Therapists, like me, want their clients to know how to recognize abuse because abuse can cause trauma, which may lead to anxiety, depression, PTSD, and a variety of irrational beliefs. Any of these ...

In 1991, a church pastor and a mental health counselor—Jeff Van Vonderen and David Johnson—teamed up to publish The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse: Recognizing and Escaping Spiritual Manipulation and ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis has asked the Vatican to study whether the Catholic Church should classify "spiritual abuse" as a new crime in order to address cases where priests use purported ...

A person prays during a Mass at the Brazil's Sanctuary of Our Lady of Aparecida Oct. 12, 2021. As dioceses and shrines are questioning how best to limit the use of artwork created by Slovenian Father ...

(RNS) — Ruch had stepped down after admitting serious mistakes in responding to abuse in his diocese. He still faces an investigation into alleged spiritual abuse. (RNS) — A controversial and popular ...

Archbishop Filippo Iannone, right, and Bishop Juan Ignacio Arrieta Ochoa hold a press conference to illustrate the changes in the Catholic Church’s Code of Canon Law at the Vatican, Tuesday, June 1, ...

Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, speaks with Xavière Missionary Sister Nathalie Becquart, undersecretary of the Synod of Bishops, before the ...

VATICAN CITY — Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández has said the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has completed its investigation into the Father Marko Rupnik case and is currently setting up an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On July 3, Lexington was rocked by news that a pastor at LexCity Church had been arrested for allegedly having sex with a minor ...

The first research study into the sexual abuse of women religious in German-speaking countries has shown a common pattern of spiritual abuse with global cases and highlighted that the majority of ...

(RNS) — Concerns about spiritual abuse have become common in recent years — at churches large and small — following the fall of megachurch pastors like Mark Driscoll, of the now-disbanded Mars Hill ...