{"id":24470,"date":"2009-03-26T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/03\/reiki-catholic-faith-the-answe\/"},"modified":"2009-03-26T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T17:30:00","slug":"reiki-catholic-faith-the-answe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/03\/reiki-catholic-faith-the-answe\/","title":{"rendered":"Reiki &#038; Catholic Faith? the answer is no"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font size=\"3\"><\/font><font color=\"#000000\"><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"DISPLAY: inline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Reiki%20symbol.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px 20px\" height=\"250\" alt=\"Reiki symbol.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Reiki%20symbol-thumb-175x250.jpg\" width=\"175\" \/><\/a><\/span>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/dpp\/doctrine.htm\">US Bishops&#8217; Committee on Doctrine<\/a> approved on March 24<sup>th<\/sup> and released on the 25<sup>th<\/sup> the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/dpp\/Evaluation_Guidelines_finaltext_2009-03.pdf\">Guidelines for Evaluating Reiki as an Alternative Therapy<\/a>. Read the Guidelines&nbsp;for yourself. I suppose this important stuff; I usually look for liturgical heterodoxy and various heretical teachings first&#8230;but the bishops have a point. Since I am not a life force, universal or otherwise, I&#8217;ll throw away my Reiki books.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Bishops&#8217; Committee on Doctrine approved on March 24th and released on the 25th the Guidelines for Evaluating Reiki as an Alternative Therapy. Read the Guidelines&nbsp;for yourself. I suppose this important stuff; I usually look for liturgical heterodoxy and various heretical teachings first&#8230;but the bishops have a point. Since I am not a life &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/03\/reiki-catholic-faith-the-answe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reiki &#038; Catholic Faith? the answer is no<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,32],"tags":[2023],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}