[Looking for Diogenes]

The document is said to address those concerns by stressing a balanced approach that recognizes the potential contributions of psychology, but within a limited sphere of competence.

A big surprise for me in the child-abuse scandla is the extent to which the church has 'bought into' the modern psycho-therapeutic regime. From using psychologists to evaluate seminarians to using therapists to heal abuse victims, the church has relied on the psych community rather than on its own traditional methods.

[RobbyS]

If there is anything that I am sure of, it is that psychologists can tell us almost nothing about the phenomena of homosexuality. The article on the subject in the 1953 Enclyclodia Americana contains what I was taught sbout it in a psychology course in college, but all that has been repudiated now. They have done a 180.