The Institute has benefited a wide range of recipients - from small parish programs to AIDS hospices, refugee services and shelters. Recently, the Institute s board gave half a million dollars to the National Conference of Catholic Bishops to assist in catechetical programming and material development. Although they re involved in work to engage all the senses, Lockwood says he and his staff will remain fully committed to the printed word. There is something preeminent about it, he says. Still, OSV staff plan to launch their new web site and to develop their CD-ROM area.
New books are in the offing too.
In all we do, we re very committed to making our Catholic heritage come alive, says Lockwood. It s a question many Christians ask in the face of modern psychology s relativism and secular humanism. Protestant groups, such as Focus on the Family, have done much over the years to baptize the science of the mind, but now there s a Catholic organization dedicated to this lofty mission. Founded in July 1997, CIPS developed as an initiative to provide formation to mental health professionals. If providers of mental health services view their clients as an integral being with meaning and purpose, it will influence the way they counsel, says Sweeney, a licensed psychologist with 16 years of clinical experience.