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Seen at Last: How Abortion Survivors Are Bringing the Human Face of a Global Debate to the World's Biggest Stage
Faces of Choice founder Lyric Gillett is set to bring abortion survivors' stories to the FIFA 2026 World Cup, reaching one of the largest global audiences in history. The campaign centers on personal encounter as the most powerful catalyst for moral recognition.
The Firehose of Fulfillment: What Instant Gratification Does to the Person
Facebook's algorithmic feed and Amazon's one-click checkout are not neutral conveniences. They are environments engineered to short-circuit the delay between desire and satisfaction — and that short-circuit has measurable consequences for the human capacity to commit, to relate, and to flourish. Bibi, Zulfiqar, and Qamar's 2025 review of internet-enabled environments offers a useful entry point for a deeper anthropological question: was the human person made for this?
A Bishop Who Would Not Be Silent: The Martyrdom of Osório Afonso and What Moral Courage Costs
Bishop Osório Citora Afonso of Quelimane was shot dead on June 6, 2026, weeks after speaking out against Islamist violence in northern Mozambique. His death raises urgent questions about the psychology of moral courage, the resilience of faith communities under persecution, and what it means to bear witness at personal cost. This is a story about what the Catholic understanding of the human person illuminates when words become dangerous.
Why the Three Stooges Still Make Us Laugh — and Whether They Should
T Schur's 2026 systems-theory reading of slapstick cinema offers a fresh lens for an old question: why does watching Moe poke Curly in the eyes produce genuine delight, and is that delight worth defending? The answer touches on how humans relate to bodies, failure, and the comic distance between what we intend and what we get.
Did Montessori Get Fantasy Wrong? What New Research Reveals About Children and Make-Believe
Maria Montessori warned that fantasy could blur a child's grip on reality. A 2025 psychological review of the evidence challenges that concern — and reframes what parents should actually watch for. The question isn't whether children confuse fiction with fact, but what role imagination plays in their moral and cognitive formation.

The Sacred Heart and the Psychology of Divine Love: Why This Ancient Devotion Still Heals

June's dedication to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is more than a liturgical observance — it is a centuries-old encounter with a love that modern psychology is only beginning to measure. The devotion carries within it a coherent vision of the human person that speaks directly to questions of attachment, healing, and resilience. Understanding its history illuminates why so many people still find in it a source of genuine psychological and spiritual renewal.

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Where Science Meets Faith: Catholic Scientists Convene to Explore Human Sexuality and the Cosmos

The Society of Catholic Scientists is gathering near Chicago this June to tackle two of the most profound questions facing human understanding: the nature of human sexuality and the future of the universe. For those working at the intersection of faith, mental health, and the sciences of the person, this convergence is more than academic — it is a sign of intellectual momentum.

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Why Do You Love Me? The Question That Reveals Everything the Answer Cannot

Ira Bedzow's essay in Psychology Today argues that love cannot be explained by the traits of the beloved, only by the story of how it grew. Catholic anthropology agrees — and then pushes the argument somewhere the essay cannot follow, toward the irreducible weight of a particular human existence.

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Three Generations, One Roof: What Multigenerational Living Reveals About Us

Three women in New Rochelle recently pooled their resources to share a home across three generations. Their decision illuminates something enduring about what human beings are made for — and what gets lost when families pull apart.

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Happy Non-Gestational Parent Day! New York Proposes New Terms for Parents Just in Time for Father's Day... Our Take

New York's legislature has passed a bill replacing 'mother' and 'father' with clinical substitutes like 'gestating parent' and 'non-gestating parent.' The New York bishops have called this a move that mocks the foundation of the family. The deeper question — one that psychology, anthropology, and Catholic anthropology have long engaged — is what happens to human beings when the language that names their most formative relationships is systematically removed from public life.

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The Hidden Human Cost of AI: What 'Magnifica Humanitas' Demands We See

A 2023 TIME investigation found Kenyan AI data laborers paid under two dollars an hour, reporting severe psychological trauma. Pope Leo's first encyclical names this exploitation directly. Catholic theologian Léocadie Lushombo calls that naming prophetic — and asks what moral attention, honestly practiced, now requires of anyone who uses these tools.

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Grief, Anger, Love, and Longing: What People Are Searching For — June 12, 2026

Reddit's grief communities are surfacing disenfranchised grief, identity rupture, and spiritual searching — converging with Father's Day proximity into a clinically rich moment. This week's analysis applies attachment theory, Doka's disenfranchised grief framework, and the CCMMP's relational and virtue premises to help clinicians respond with both precision and pastoral depth.

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