What exactly has he done for Roman Catholics? In his book “Christian Principles for the Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy,” Dr. Carlos Fayard relates the story about one of his patients who was a sexually active homosexual priest. On page 3 of his book, Dr Fayard explains that this gay priest named “Joe” contracted HIV due to his frequent homosexual relationships that had “escalated to anonymous” encounters with other men in public spaces.”
But Dr. Carlos Fayard not only helps gay Catholic Priests with their sex addictions, he also helps them reconnect with the Virgin Mary using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Notice what pages 72 and 73 say in Dr. Fayard’s book:
“What I was theologically blind to was that Joe could imagine spiritual beings congruent with his own theological tradition. He pictured close to him the saint after whom his mother had named him, and also, out of the corner of the eye of his imagination, he saw the Virgin Mary. This sight shifted his emotional experience back to a sense of guilt and shame. I gently inquired what was happening, and he could hardly speak, as he was gasping for air. I redirected his attention to those that surrounded him, eliciting a different reaction. After he was able to again experience
God’s forgiveness and acceptance, I asked him to open his eyes and elaborate on what had happened. Joe told me he felt that God had forgiven him and accepted him, but that he could not “face the Blessed Mother,” not because he felt she would have a punitive attitude, but because he had disappointed her in a major way.Joe knew of my spiritual commitments and understood my limitations in being able to fully grasp the implications of what he had said, and so he proceeded to educate me. I accepted what Joe told me as his psychological reality. In that sense, I became a narrativist for a while, as his theological understanding and mine were very different, and so I went back to using CBT principles to challenge the assumptions that prevented him from engaging in specific prayer activities involving Mary. Eventually, he was able to do so, and he could then feel the benefits from restoring yet another relationship.”
A member of the General Conference Health Ministries and associate professor at Loma Linda University School of Medicine is helping to “restore” the “relationships” between gay priests and the Virgin Mary.
Rome must be very happy when its sex addicted priests can learn to pray again to the Virgin Mary, all thanks to our leaders.
• What part of the human brain are we using when Seventh-day Adventists reconnect Catholics to the Virgin Mary?
• What part of the brain is making us forget Revelation 14:6-12, our true mission and message?
• What part of the brain causes this type of spiritual blindness?
• What part of the brain is causing many of our leaders to care more about influence, money, position and power than about saving souls?
• What part of the brain causes us to remain silent in a time of seditious apostasy?
• What part of the brain is causing outright rebellion and spiritual decay within the church today?
• What part of the brain, if any, are these men using?
We really do have a cognitive problem in Adventism. Instead of publishing “The Psychology of Vaccine Hesitancy”, Dr. Fayard should have published “The Psychology of Obedience Hesitancy?” And then he needs to follow with another article called “The Psychology of Apostasy Enablers?”
When will Dr. Fayard apply his Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to reconnect our Seventh-day Adventist leaders with the Three Angels’ Message? That’s what he should be doing.