points to something worth examining: what people facing terminal illness actually need, and what a fully human response to suffering and death requires.

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Little Lifters, Big Questions: What Kid Fitness Influencers Reveal About the Body, Formation, and Flourishing

A viral trend of kid fitness influencers raises genuine questions about childhood formation, body image, and what we are really cultivating when we put children's physical development on public display. The answers reach deeper than fitness culture — into what the body is, how character forms, and what flourishing actually requires.

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Faith, Identity, and the Workplace: What the Trevor Williams Case Reveals About Religious Discrimination in Professional Sports

The firing of Washington Nationals spokesman Sean Hudson, caught on video apparently admitting to the blacklisting of Catholic pitcher Trevor Williams, has placed religious identity and professional consequence at the center of a national conversation. For those working at the intersection of faith, mental health, and human dignity, the case is not simply a sports story. It is a case study in what happens when a person's deepest convictions become a liability in the eyes of an institution.

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Beatification and the Architecture of Resilience: What the Church's Newest Blesseds Reveal About Human Flourishing

Pope Leo XIV's authorization of six new beatification decrees, including the cause of Lebanese Patriarch Elias Hoyek and 80 Spanish martyrs, offers more than ecclesiastical news. These lives, recognized for martyrdom, missionary perseverance, and hidden holiness, map the psychological and spiritual contours of resilience that Catholic mental health frameworks have long argued are inseparable. Presence + explores what these stories mean for the science and faith of human thriving.

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Elections, Economics, and Inner Unrest: What People Are Searching For — June 3, 2026

California's primary results, bitcoin volatility, and a wave of Reddit posts about loneliness and purposelessness are arriving simultaneously in the consulting room. This analysis applies the Catholic Christian Meta-Model of the Person to help clinicians navigate a week where civic disorientation and personal fragmentation converge.