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Ask a psychic why they don’t play the stock market or rake in big winnings at the Blackjack table. “It’s a gift for others,” they will tell you. Yet, that doesn’t stop them from charging top dollar for “readings” or selling tickets to their performances. Social workers they are not. Spiritually dangerous they are.
Every Catholic should know to steer clear of psychics of any sort yet interest in the occult is on the rise, no thanks to some celebrities—even some baptized Catholics—practitioners. For instance, Tom Brady—a baptized Catholic—has attributed his seventh Super Bowl win in part to his wife’s witchcraft.
This past summer Bishop John Barres of Rockville Centre, New York wrote a letter warning Catholics of its dangers to the soul. “But human nature always seeks assurance, and an increasingly popular supposed path to such assurance is recourse to mediums. On television and the internet we see countless mediums who travel far and wide claiming to connect the bereaved with loved ones on the ‘other side.’”
He pointed that the dangers of any sort of divination, especially consulting mediums to circumvent God, opens one up to demonic influence and it is actually from the devil. By blindly reaching into the supernatural, trying to know or control things, the devil shows up. Bishop Barres noted that some mediums even claim to be that be practicing Catholics and, “understandably, this strikes many as a beautiful work of faith, bringing solace to the sorrowful.”
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I Predict Trouble Ahead for Psychics – EpicPew
Every Catholic should know to steer clear of psychics of any sort yet interest in the occult is on the rise, no thanks to some celebrities—even some baptized Catholics—practitioners. For instance, Tom Brady—a baptized Catholic—has attributed his seventh Super Bowl win in part to his wife’s witchcraft.
This past summer Bishop John Barres of Rockville Centre, New York wrote a letter warning Catholics of its dangers to the soul. “But human nature always seeks assurance, and an increasingly popular supposed path to such assurance is recourse to mediums. On television and the internet we see countless mediums who travel far and wide claiming to connect the bereaved with loved ones on the ‘other side.’”
He pointed that the dangers of any sort of divination, especially consulting mediums to circumvent God, opens one up to demonic influence and it is actually from the devil. By blindly reaching into the supernatural, trying to know or control things, the devil shows up. Bishop Barres noted that some mediums even claim to be that be practicing Catholics and, “understandably, this strikes many as a beautiful work of faith, bringing solace to the sorrowful.”
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I Predict Trouble Ahead for Psychics – EpicPew
