| | http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/02/us/02nuns.html?pagewanted=2
U.S. Nuns Facing Vatican Scrutiny - The article basically talks about how the Vatican is clamping down on the US Nuns, who they view as too liberal for their orthodoxy. That's not what really interested me in the article though. Towards the end, it had this line:
"Besides these two investigations, another decree that affected some nuns was issued in March by the Committee on Doctrine of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. The bishops said that Catholics should stop practicing Reiki, a healing therapy that is used in some Catholic hospitals and retreat centers, and which was enthusiastically adopted by many nuns. The bishops said Reiki is both unscientific and non-Christian."
For those that don't know, Reiki is a Japanese holistic healing method where you place your hands on your patient and send them Ki Energy (also known as "Chi" in Chinese). I'm a strong believer in it, as well as my aunt, who got me into it. It was discovered by a Buddhist Japanese man a couple centuries ago.
The Catholic Church decided that Reiki is unscientific and non-Christian. If a Christian man discovered it, I'm sure the Catholic Church would be hailing the miracle healing power of Reiki, and giving the discoverer Sainthood But since it was a Buddhist man, the practice of healing others with your hands isn't their cup of tea. I also got a chuckle out of the fact that they didn't like it cause it was "unscientific". The irony is just too funny.
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