Reverend SOS

A Catholic perspective on current events

From confinement to trust

After months of restrictions and confinement, we are facing the difficult recovery of our activity. It is not a new normality, but an extraordinary reality that calls for psychological responses to novel situations.

Carlos Chiclana

Psychological Strategies for Spiritual Accompaniment (I)

When we accompany someone, it will help us to consider some aspects of psychological content that serve as a structure to facilitate the personal development of the person who asks us for spiritual direction.

Carlos Chiclana

"X-File"

In the midst of this tangle of attempts to buy happiness, the priests end up coming across some "X-File: unclassifiable phenomena in a strictly corporeal or earthly way.

Manuel Blanco

Can personal vocation cause depression?

When we see depressed people who are committed to their personal vocation, in marriage or celibacy, they sometimes wonder if this low mood and apathy could be caused by the vocation and should be abandoned as a necessary path to health.

Carlos Chiclana

Climate change and parishes

Who is to blame for climate change in recent times? Although some argue that climatology changes "yes or yes" due to various cycles rooted in nature, it seems quite obvious that human action is capable of modifying the environment.

Manuel Blanco

Textile fibers

Algunos lectores sugieren que hablemos sobre el cuidado de la ropa: lavado, planchado, etc… Es un tema muy amplio, sobre todo debido a la composición tan diferente de los diversos tejidos, que requieren cuidados diversos.