Some Christian leaders and clergy find Transcendental Meditation compatible with their religious teachings and beliefs while others do not. Catholic monk Wayne Teasdale writes in his book ''The Mystic Heart: Discovering a Universal Spirituality in the World's Religions'', that Transcendental Meditation "is what is called an open or receptive method" that can be described as giving up control and remaining open in an inner sense. In 1968, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Michael Ramsey, "came to the support of Maharishi's theory." Trappist monks in Spencer, Massachusetts, say they find it useful. But in 1984, Cardinal Jaime Sin, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Manila, wrote a pastoral statement after Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos invited more than 1,000 members of the TM movement to Manila, saying that neither the doctrine nor the practice of TM is acceptable to Christians. In 2003, the Roman Curia, a Vatican council, published a warning against mixing eastern meditations, such as TM, with [[Christian prayer. Other Clergy who practice the TM technique and find it compatible with their religious beliefs include: Catholic Father Len Dubi and Donald Craig Drummon, a Presbyterian minister. In 2013, Monsignor Raffaello Martinelli, servicing Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, having worked for over 23 years with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI), said that for his Meditation, a Christian can learn from other religious traditions (zen, yoga, controlled respiration, Mantra): "As long as the Catholic Church rejects nothing of what is true and holy in these religions, we should not despise these indications since non-Christian. Instead, we can collect from them what is useful, provided you never lose sight of the Christian conception of prayer, its logic and requirements, since it is within this that all these fragments must be reformulated and assumed.
i personly, only go to church once in a blue moon. but catholic churchs still use the term CCD for religious teaching programs.
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You shoud be well versed with the catholic religion and it's way of life and being, also approach catholic places,churchs and meetings of catholic people. Try to search on the internet too.
he changed it because his wife Henrietta Maria was French and catholic and he did not want any French or catholic in his house .
The church teaches that all life is sacred and for a sexual act to be moral it must be open to life
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most of the people on earth don't recognize the pope. even other churchs don't recognise the pope. he is recognised as the head of the catholic church, but that's about it as far as non catholics go.
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Schools and churchs