Pew study finds astrology, tarot, fortune-telling are popular: How should Catholics respond?

We should start by looking after our own house first. I've seen quite a few CrEaster/cafeteria-type Catholics who post more new agey stuff or excerpts from inspirational and self help books on their social media than they do anything related to the faith.

I think particularly of a friend of mine who seems obsessed with self-help/self-improvement books but she so obviously seems to be hurting (at least IMO) and I just wish we were good enough friends that I could tell her the Church has the healing she needs if she just dove into the depths of the faith and soaked it all in.

I guess my point is it would be prudent for the clergy and catechists to better educate the faithful and the catechumenate that all of this stuff like astrology, tarot, psychics, crystals, chakras, auras, etc is like spiritual heroin, the same as any false religion. Maybe indulging in it triggers some amazing feelings but it is fundamentally destroying you on the inside.

These are things I don't really get concerned with.

Astrology has only been around since the Zoroastrians, and for centuries an event wasn't important unless and until the Zoroastrian Priests showed up and claimed to have foreseen it.

Matthew didn't put the Zoroastrians into the birth of Christ story for no reason. Astrology played an important part of history, and it's printed in the paper every day and there's a app for it and who cares ?

Ouija boards were invented as a parlor game in the 1890's meant to be played by men and women as a kind of truth or dare game. Spiritualists didn't even get involved with them until after World War I when and whole trainload of men came back from the trenches PSTD'ed to the gills and looking for any answers they could find. That's the real "demonic" part if you ask me, people taking advantage of traumatized soldiers.

(BTW Ouija was originally pronounced oui (we) and ja (ya) as in yes in French and German. It's the only way I remember how to spell it.)

Tarot and Fortune Telling ? The vast majority of people do it fun at the carnival and then go ride the Ferris wheel after eating a corn dog. Or some other equivalent lark.

Again, who cares?

Look, guys:

We have real problems to solve, and we need serious people to solve them. Can we just leave this stupid stuff to the Evangelicals?