Addiction and Recovery: Accompaniment Toward Wholeness and Healing

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Presented by McGrath Institute for Church Life

Monday, January 22, 2024 12:00 pm

Join the McGrath Institute and Catholic in Recovery for a discussion with leading thinkers in addiction recovery, psychiatry, and theology. Drawing on their respective experiences in pastoral and psychiatric care, our speakers will address how to understand addiction through a more integrated lens, engaging the wisdom of both faith and science. Our speakers will address practical questions of how priests and parish staff, mental health professionals, and each one of us can draw on the resources of faith and science to support those in our families and communities living with addiction. Moderated by Beth Hlabse ’11, M.S., LMHCA, program director of the Fiat Program on Faith and Mental Health at the McGrath Institute for Church Life.

Speakers:
Fr. Sean Kilcawley – Diocese of Lincoln, Freedom from Pornography Apostolate;
Amy Ricke, M.D. – Psychiatrist;
Scott Weeman, M.A. – Marriage and Family Therapist

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Meet the Speaker: Rev. Sean Kilcawley

Fr. Sean Kilcawley is a nationally recognized speaker on Theology of the Body, Human Love and pornography addiction. He was ordained a priest in 2005 for the Diocese of Lincoln, where he serves as director of the Freedom from Pornography Apostolate. He served as assistant pastor at St. Joseph and North American Martyrs and taught Theology of the body at Pius X High School from 2005-2009. In 2013 Fr. Kilcawley completed a License in Sacred Theology at the John Paul II institute for marriage and family studies in Rome and returned to the Diocese of Lincoln as director of Religious Education. Fr. Kilcawley currently serves as the Director of the Office of Family Life and theological advisor for IntegrityRestored.com, a non-profit organization that seeks to restore the integrity of families affected by pornography by providing education and resources to individuals, spouses, parents and clergy; to both heal and prevent wounds inflicted by the sexualized culture.

Meet the Speaker: Amy Ricke, M.D. '03

Amy Ricke, M.D. ’03 is a Board-Certified Psychiatrist in Indianapolis. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Notre Dame with a degree in Science Pre-professional studies. She attended Case Western Reserve University for medical school where she was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Medical Honor Society. After completing her Psychiatry residency at Indiana University, she was in private practice providing psychiatric evaluation and treatment, as well as psychotherapy. Dr. Ricke has also served as the Director of Psychiatry for a residential eating disorder program in Indiana. She currently treats medical students and resident physicians at Indiana University School of Medicine, the largest medical school in the country. She also provides psychiatric care for college students via telemedicine and serves as a state-wide consultant for the CHAMP Program for healthcare providers in addiction, mental health, and perinatal psychiatry.

Dr. Ricke has a clinical interest and expertise in mood and anxiety disorders, developmental trauma and attachment, eating disorders, substance use disorders (addiction), sleep disorders, and women’s mental health (reproductive psychiatry). She has given numerous lectures and didactics over the years as a way to educate other mental health professionals and is a fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.

Meet the Speaker: Scott Weeman, M.A.

Scott Weeman is a beloved son of God, a husband, and a father. He is the founder of Catholic in Recovery, a community of individuals and families seeking freedom from various addictions, compulsions, and unhealthy attachments. Scott is the author of The Twelve Steps and the Sacraments and editor/compiler of The Catholic in Recovery Workbook, both published by Ave Maria Press. Weeman’s Catholic in Recovery organization won the top prize in the OSV Institute for Catholic Innovation Challenge Showcase in 2021.

Scott holds a master’s degree in clinical counseling from Point Loma Nazarene University and serves as an associate marriage and family therapist in addition to his ministry work. He has appeared on EWTN’s The Journey Home and Women of Grace and is a regular guest on Catholic Answers Live. His work has been featured on Aleteia and Patheos. He lives in San Diego, California, with his family.