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Mr. Pate was quick to note: “I hear a lot of our [gay] siblings say, ‘I’m a survivor of conversion therapy,’ and I don’t put myself in that category. I don’t see it as something that was entirely or even mostly detrimental.” Even so, he described feeling pressured to accept reductive theories of homosexuality from a therapist who he felt was so eager for Mr. Pate to get married that he could spare no empathy for a potential partner, a sentiment echoed by several interviewees about their respective therapists.
Mr. Pate now thinks his therapist did not leave enough space for the Cross and for the possibility that he, as the
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Bob Schuchts is a retired marriage and family therapist and founder of the John Paul II Healing Center in Tallahassee, Florida. It is his conviction outlined in Be Transformed that for Catholics one of the fundamental purposes of each of the seven sacraments is to be a source of healing in a particular way.
St. Patrickâs Catholic Church will host âMen on Fireâ in February.
But this is a little different type of fire.
Itâs an event designed to help men come to understand who they are in Christ and become spiritual leaders.
Bart Schuchts of the John Paul II Healing Center in Tallahassee, Florida, is guest speaker of the two-day menâs conference set for Feb. 12-13 in the church at 3400 E. 16th St., in Fremont. Men of all faiths are invited.
The Rev. Nicholas Mishek, associate pastor at St. Patrickâs, encourages men of all ages to attend.
âBart is such a dynamic personality, but he is also a man who is filled with joy and he is very down to earth,â Mishek said. âHe has that way of bringing men closer to the Lord and encouraging them to live out their faith.â