
CB asks: "
Someone recently asked me if Martial Arts was included in the New Age, in particular the Kyokushin Karate method. He knows someone heavily involved in this and wanted to find out if there was a problem with it. Could you please let me know if you have a booklet on this aspect, or any information about whether this is dangerous to The Catholic Faith?"
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MT asks:
“Can you please give me a list of the five to ten top reputable authorities you trust for assessing what is the real Catholic Contemplative Tradition.”
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While the mainstream media devoted extensive coverage to the senseless slaughter of 50 Muslim worshipers in two New Zealand mosques earlier this month, they uttered barely a word about the 120 Christians who were slaughtered in Nigeria by Muslim extremists during the same time.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Yes, you read that title right. Researchers are testing a new concept of synthetic hormone delivery for women by affixing special backings on jewelry such as earring, wristwatches, rings or necklaces which they say will “improve user compliance” with drug regimens.
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We have numerous questions from both patients and health care providers about the use of energy massage techniques such as Therapeutic Touch, Healing Touch, Hands of Light, Reiki, etc. in hospitals and hospice care. Are these practices New Age; if so, why are they so prevalent in health care facilities?
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A group of elderly women from
Hospice Cincinnati are being hailed as heroes after they succeeded in chasing off a man who was trying to strangle their priest by beating him with their canes.
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A coalition of actors, media and faith leaders have published an
open letter to the faith community in America urging parents not to let the R rating which was given to the pro-life movie,
Unplanned, deter them from taking their teens to the theater to see this movie.
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A court has ruled against restoring the medical license of Steven Chase Brigham, a notorious late-term abortionist who operated a clinic where the bodies of over 30 babies, one as old as 33 weeks, were found in a freezer.
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The Women of Grace New Age Q&A Blog gets a lot of repetitious email, but one of the most common is about psychics and mediums who knew intimate details about their lives and relationships. They all ask the same question – “How could this be?”
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NM writes:
“Thank you for providing this forum on New Age. I have been trying to find information about a type of prayer called Theophostic Prayer, a name coined by Ed Smith, a Protestant counselor who began to use this in his counseling sessions with great results and now he offers training in the technique. . .
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