
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.
Exorcist says active sacramental life isthe ordinary means of keeping the evil one at bay.
Since his conversion, Father Jean-Christophe Thibault has raised awareness about the harm of occult and esoteric practices that are more and more widespread in every sphere of society.
“All forms of divination are to be rejected. … Consulting horoscopes, astrology, palm reading, interpretation of omens and lots, the phenomena of clairvoyance, and recourse to mediums … contradict the honor, respect, and loving fear that we owe to God alone.” [CCC 2116]
Karma is trendy, but it’s also a lot darker and less hopeful than people realize.
Christian meditation is an active quest to live the life of Christ, which was anything but passive.
Apologist Matthew Arnold was involved in the occult when he met a priest who brought him into the Catholic Church
“When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.” —Émile Cammaerts
“I say to you, love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your heavenly Father, for he makes his sun rise on the bad and the good, and causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust.” (Matthew 5:44-45)
“Since the Ascension Christ's coming in glory has been imminent, even though ‘it is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has fixed by his own authority.’” (CCC 673)
Claims of apparition endorsement aside, such oils have been used for centuries in witchcraft for “protection.”
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