SM writes:
"Many years ago before I knew what Reiki is about I bought a CD of "new age" relaxation music. I bought it on the strength of the sample one could listen to in the store, but the CD was marketed as being good for background music during Reiki massage. It was clearly created with the intention of being used during Reiki, given the packaging and liner notes. Do you recommend that I get rid of it?"
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"You ought to use great caution, even in doing
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Father Miguel Pajares
As the Ebola outbreak continues to spread through West Africa, now claiming the life of a nun and a priest along with 1,000 others, Catholics in hard-hit areas are being asked to change their worship habits in a desperate attempt to check the deadly progress of the disease.
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Chaldean Catholic Patriarch of Iraq, His Beatitude Louis Rafael Sako
At the request of the chairman of the Committee of International Justice and Peace, Bishop Richard E. Pates of Des Moines, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is asking the people in all U.S. dioceses to pray for peace in Iraq on Sunday, August 17.
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"Humility is one of the most difficult virtues both
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Archbishop Silvani Tomasi
Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Holy See's Permanent Observer to the United Nations in Geneva, is signaling approval for U.S. airstrikes in Iraq aimed at checking the encroachment of the brutal Islamic State in Iraq and to protect targeted ethnic minorities.
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Officials at the Fremont Unified School District has district have agreed to shelve the use of a controversial sex ed textbook that outraged parents for its graphic depiction of activities such as the use of sex toys, masturbation, and sexual bondage.
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Even as the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) proceeds with its annual assembly this week during which they will honor a dissenting nun, the Pew Center Research Center is reporting that the number of nuns in the U.S. is continuing its steep decline.
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The fate of a pair of twin babies conceived via IVF and born last week - to the wrong mother - is now held in the hands of an Italian judge.
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CR asks:
"Is aroma touch considered new age?"
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SM writes: "Many years ago before I knew what Reiki is about I bought a CD of "new age" relaxation music. I bought it on the strength of the sample one could listen to in the store, but the CD was marketed as being good for background music during Reiki massage. It was clearly created with the intention of being used during Reiki, given the packaging and liner notes. Do you recommend that I get rid of it?"
