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“Do Not Be Afraid … You Are My Dearest Friends”*

Toxic Fear is perhaps life’s greatest hostage-taker. One psychiatrist calls it a “disease of the imagination.” Fear and disabling Worry can start off like a tiny seed and, watered by thoughts that emphasize worst-case scenarios, grow into a virus-like fiend that ends up dominating our mental state. It then holds us back from our ability to enjoy nearly every dimension of our life: our talents, our work, our love, our play, and our approach to a life in the Spirit.

This website is dedicated to three major Defense Systems that can be effective in helping us overcome the insidious nature of fear, as well as other mental health demons like depression. It will also focus on how we can better live out our lives free of those persistent foragers that roam throughout the corners of our minds… relentlessly haunting us.

Those three Defense Systems are: Spirituality, Psychology and Addiction. All three of these provide newly developed means of delving into the root causes of fear and depression and other mental health disorders, and assisting people in finding improved pathways to freedom, joy, and peace.

“Do not be afraid” – a phrase found 365 times in Sacred Scripture!

*Luke 12:32; translation found in The Bible in Contemporary Language, Eugene H. Peterson

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Vatican expert: To fight sex abuse, the Catholic Church must invest in women

Jul 22, 2018

Article posted in America Magazine: https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2018/07/20/vatican-expert-fight-sex-abuse-catholic-church-must-invest-women

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Father James Martin: Tracing the causes of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church

Jul 22, 2018

Article posted in America Magazine: https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2017/12/20/father-james-martin-tracing-causes-sexual-abuse-catholic-church

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Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Jul 22, 2018

  “ … his heart was moved with pity for them” Mk. 6:34   Bertrand Russell, the Nobel Laureate and philosopher, summed up his entire life with these words:...

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What It Means To “Search for God”

Jul 19, 2018

Despite what you may think about a guy who used to be a priest, I’ve had my ups and downs with faith. Doubt has come in various forms, but...

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Buying into the Prosperity Gospel

Jul 12, 2018

Last week’s blog, “Does Everything Happen for a Reason?” was prompted by an article in America magazine by Eloise Blondiau called “The Gospel According to Goop.” Goop, in case...

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Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Cycle B

Jul 12, 2018

  “Jesus summoned the Twelve and began to send them out two by two.” Mk. 6:7 “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild...

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Does Everything Really Happen for a Reason?

Jul 05, 2018

Writing in America Magazine, Eloise Blondiau describes author Kate Bowler’s view of life before being diagnosed with cancer. “It was certainty, plain and simple, that God had a worthy...

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The Pope and the Baobab

Jun 28, 2018

Recent news reports confirm that the iconic baobab, the famous African tree that can live thousands of years, reach nearly 100 feet high and grow trunks that are 32...