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.
When the U.S. bishops consecrated the nation to the Sacred Heart in Orlando on June 11, 2026, the act carried an anthropological claim: that belonging precedes performance, and that the deepest human need is not achievement but to be received. This article traces what that claim means for psychological resilience and Catholic mental health practice.
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.
Canada's proposed Safe Social Media Act would ban children under 16 from major platforms, citing documented harms to adolescent mental health. The legislation opens a question developmental psychology and Catholic anthropology have been answering in parallel: what conditions allow a young person to flourish? The answer centers on presence, not prohibition alone.
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.
When the U.S. bishops consecrated the nation to the Sacred Heart in Orlando on June 11, 2026, the act carried an anthropological claim: that belonging precedes performance, and that the deepest human need is not achievement but to be received. This article traces what that claim means for psychological resilience and Catholic mental health practice.
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.
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.
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 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.