What Catholics Need to Know About Magic, Divination and the Occult
COMMENTARY: The Church distinguishes harmless entertainment from occult practices and warns against divination, sorcery and attempts to contact the dead.
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Atheism Is Fading, But This Uglier Beast Is Taking Its Place
Today’s prodigal sons have squandered their wealth to wallow in occultism. It is time for Catholics to repent of our bland deism, boldly proclaim Jesus Christ and his Church, and call our brothers and sisters home.
‘This Is Dangerous Stuff’: UK University Offers Course on ‘Occult Science’
Next fall, a university in the United Kingdom will be offering a graduate degree in occultism and magic, a program of study that will reportedly be the nation’s first master’s degree of its kind.
Strange and Spooky Things: Exorcist Reflects on Terrifying Consequences of a Post-Christian Search for ‘Spiritual Experience’
A Catholic University of America panel recently discussed some of the pitfalls of an increasingly secular mindset regarding spirituality.
Can You Recognize Superstition When You See It? Take This 10-Point Quiz to Find Out
‘Superstition is the deviation of religious feeling and of the practices this feeling imposes. … To attribute the efficacy of prayers or of sacramental signs to their mere external performance, apart from the interior dispositions that they demand, is to fall into superstition.’ (CCC 2111)
Witchcraft and Marriage Didn’t Mix for Tom Brady
Should we connect the dots between the occult and divorce?
Why All the Fascination With the Devil and Exorcism?
The curiosity exhibited by many Catholics toward demonic activity is real — and troubling.
Lent, Fasting and the Rise of the Occult (March 25)
How tough a Catholic are you? How would you have done with the Catholic Church’s practice of fasting if you lived 100 years ago? Today we discuss ‘Lent and Fasting (Now and Then)’ with Register staff writer Matthew McDonald. Then we turn to Register contributor Mary Frances Myler to discuss the troubling trend of interest in the occult and ways of ‘putting the devil on the run.’
How to ‘Put the Devil on the Run’ as Cultural Interest in the Occult Grows
Exorcist says active sacramental life isthe ordinary means of keeping the evil one at bay.
