Bishops say Reiki is a no no- watch the fun !

[flidaisairmid]

Does not surprise me, but rather amuses me. Wonder how my husband, the ordained Roman Catholic Deacon , is going to react to this. If you are a Deacon it is your oathbound duty to follow the dictates of the Bishop and the Magesterium. ( Brat in me is giggling here- we have fun debating these technicalities

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[hengruh]

Oh, this, and associated topics are the kind of thing that I could gnaw on for days

[flidaisairmid]

And here is another technicality that has come into play in our own lives- your Bishop may not be in agreement with the stated Bishops whom have made whatever pronouncement they have made. Sort of like a regional law thing. What a Bishop pronounces is valid ONLY in his Diocese, and not church wide. Only the Pope, speaking Ex-cathedra can do this, and incidentally has only done so 2 times in the entire history of the Church and only matters pertaining to the Doctrine of Mary if memory serves.The Bishop who Ordained my husband as well as the Diocese it was done in is not on the list, so technically it does not apply, or can be ignored. This is just one rather interesting twist of events. He has had to undergo an FBI background check because he is a Cantor, singing in the presence of Children as well as the one he had to undergo shortly after he was Ordained because he was able to counsel children. The Priest scandal and all that. He was rather miffed about those, but understood the reasons and agreed to it

[hengruh]

Yes, exactly as you said about it really depending on the individual bishop, as I noted in #2

[flidaisairmid]

I think the whole body of the Catholic Church's theology is one of the greater mental jigsaw puzzles of our age- or at least of our species. Because we are a mixed faith household and i am known for striring up things for sport it seems, while my husband was undergoing the Ministry training and Seminary light portions of his training( a long 8 year process), I entertained myself with reading the entire new Catechism and Code of Cannon law just to keep up with him. As a result , some things I have a deeper understanding of the Church's position than he does , and with my esoteric studies it has helped me to put some things in a very interesting perspective. It makes for lively conversations between us

[phoenixminstrel]

I suspect he is going to just file the info under the "that's nice to know" heading and continue to do as he always has. It is going to make for a very interesting discussion between us though. I will be torn between being a brat and helping to support him in his discernment.

I've been filing most of the Catholic Church's pronouncements under the "that's nice" heading for the last ten years. Seems to me the hierarchy is becoming quite Pharisaical (like the Pharisees of Jesus' time), if you catch my drift.

This issue won't draw nearly as much attention as the Church's position on abortion. But it makes an interesting paradox. On the one hand, you can't take a life in the womb. On the other, you can't preserve a life outside the womb with Reiki.

Somewhere along the way, the concept of God as Creator of all things got lost. Same with the maxim given by Jesus himself, "that which is not against us is for us."

Oh, I should also mention that as far as the document itself goes, the believability starts heading south in Paragraph 2:

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[flidaisairmid]

I suspected as much as to your reaction, but never has something come along that made a pronouncement on something you were so closely connected with. I know you are doing an interesting tightrope walk theologically ( and in some ways more like a web walk), I was not quite certain of the impact