JV writes: “I recently came across a website that featured a painting of St. Vincent Ferrer holding Buddhist mala beads. How can this be?”
New Age mysticism is always looking for credibility, especially among the lucrative Christian market, and they are not above misappropriating our saints, especially the giants of Christian mysticism such as St. Teresa of Avila.
In honor of the 50th anniversary of the dedication of the new Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City, and the transfer of the image of the Virgin to the current shrine on October 12, 1976, Pope Leo has declared a special jubilee year.
BW writes: “My husband is a very sick man with several serious medical problems and while I was looking up different medicinal ways of helping him I came across a different way of practicing medicine which is called Functional Medicine. After asking someone about Functional Medicine I was told that it works, and many people have been healed by it. My concern is if you know anything about it and if you do does it have anything to do with New Age or the occult? I do not want us to get involved with anything like that.”
The Witches of Cambridge, another book glorifying the use of witchcraft and magic by Alice Hoffman, author of the Practical Magic series, has become an instant best-seller on the New York Times Bestseller List. But is this book appropriate for Catholics?
by Theresa Cavicchio, OFSEach year, the October 4th feast of Saint Francis of Assisi (1182 - 1226 A.D.), is celebrated by Christians, non-Christians, and non-believers alike; not only in Franciscan circles but all over the world. The beloved “Little Poor Man” of Assisi -- gentle, humble, and joyful -- has gathered quite a diverse following indeed!
The deaths of two University of Mississippi students last week, both of whom were found to be in possession of kratom, has reignited the controversy over the dangers associated with this opioid-like supplement.
September 30
“Books are the most wonderful friends in the world. When you meet them and pick them up, they are always ready to give you a few ideas. When you put them down, they never get mad; when you take them up again, they seem to enrich you all the more.”
-Blessed Archbishop Fulton Sheen
LJ writes: "What is the difference between yoga exercises and secular isometric exercises, and why do so many of them look exactly alike? It's very confusing for those of us who want the health benefits of yoga but without the religious baggage."
September 29
“Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is 'timing' it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.”
-Blessed Archbishop Fulton Sheen
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