Jimmy Lai has spent more days in solitary confinement than the United States was engaged in World War II. The psychology of prolonged isolation predicts cognitive deterioration, identity collapse, and despair. His Catholic faith is the operative explanation for why none of that has happened.
As New York's assisted suicide law moves toward implementation on August 5, Archbishop Ronald Hicks and disability rights advocates are raising questions that go beyond politics. At stake is the model of the human person a society endorses when it authorizes death as a response to suffering — and what Catholic Christian anthropology offers as an alternative.
At a prayer vigil in Barcelona, Pope Leo XIV responded to a suicide survivor with words that refused both false consolation and theological abstraction. His response signals a maturing moment for Catholic engagement with mental health — one that holds clinical reality and spiritual meaning together without collapsing one into the other.
Jimmy Lai has spent more days in solitary confinement than the United States was engaged in World War II. The psychology of prolonged isolation predicts cognitive deterioration, identity collapse, and despair. His Catholic faith is the operative explanation for why none of that has happened.
As New York's assisted suicide law moves toward implementation on August 5, Archbishop Ronald Hicks and disability rights advocates are raising questions that go beyond politics. At stake is the model of the human person a society endorses when it authorizes death as a response to suffering — and what Catholic Christian anthropology offers as an alternative.
A six-year-old named Renzo asked Pope Leo XIV whether he liked soccer. The answer compressed decades of psychological research into a single image: the player who never passes the ball will probably lose. The reflection lands well beyond the World Cup occasion that prompted it.
Gallup's 2026 Values and Beliefs poll recorded a nine-point drop in American acceptance of children born outside of marriage in a single year. A shift that size is not demographic drift. It raises a more interesting question: what actually happens when a person changes their mind, and why does it matter?
When Dr. Archibald stumbles upon the Catholic Christian Meta-Model of the Person, he realizes Larry's lip fixation is not merely a quirky attachment — it is a window into the whole anthropology of embodied personhood. A satirical case revisitation, played almost completely straight.