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Tag: Religious Formation

  • Story of a former member of the Institute of the Incarnate Word

    Story of a former member of the Institute of the Incarnate Word

    For the good of the Holy Catholic Church and of the future souls who will entrust their vocations to the IVE

    This account is presented anonymously and corresponds, in good faith, to the experiences I lived, to the situations I witnessed and to the way in which certain events were presented and lived during my stay at the Institute. I do not intend to present an isolated event or to attribute individual responsibility to a specific person, but to record behaviors and dynamics that, over time, caught my attention and that I consider important for a broader evaluation of the reality of formation and the internal life of the Institute.

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  • The “Crystal Generation” at the Institute of the Incarnate Word: A Mechanism of Institutional De-Responsibility

    The “Crystal Generation” at the Institute of the Incarnate Word: A Mechanism of Institutional De-Responsibility

    The term “crystal generation” has become prevalent in contemporary discourse to designate young people as emotionally fragile. Although it is used colloquially, in institutional contexts it can be transformed into a tool for emotional control, a mechanism described in depth by studies of social psychology and sectarian dynamics (Singer, 2003; Lalich & Tobias, 2006; Hassan, 2018).

    At the Institute of the Incarnate Word (IVE), this expression serves to exonerate the institution from responsibility for the psychological suffering of young members and to reinforce a system of vertical obedience, a dynamic widely documented in the literature on authoritarian organizations (Lifton, 1989; Barker, 1984).

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