Gangs now control roughly 90% of Port-au-Prince, drone attacks on civilians have risen 120% in one year, and more than 1,200 people have been killed by improvised explosive devices in 2025 alone. Haiti's collapse is not an accident of geography or bad luck. It is the predictable outcome of what happens when self-interest displaces the common good at every level of a society — and Catholic social thought has named this mechanism for over a century.
Ignatius of Loyola's rules for discernment of spirits offer clinicians a structured framework for helping clients distinguish constructive from destructive interior movements. This guide translates the Spiritual Exercises' core discernment principles into language and practice applicable in Catholic Christian counseling settings.
A growing number of young adults are severing ties with their families permanently, a trend Noelle Mering argues in her new book reflects the dominance of radical individualism in contemporary culture. For Catholic Christian clinicians, the phenomenon is a diagnostic signal: the person arriving in a clinical encounter is not merely symptomatic but anthropologically disoriented. This piece draws on the Catholic Christian Meta-Model of the Person to give practitioners a concrete framework for working with estrangement.
A Pakistani court set aside Maria Shahbaz's birth certificate and placed her with the man who abducted her. Pakistan's Federal Constitutional Court agreed on July 16, 2026, to review that decision. The case exposes what happens when judicial power treats a person's will as irrelevant.
Gangs now control roughly 90% of Port-au-Prince, drone attacks on civilians have risen 120% in one year, and more than 1,200 people have been killed by improvised explosive devices in 2025 alone. Haiti's collapse is not an accident of geography or bad luck. It is the predictable outcome of what happens when self-interest displaces the common good at every level of a society — and Catholic social thought has named this mechanism for over a century.
Ignatius of Loyola's rules for discernment of spirits offer clinicians a structured framework for helping clients distinguish constructive from destructive interior movements. This guide translates the Spiritual Exercises' core discernment principles into language and practice applicable in Catholic Christian counseling settings.
A growing number of young adults are severing ties with their families permanently, a trend Noelle Mering argues in her new book reflects the dominance of radical individualism in contemporary culture. For Catholic Christian clinicians, the phenomenon is a diagnostic signal: the person arriving in a clinical encounter is not merely symptomatic but anthropologically disoriented. This piece draws on the Catholic Christian Meta-Model of the Person to give practitioners a concrete framework for working with estrangement.
Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska
Cory Doctorow
Joshua Giles
Sarah Ahn · Nam Soon Ahn
Charlie Mackesy
A recent commentary in the National Catholic Register argues that Catholics must look beyond disagreement to find common ground — beginning, of all places, at dinner. The claim is modest in form but carries real anthropological weight: the shared meal is a site of genuine human encounter, not merely a social courtesy. What holds for civic life holds equally in the counselor's office, the spiritual direction room, and anywhere else a Catholic Christian understanding of the person shapes how two people meet.
Summer vacation removes the structure that ordinarily keeps pornography use in check, and the Spanish foundation Dale una Vuelta has published nine practical tips for navigating that vulnerability. For Catholic Christian mental health providers, those tips point toward a deeper clinical question: what does accompanying a person toward genuine freedom actually require? The answer runs through emotional regulation, values-based action, and the classical re-ordering of disordered appetite.
A Canadian lawsuit pitting intended parents against a surrogate who refused to abort their child at 22 weeks exposes a structural problem in commercial surrogacy: the one most directly affected by every decision has no legal standing, no voice, and no name in the proceedings. The case illuminates what happens when a child's existence is subordinated to contractual terms. Catholic Christian anthropology offers a precise account of why that subordination fails on its own terms.
