The Hindu Ideal for the Catholic Priest
            The AoD once again Promotes its Own Demise

            Guess what. The Archdiocese of Detroit is using your Catholic Services Appeal dollars to form priests in Hinduism.

            In the past decades, more and more Catholics have been turning to either Eastern or pretend-Eastern versions of religion and faith. They have turned from the spiritual life, the degrees of perfection, the stages of the interior life or the scale of Charity, to hide their disordered self-love under that delightfully vague term, “spirituality.”

            Hindu and Buddhist mysticism, for these poor souls, seems to be the cure for the emptiness from which they suffer. Instead of converting to faith in Jesus Christ, they seek Yoga, health fads, karma, Wicca, astrology, centering prayer, pantheism and panentheism, lots of this world and none of the supernatural world, Gaia, chakras, and other lies.

            But really all this New Age nonsense amounts to nothing more than paganism.

            The 2007 Clergy Fall Retreat sponsored by the Office for Clergy Life and Ministry of the Archdiocese of Detroit. On Nov. 12-16, a certain Fr. Martin Iott will be leading it. See, inviting dear Fr. Rohlheiser to address the week long priestly Archdiocesan Convocation, already held this fall, was merely an appetizer.

            The Office for Clergy put out the add with the sentence, “[he] has recently moved to the Dominican Ashram in Adrian, MI. There he is continuing his ministry in itinerant preaching,” blah, blah, blah. And blah.

            An “ashram” is defined “Hinduism. A usually secluded residence of a religious community and its guru.” Now, did he really say a “Dominican Ashram?” I guess the only thing left is for the Jesuits to build a synagogue, and for the Franciscans to build a mosque.

            Now, if a Catholic religious is so confused as to call his religious house an Ashram, it is clear that he has abandoned not only all reason, but has exchanged Catholicism for a slice of your pop-culture variety New Age spirituality.

            The mailings go out by the hundreds, and who knows if more. As dawn is to day, so the term “crisis” is to the catastrophic situation in which this Archdiocese finds itself. The solution is in reform, not in Dominican Hindus.