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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...