Forgiveness Is For YOU - Overcome Trauma Through Forgiveness1 Apr 2025

S2E11 Choosing Forgiveness: Fr. Thomas Berg on Healing, Catholic Guilt and Reconciliation

Friends,

In today’s episode, I welcome guest, Fr. Thomas Berg, an author, speaker on issues regarding church life, and visiting Professor of the Practice at the McGrath Institute for Church Life. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Rome’s Pontifical University Regina Apostolorum. Fr. Tom’s work centers on seminarian formation and healing those wounded by clergy sexual abuse. He and I discuss his co-authored book with Dr. Timothy Lock, Choosing Forgiveness: Unleash the Power of God’s Grace. Among other topics, we explore the act of forgiveness, the phenomenon of “Catholic guilt”, the four-step forgiveness process described in the book, and what it means to make a sincere apology.

Fr. Tom’s Links:

https://mcgrath.nd.edu/about/faculty-staff/fr-thomas-v-berg-ph-d/

https://churchlife-info.nd.edu/a-report-on-clergy-sexual-abuse

https://www.orderosv.com/product/choosing-forgiveness-unleash-the-power-of-god-s-grace

https://law.stthomas.edu/_media-library/documents/irjh/ncrji-fact-sheetl.pdf

https://a.co/d/dr72D2O

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