Dr. Alexandra Campbell – integrating faith

welcome to our special program on the Year of Faith, THE FAITHFUL WITNESS, a series on the lives of Inspiring People and Witnesses of faith in the Catholic Church from around the world. These are people who lived their ordinary lives in extraordinary ways. They are examples of great fortitude and virtue. Their unique stories inspire us to be rooted in our faith. God calls each one of us today to inspire our brothers and sisters and to be witnesses of our faith.
Last week we listened to the dramatic conversion experience of Dr. Alexandra Campbell. Born and brought up in a Catholic family in New York, she is a practicing psychologist in a hospital in California, USA. Torn apart by her parents’ divorce, and having experienced various religious traditions in search of solace and truth, she is now back to Catholicism.
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Our Faithful Witness of today, Dr. Alexandra Campbell shares with us her dramatic experiences in life, what she learnt from the various religious traditions, and where they led her to. Her experience between her professional life and faith life and more.
Alexandra, welcome back to Vatican Radio.
Listen:
Indeed a wonderful experience. Now that you have been through various religious traditions, faith experiences: there must have been some truth in all of them?
In each of these traditions you were ardently looking for truth, and then finally you found, a place to rest, so to say, where your search ended?
And you are a psychologist, holding a doctorate in that subject. You never thought of faith as a psychologically induced thing?
Where do you find the integration of psychology and spirituality?
That was Alexandra Campbell sharing with us her faith experiences.
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You have been listening to THE FAITHFUL WITNESS our weekly series based on the lives of Inspiring People and Witnesses of faith in the Catholic Church from around the world. Our Faithful Witness of today has been Dr. Alexandra Campbell from California. She will tell us next week how she fosters her faith in day to day life.
By P.J. Joseph SJ
FRIDAY, 01 February 2013