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Posted by: Stone - 2 hours ago - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism
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Raleigh bishop allows pagan prayer ritual in Catholic church
A pagan 'smudging' ceremony and 'prayer in the four directions' took place in a Catholic Church
under the watch of the bishop of Raleigh during a celebration of 'multiculturalism.'
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(LifeSiteNews) — It has come to light that the bishop of Raleigh, North Carolina presided over a shamanistic “smudging” ceremony to celebrate St. Catherine “Kateri” Tekakwitha, who rejected her native Mohawk religion.
Pascua Taqui tribe member Richard Duran led the congregation of Holy Cross Catholic Church in Durham in a “smudging” ceremony in July, according to an archived page of North Carolina Catholics, a diocesan publication. Smudging is a shamanic ritual that involves burning herbs and resins to “cleanse” a space of negative energy and “brin(g) in good spirits,” according to a Native American site. The smoke is “shared with people as an act of prayer and spiritual connection,” NC Catholics reported.
“Father David Miller, who is chaplain to the Native American Catholic Community in the diocese and has ancestral ties to the Shawnee, Lenape and Cherokee tribes of his home state of Oklahoma, offered a traditional prayer in the four directions,” the report stated.
The prayer in the four directions is a pagan prayer traditionally understood to be directed to the Creator but also calls upon “spirits” associated with the North, South, East and West.
Despite its pagan origins, a version of the Prayer to the Four Directions is promoted by the Catholic Tekakwitha Conference. As shared by a Native American website, the prayer states, “Man did not create the web of life, but he is a strand in it. Whatever man does to the web, he does to himself.”
Ryan Dial of the Lumbee Tribe in North Carolina also introduced three Native traditional dances, performed by his wife, his sister, and another Native American. After lunch, Dial delivered a presentation on “colonization, false dichotomies, native religion and how to become an ally.”
Renée Fisher, an African Ancestry Ministry and Evangelization Network (AAMEN) and Native American Church (NAC) administrative assistant, encouraged those present to “embrace the whole world that surrounds them” while also treating traditions with reverence and remaining attuned, for example, to both the Church and Indigenous peoples. The idea that one should treat a pagan, Native tradition with reverence is contrary to the Catholic faith, since the honor and worship of false idols in pagan religions is an offense to God.
Bishop Luis Rafael Zarama of Raleigh earlier addressed the attendees, joking that he would dance “with his heart and not his body” during the celebration, NC Catholics said.
A flyer for the “multicultural celebration” reads “Sacred Earth, Sacred Unity: Walking Together with St. Kateri Tekakwitha,” and features an image of the saint superimposed on a cross.
St. Catherine “Kateri” Tekakwitha, who was renamed Catherine after St. Catherine of Siena, was a Mohawk Native American who converted to Catholicism at the age of 19 after coming into contact with French Jesuit missionaries from the age of 11. She took a vow of perpetual virginity and moved to the Jesuit mission village of Kahnawake, near Montreal.
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| Pope Leo calls for the Church to be an ‘open house’ with no ‘judging’ |
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Posted by: Stone - 2 hours ago - Forum: Pope Leo XIV
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Pope Leo calls for the Church to be an ‘open house’ with no ‘judging’
Leo’s prayer that the Church ‘listens without judging’ suggests that the Church refrains from judging objective matters of sin.
Oct 2, 2026
(LifeSiteNews) –– Pope Leo XIV has stated that he wants the Church to be an “open house” that “listens without judging.”
“May your Church be an open house, a safe space where everyone has a place — a community that accompanies and never excludes; that listens without judging; and that draws near without fear,” Leo said in his prayer video for October 2026.
Leo’s prayer intentions are dedicated this month to those who suffer from anxiety, depression, and other mental illnesses.
Christ Jesus and His Church indeed desire the healing of those who suffer from mental illness, and the Church is open to receiving anyone into her communion, provided they sincerely intend to live out the Catholic faith.
Leo’s prayer that the Church “listens without judging,” however, suggests or may easily be interpreted to suggest that the Church refrains from judging objective matters of sin. Rather, the Church in her charity defines situations in which sin, and especially mortal sin has been committed, so that the sinner may repent and be reconciled with God.
The prayer is reminiscent of Pope Francis’ repeated exhortations not to “judge.” He most famously said in 2013, regarding gay priests, “Who am I to judge?” In 2024, he urged people to remember Jesus Christ’s commandment to “never judge.”
Catholics cannot judge the subjective culpability of sinners, but Francis’ remark “Who am I to judge?” was widely interpreted by the mainstream media to mean that there is nothing wrong with homosexual behavior. This suggests similar statements from the pope that we should not “judge” will evoke similar interpretations.
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| Holy Mass in New Hampshire - October 4, 2026 |
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Posted by: Stone - 10-02-2026, 09:53 AM - Forum: October 2026
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Holy Sacrifice of the Mass - Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Date: Sunday, October 4, 2026
Time: Confessions - 10:00 AM
Holy Mass - 10:30 AM
Location: The Oratory of the Sorrowful Heart of Mary
66 Gove's Lane
Wentworth, NH 03282
Contact: 315-391-7575
sorrowfulheartofmaryoratory@gmail.com
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