UISG invites you to participate in the upcoming safeguarding formation webinar, which will take place on Thursday, November 3, 2025, from 2:00 to 5:00 PM (Rome time). The webinar will be held online.

This session will deepen the discussion started during the June webinar on spiritual abuse and abuse of power from a psychological perspective. On this occasion, the reflection will focus on abuse against adult women in religious contexts, particularly when the name of God is used to justify abusive behavior, silencing the conscience of the victims. This phenomenon—which may escalate into abuse of conscience and even sexual abuse—will be analyzed in its cultural, psychological, and religious dimensions.

The title of the webinar is: "You shall not use the name of God in vain", with the subtitle: "Abuse of adult women and false mysticism."
The session will explore how certain spiritual experiences, presented as authentic, may actually conceal manipulative and controlling mechanisms, creating profoundly harmful dynamics. The speaker will highlight the importance of adequate affective, sexual, and relational formation, enabling consecrated persons to live their vocation with inner freedom and maturity.

• Date: Thursday, November 3, 2025
• Time: 14:00–17:00 (Rome time)
• Format: Online (Zoom platform)
• Language: Spanish, English, Italian, French.

The speaker will be Sr. María Rosaura González Casas, a Mexican religious sister from the Congregation of the Company of Saint Teresa of Jesus. She holds degrees in Chemistry, Theology, and Psychology, and a PhD in Psychology from the Pontifical Gregorian University, where she currently serves as Director of the Institute of Psychology. Her doctoral dissertation focused on gender and relationships in the thought of Nancy Chodorow and Teresa of Ávila.

Since 2018, she has worked full-time at the Gregorian University and has coordinated various formation programs in Latin America, including the safeguarding diplomas of the University’s Centre for Child Protection and of CLAR-CELAM. She has accompanied many religious sisters, brothers, and priests in their formation processes since 1993. From 2017 to 2022, she coordinated the Safeguarding and Protection Commission for Minors and Vulnerable Adults of CLAR, and she was a member of the USG-UISG Commission for the Protection of Minors and Vulnerable Adults until June 2025.

Throughout her career, she has published extensively on spirituality, mysticism, and formation, and in recent years has also contributed actively to reflection and action around the creation of safe environments in the Church.