What is the Vatican's position on the practice of Reiki in the Catholic Church?

Answer 1

A quick Google search brings up the following web page:

http://causa-nostrae-laetitiae.blogspot.com/2009/03/usccb-clarifes-church-position-on-reiki.html

Basically, the Catholic Church sees Reiki as a bunch of superstition that distracts from the worship of God, which is rather ironic since praying to God for healing could be seen as being superstitious itself.

--euphgeek ---- A Catholic answer: The above answer uses the word superstition in a way different from the way the Catholic Church uses it. While many secular materialists categorize a belief in the existence of anything undetectable to the senses - faith in God and prayer, for example - as superstition, Catholic, and Judaeo-Christian philosophers in general have always distinguished between belief in the existence of entities our senses cannot directly detect, but which careful inquiry by reason, informed by the senses, can discover and affirm to be true, vs. entities which neither our senses can detect nor our reason affirm to be true even by careful inquiry. A persistent affirmation of the existence of the latter, the Church defines as superstition. In addition to failing to distinguish between faith in God and superstition, the first answerer has also responded to a question about the Vatican with a link to the website of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, thus revealing his or her failure to distinguish between Rome, Italy and Washington, D.C. , U.S.A. To remedy that, as well: Rome is at 41° 54'N, 12° 27' E, and Washington, D.C. is at 38° 53', 77°02'. Rome is the capital of Italy, where the Vatican is situated, and Washington, D.C. is the capital of the U.S.A. where the U.S. bishops meet periodically and decide things.