by Dr. Peter Malinoski | Mar 22, 2023
Dear Souls and Hearts Members, Welcome to the fifth and final weekly reflection in our series on Catholic spiritual bypassing. To lead off this week’s reflection, I’m sharing a testimony which is so relevant and important to our discussion on spiritual...
by Dr. Peter Malinoski | Mar 15, 2023
Dear Souls and Hearts members, This is the fourth in a series of reflections on spiritual bypassing. The previous reflections set us up for a deeper understanding of the causes and effects of spiritual bypassing: February 22, 2023 Spiritual Bypassing: Catholic Style...
by Dr. Peter Malinoski | Mar 8, 2023
Dear Souls and Hearts Members, Five days ago, I discovered a paper titled Exploring Experts’ Perspectives on Spiritual Bypass: a Conventional Content Analysis, by Gabriela Picciotto and Jesse Fox from the February 2018 volume of Pastoral Psychology – I have to share...
by Dr. Peter Malinoski | Mar 1, 2023
Dear Souls and Hearts Members, Last week, in the reflection titled Spiritual Bypassing: Catholic Style I introduced and defined spiritual bypassing. We covered the “what” of spiritual bypassing, and we came up with this summary: The three critical components of...
by Dr. Peter Malinoski | Feb 22, 2023
Dear Souls and Hearts Members, In our reflection from last week, Naturalizing and Spiritualizing: Two Errors Catholics Make, we explored how devout Catholics spiritualize as a way to protect themselves. To review: What does it mean to spiritualize the natural? It...
