#12231 Are Temperaments Fixed or Fluid? Catholic Answers to Personality Questions - Rose Sweet

Catholic Answers Live

Jun 09, 2025

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Episode description

Can your temperament shape your spiritual life? In this episode we explore how natural disposition, trauma, and personality types affect prayer, change over time, and whether they’re at odds with providence. Also—can you be a composite temperament?

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Questions Covered:

16:56 – Would my temperament have effect on my trouble with keeping focus on prayer life

30:34 – Can we have a composite of our temperaments?

42:33 – Can your temperament change during the course of your life?

49:40 – How do we square the idea of a temperament being “happy-go-lucky” with providence, when as Catholics we do not believe in luck?

52:37 – Is it possible to have early childhood trauma that shapes and forms your temperament?

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