While many have heard of the Divine Mercy devotion and Saint Faustina, few have heard of Fr. Michał Sopoćko (So-poch-ko, now Blessed), the Polish priest who first transmitted the Divine Mercy message to the world. He commissioned the Divine … [Read more...]
About Dr. Wanda Skowronska, PhD
Wanda Skowronska is a Catholic psychologist and author living and working mainly in Sydney. She has written for several periodicals, including the Australian Catholic journal Annals Australasia. She completed a PhD in 2011 at the John Paul II Institute in Melbourne, where she has done sessional lecturing, as well as at the Wagga Wagga Seminary in NSW. She published the first compilation of Australian conversion stories, Catholics from Down Under and All Over (2015); a book on 1960s Catholic schooldays, Incense, Angels and Revolution (2019); and more recently Paul Vitz: Psychological Mythbuster (2022).
The Hidden Cloister of Suffering
Open to All
June 24, 2020 by Dr. Wanda Skowronska, PhD
One of the great omissions in contemporary psychology is its failure to account for suffering. Yet people ask why, and continue to ask why they suffer, and will do so till the end of time. Yes, of course, psychologists try to alleviate … [Read more...]
Virtue Signalling
May 19, 2019 by Dr. Wanda Skowronska, PhD
How has your virtue signalling gone this week? Have you praised recycling, veganism or rolled your eyes at the mention of Donald Trump? In my area, free bicycles were left on the street for all who wanted to use them so as to reduce carbon … [Read more...]
So You Think You Understand Mercy?
July 31, 2018 by Dr. Wanda Skowronska, PhD
From the time it was announced, Catholics welcomed the year of Jubilee, the year of Mercy, with open hearts. We recall Pope Francis saying in Misericordiae Vultus (2015) that mercy “reveals the very mystery of the Most Holy Trinity” and is t … [Read more...]
Mythbuster Extraordinaire: How Benedict Tackled False Christologies
August 11, 2014 by Dr. Wanda Skowronska, PhD
Christians sense there is something radically wrong in trying to put Christ into strange molds, where long-held Christian beliefs about Christ are attacked from all sides. As Benedict stated in his Dunwoodie address to seminarians, to see … [Read more...]
Remembering Who We Are: Recovering from Cultural Amnesia.
March 4, 2013 by Dr. Wanda Skowronska, PhD
The western loss of the larger and smaller narratives which depicted the horizons of life, is a loss of memory on a grand scale, a sign of some deep disorder for those who see it. Roman Emperor Caesar Augustus, Western Civilization … [Read more...]
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