A religious wrote to ask if we know anything about Chinese decorative knots. “
They are red, and come in various designs and I believe go back hundreds if not thousands of years. I've read they can signify different things like luck, romance, love, etc. We have received, from a Chinese Priest, holy images of Our Lord and Our Lady which are decorated with these knots. Is there anything to be concerned about there? Should we remove the decorations?”
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RS writes: "
I am reading self-help books about personal safety. The books stress the importance of intuition. Problem is, I had an intuition that the safety of my child was compromised but when I asked the (very young, not easy to converse with age) child they said nothing happened. But what about what my intuition said? I'm in such a worry. Is intuition real? Is it a God given thing? Since we are not perfect and don't know everything, how can my intuition or gut tell me things? Where did the use of 'mother's intuition' begin? Is intuition new age?"
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The mental health community is reacting with alarm after Prince Harry debuted in a widely-watched livestream interview with trauma expert Dr Gabor Mate in which he claimed cannabis and an illegal psychedelic drug named ayahuasca helped him to deal with mental health issues after his mother’s death.
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KK writes: "
As a counter to yoga, why not publicize/popularize/promote our own prayer posture . . . to promote our rich heritage to satisfy the contemporary hunger for an all inclusive, whole being relationship with Our Majesty?"
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A new report from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) found that 57% of teen girls felt persistently sad or hopeless in 2021—double that of boys and nearly 60% more than the highest level reported over the past decade. What role is social media playing in this disturbing decline?
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Anne Rice (1941-2021)
NT writes: "Not sure if you can help me, but I'm having a difficult time discerning if Christ The Lord Out of Egypt by Anne Rice is a good book to read? It's was selected by my parish book club."
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Wikicommons Images, Archives des jésuites de France (CC BY-SA 3.0)
LE writes: "There seems to be a resurgence of the life and philosophies of this man . What is going on? Have the people forgotten his history. I wanted to look him up in your list under new age but I couldn't find him. Could you put out an exposé' on him?"
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FC asks: "I was wondering if you are familiar with a bracelet called 'Eye of Medusa'? From what I understand, it sounds very suspicious."
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Crimes against Catholics continued unabated this week when Auxiliary Bishop David O’Connell of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles was found murdered in his bed on the same weekend that a pipe bomb was discovered behind one of Philadelphia’s oldest Catholic churches.
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DB writes:
“I listen to your show almost daily on EWTN on my Sirius XM on the way to work. I heard you talking about Reiki a few times over the last couple of weeks and I felt called to share my experience.”
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