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Truth Be Told: Cardinal Tamkevičius and the Inner Life the KGB Could Not Reach

A new biography of Cardinal Sigitas Tamkevičius, SJ, recounts how a Jesuit priest edited an underground Catholic publication in Soviet Lithuania and survived six years in a strict-regime labor camp without surrendering his interior freedom. The account raises a question that extends well beyond Cold War history: what does it reveal about a person that no administrative coercion could dissolve his sense of purpose?

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What Child Centered Play Therapy Can Teach a Priest (and an Adult in General)

Child-Centered Play Therapy identifies a basic human need: every person requires at least one place where they can bring anger, sadness, and frustration and still be accepted. A priest whose prayer life and fraternal bonds cannot fill that role faces a structural crisis, not merely a personal failing — one that drives unmet needs toward unhealthy outlets.

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The Joy of Being Wrong: What Father Mike Schmitz's Conversion Reveals About Humility, Truth, and Hope

Father Mike Schmitz, whose Bible in a Year podcast has reached one billion downloads, recently described a formation crisis in which he concluded the Church was wrong and he was right. His account of that reversal — and the unexpected joy it produced — maps a moral architecture that Catholic mental health and faith formation practitioners recognize as genuinely therapeutic. Presence + examines what that structure actually is.