It is not necessary for a person to be psychosexually free of problems in order to be holy (Beirnaert, 1964; Groeschel, 1983; Peck, 1993). Groeschel (1983) pointed out that "many canonised saints struggled throughout life with scars and pathologies from childhood" (p. 95). Saint Benedict Joseph Labre, for example, suffered from a substantial tendency toward psychosis. St. Paul struggled with what he called "a thorn in the flesh" all through his life (2 Cor 12:7). Henri Nouwen, one of the great spiritual masters of our times, suffered from loneliness and severe depression and struggled with his homosexual inclinations right till the end of his life. Speaking of a woman schizophrenic patient whom he treated for over eighteen years Peck (1993) observed that "while there has been no improvement in her schizophrenia or growth in her social skills, there has been immense growth in her soul." He went on to add that he has "seen patients who have been correctly diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease who have made considerable spiritual strides in their lives since that diagnosis" (p. 248).