I had the wonderful chance to hear Fr. Benedict Groeschel speak this evening at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica (better known here as Mission Church) in Boston. The topic was Virtue and Character Strengths: Psychology Takes a Good Turn. Apparent there are some hopeful signs in the psychology world after much destruction (remember Fr. Groeschel is a psychologist). He used this example of a chairman of the American Psychological Association going back to Plato, Aristotle, the Old and New Testaments, Augustine, and Aquinas to discuss virtue and its merits. And he's Jewish no less! And they are realizing that psychotherapy ... well, really isn't helping people all that much. And they are trying to do something about it.
So that was good news indeed.
