Philosophy and Healing w/ Fr. Matthew Rolling
Restore The Glory Podcast
Jake Khym
4.9 • 971 Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
This week, Jake and Bob welcome Fr. Matthew Rolling to the show to discuss healing through the lens of Thomistic philosophy. The path to healing isn't a straight path and sometimes our experiences in life cloud our perception of reality. Fr. Matthew explains why philosophy helps us find truth and how it can redirect us when we become confused within our healing journeys. They also explore how sin affects healing, the role of our passions, and the importance of grace.
Key Points:
- Philosophy helps us find the truth about reality
- Not all questions can be answered by human reason alone
- The human person is a union of body and soul
- We should not let our experiences define our reality
- Our desires have the ability to lead us towards what is inherently good
- Grace perfects nature, it does not destroy it
Resources:
- The Glorious Freedom of the Children of God by Fr. Matthew Rolling (Available soon for purchase here)
- St. Gregory the Great Seminary
- Diocese of Lincoln
- Healing Professionals Virtual Workshop
Chapters:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:04:09 The Importance of Philosophy in Healing
00:09:08 The Error of Experiences Defining Reality
00:15:44 Understanding the Human Person as Body and Soul
00:22:13 The Relationship Between Sin and Wounds
00:25:20 Passions, Emotions, and Apparent Goods
00:34:30 Trauma and the Healing Process
00:41:57 Dealing with Desire, Fear, Joy, and Sorrow
00:47:42 How Grace and Virtue Lead to Healing
00:57:01 Discerning Truth in All Things
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, listeners, we wanted to let you know about a special event that we have coming up that myself |
| 0:04.9 | and Bob and a colleague of ours, Christopher Lafitte, will be doing. It's a healing workshop for |
| 0:10.3 | professionals. Bob, what's the theme this year? Yeah, this is for therapists, for anybody in the |
| 0:15.9 | healing professions, and even people that are in ministry, priest, religious, anybody in pastoral ministry, |
| 0:22.2 | I think it will apply to everybody, probably most of the listeners to the podcast. |
| 0:27.0 | And it's sexual healing, healing our sexual wounds. |
| 0:30.4 | So we're going to go deep into looking at not just the surface of our sexual wounds, |
| 0:36.2 | but kind of what's underneath them and how |
| 0:38.8 | do we bring healing restoration there? |
| 0:40.9 | Yeah, we're really excited to be able to offer it to these wonderful people. |
| 0:45.7 | So October 23rd and 24th are the dates. |
| 0:50.0 | It will be a virtual event, so you'll go and access it through an online course platform. |
| 0:54.8 | To find out more information, you can go to the John Paul IIHealing website. |
| 0:58.8 | So that's jpII Healing Center.org. |
| 1:03.0 | And when you go to that main homepage, there will be some banners that are going across that are explaining about various events. |
| 1:09.7 | And then click the one that says |
| 1:10.9 | Healing Professionals Virtual Workshop. We'll also have that link in the show notes for you to check |
| 1:16.5 | out. And we hope to see you there. God bless. Welcome to Restore the Glory podcast. My name is Jake |
| 1:22.4 | Kim. And I'm Bob Schutz. We're two former Catholic therapists exploring the journey of healing through the integration of faith and psychology. |
| 1:30.9 | And whether you're new to the podcast or you've been with us for a while, we're delighted you're here. |
| 1:35.7 | All right, Bob. Let's dive in. |
| 1:39.1 | Hey, Bob, good to see you again. |
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