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It amazes me that Christians believe in the Bible, but most do not recognize spirit attachment as real. Removing attached spirits was a very common healing method for Jesus. In 1993 a 38 year old Emergency Room nurse came to me for pain management using hypnosis. I had just learned hypnosis and a mutual friend told her about me. She had a letter from her Dr. I requested stating that it was ok to use hypnosis as pain management, as pain is a symptom and blocking it may result in not detecting a serious illness like cancer. The pain in...

A Journey to Detachment Msgr. Charles Pope • September 12, 2018 • In daily Mass (Wednesday of the 23rd Week of the Year) we read St. Paul’s almost ominous words about our need to break free from attachments to this world:I tell you, brothers, the time is running out. From now on, let those having wives act as not having them, those weeping as not weeping, those rejoicing as not rejoicing, those buying as not owning, those using the world as not using it fully. For the world in its present form is passing away (1 Cor 7:29-31).In this...

What Attachments Are and What They Are Not Msgr. Charles Pope • January 22, 2018 • This past Sunday, we read St. Paul’s almost ominous words about our need to break free from attachments to this world:I tell you, brothers, the time is running out. From now on, let those having wives act as not having them, those weeping as not weeping, those rejoicing as not rejoicing, those buying as not owning, those using the world as not using it fully. For the world in its present form is passing away (1 Cor 7:29-31).In this passage St. Paul speaks...

What Attachments Are and What They Are Not Msgr. Charles Pope • October 15, 2015 • For most of us, attachments to this world are THE struggle that most hinders our spiritual growth. 80% of the spiritual life is a battle about desire and the fundamental question, “What do you want most, the world and its pleasures, or God and his Kingdom?” So easily this world gets its hooks into us and we become attached to it. It is hard to break free from inordinate desires.But what are attachments, and what are they not? Are there ways we can distinguish...

I have several large PDF files to email and whenever I try to attach them to a yahoo email I get sent to Dropbox -- I HATE Dropbox. How do I send these files without Dropbox?

Do you remember "the speech"? You know, the one Barack Obama gave before the Democratic convention that nominated John Kerry for president. The one that brought him to national attention and first implanted the idea that he would make a good chief executive. That was the speech where he told the nation it was time for racial reconciliation. It was where he echoed Rodney King's plea that "we all just get along,"- only more eloquently. Here was an intelligent African-American. Here was someone we could trust. This compared favorably with the impressions left by other prominent blacks. Political figures such...

Has anyone noticed the degradation of political activism as reflected in the quality of e-mail forwards? During the election, when this country was in the grip of political passion, the internet hummed with outraged forwards explicating and excoriating the current snakepits and malevolence of public policy. Every citizen in possession of a computer (and that's every citizen! Some citizens have several, one in every color for every mood!) forwarded madly his or her opinions. These forwards, judging by volume and pitch, were not just opinions: they were expressions of the forwarder's innermost soul, as radical in their way as the...

I have been a student of human nature and philosophy for many years, even into the kookier side of these subjects. One of the frustrating things I notice from those on the right is they argue well in a rational sense, but many or most punches don't hit home because they are not addressing the emotional content the left worships above rational thought. Two of the most corrosive arguments I use against a leftist are these: 1. That their beliefs are shame based; You yourself are of no value unless you sacrifice your life for another, thus to become valuable...