I sent my “Mentally Ill, Psychopath, or Evil? I Need to Know” post to a hundred or so of my closest friends. I invited my former theology professors and past and present colleagues in Catholic publishing to weigh in on the issue since they are really smart. Here’s what some of them said, which made…

Medical intuitive and renowned author Caroline Myss and I have a few things in common: we both have studied theology, and we were both taught by nuns. But when it comes to interpreting sacred texts, like Teresa of Avila’s classic “Interior Castle,” we must have been in two different classrooms. Because our two castles have…

Click here to read an interesting interview with Caroline Myss by Beliefnet’s Valerie Reiss. Myss talks about her new book, “Entering the Castle,” and says you don’t have to profess poverty, chastity, and obedience to live a deeply spiritual life. (That part, I agree with!) And click here to read an excerpt from “Entering the…

Was Cho Seung Hui–the shooter identified in the Virgina Tech killings–mentally ill or irreparably evil? Did he suffer from a treatable mood disorder, or was he a psychopath unable to be helped? It’s a theological, psychological, and sociological riddle–an ugly one. Even as the genetic studies of mood disorders continue to pinpoint specific genes that…

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