It turns out that the psychologists have finally come round to the view that “being Catholic is good for you”. As Jordan Peterson very recently observed, Catholicism is “as sane as you can get”.
Psychology has frowned on religion ever since Sigmund Freud believed he had made a connection between the practice of religion and mental illness. The connection was bogus, in fact, but the association between religion and mental illness, or religion providing a crutch for those who could not cope, stuck.
