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Why Is the Catholic Church Hiring Psychologists? | NBC Left Field
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April 11, 2018
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4:28Now PlayingCatholic Church guidelines call for potential priests, nuns, sisters, and brothers to be given psychological assessments before entering religious life. These assessments are meant to identify a range of things — including "psychological defects" and "psychic disturbances." But how do they work? And what are churches really looking for?
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