For the Catholic Suffering from Scruples

Scrupulosity might look foolish or even funny to outsiders, but for people gripped in its claws, it’s hellish. I mean that literally: it feels like we are locked away from God and His love. Scrupulosity is a coil of fear, doubt, guilt, and despair.

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Detail of “Anxiety” – Sculpture by Ahad Hosseini, photo by Adam Jones from Kelowna, BC, Canada [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons