CD writes: “So many of my friends, who are very well educated, are suddenly getting involved in the Law of Attraction. Can you explain what this is and if Catholics can become involved in it?”
Category Archives: Occult
Cuban “Healer” Uses Machete to Treat Patients
A spiritual “healer” from Cuba, who claims he started healing 30 years ago after being visited by a spirit, treats as many as 150 patients a day and performs surgery with a machete – and no anesthesia.
Satan: The Ultimate Spin Doctor
Satan’s tactics haven’t changed much over the centuries, probably because they don’t have to. If we fall for the same tricks over and over again, why fix what’s not broken?
Can Catholics Use Crystals for Healing?
AK wrote about being given a crystal by a friend who said she should use it to find “clarity, atonement, and peace.” Certain that the object was given to her out of love and kindness, she now asks what she should do with it. “Do I just look at it as a pretty geode? Do I return it? I’m not interested in giving my friends the impression that I promote or believe in the power of crystals.”
Just in in Time for Easter Sunday: Satan Sneakers
It’s all so predictable – the week before Easter and it’s either the release of an outrageous film about Jesus being married or the annual Easter Sunday Hunky Jesus and Foxy Mary contest sponsored by the witless Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence – now it’s Satan Sneakers that come equipped with pentagons and a drop of real human blood in the soles.
Can Demons Infest Common House Pets?
ST asks: “I heard somewhere that it is possible for demons to enter into our house pets in order to harass us. Is this true?”
Keen Website Links Clients with Psychics
AB writes: “I was watching a show on Discovery the other day and they had a commercial about a new website called, Keen.com, where people can go to connect with a psychic, tarot card reader, astrologer, etc. What do you know about this site?”
Bishop Barres Warns Catholics About Mediums
A few months ago, Bishop John O. Barres of the Diocese of Rockville Center wrote a compassionate but firm letter to his flock warning them about the dangers of visiting mediums to contact their dead.
Dreamwork
ST asks: “What is so New Age about dreamwork? Doesn’t the Bible contain several stories about people, such as St. Joseph, who received important messages in their dreams?”
The Magic Tree House
JM writes: “I am writing about books widely available at school and ‘Scholastic’ called “The Magic Tree House” series by Mary Pope Osborne. Could this series be considered (occult)? My daughter read them a few years ago and she advises me now not to let her sister read them.”
