Farewell Editorial

In May 2021, Jesse Fox and Robert Kugelmann received emails from Anthony Isacco, asking about our availability to meet with the Catholic Psychotherapy Association's (CPA) taskforce, which was exploring establishing a journal devoted to the integration of the Catholic intellectual traditions and psychotherapy. The CPA had approved a year earlier the setting up of the taskforce. We were invited to be co-editors of the new journal, Integratus. We were inspired by the idea for many reasons. One of the most important had to do with the absence of a journal that had a specific focus on the intersection of Catholicism and applied psychology. We saw the great potential of a peer-reviewed journal that could uncover the psychological treasures within the 2,000-year history of Catholicism and bring them to the surface for all to benefit from, and simultaneously bring them into conversation with modern psychotherapy. While there were and still are many journals now devoted to spirituality, religion, and psychology, this particular way of viewing these topics needed voice. And so the vision of a journal that could delve deeply into these timeless topics took clearer shape.