Bishop says Yoga is not suitable for a parish school

I heard something recently where a priest criticised one of his parishioners who told him she had attended a meditation retreat at a Buddhist center in west Cork, the poor woman was very upset. My own Mum who's quite devout practices yoga, I'd like to see some clergyman tell her that yoga wasn't compatible with catholic teachings, she'd wipe the floor with him.

Copying this over from Waterford thread

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055531343&page=30

My own view -

people who complain are maybe missing the point namely the Bish is simply adhering very faithfully (!) to the doctrine of the religion which is his job. It's up to Catholics in the diocese to make their own decision about practicing aspects of Yoga faith and whether it is compatible with their "handed down" faith.

Says a man who wears a dress

joeguevara wrote: »

The catholic c hurch claimed scientists like Galileo and claimed them as heretics. Most science such as evolution is seen as blasphemous. Role of women was as servants. Contraception is outlawed.

I was talking about an long era prior to Galileo which is over emphasised anyway. Evolution isn’t seen as blasphemous in Catholicism btw. Contraception isn’t science.

To say that Catholicism was essential for ciVilisation to evolve is as far from the truth as possible.

How do you think it was essential? As opposed to Greeks assistance with philosophy, culture, etc. Or rome

It was essential to end the dark ages that Christianity spread, as it spread literacy across the continent. Catholic Christians founded the university systems across Europe.

Why not watch Ken Clarke’s civilisation.

The supposed hostility between science and Christianity is over emphasised as well, of course. The west had a scientific and industrial revolution long before it became majority atheist. And the scientific revolution started, by most accounts, in the 16C, (per wiki) the publication in 1543 of Nicolaus Copernicus's De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres) is often cited as marking the beginning of the Scientific Revolution. It’s clear then that science originated in a Christian Europe.

He was a canon or priest in the church. Many if not all of the scientists of the “enlightenment” (a bullsh1t term in my view) were Christian, as late as the 19C, Maxwell - the most important 19C physicist - was an elder in the scottish church.

Arguing that science originated in spite of Christianity would mean that Christianity wasnt all that powerful, which isn’t true.

And of course science evolved in Europe and nowhere else, it’s hardly out there to suggest that there’s something in the culture of Europe - in which Christianity plays a large part - that allowed it to develop there and not elsewhere.

Padre_Pio wrote: »

3 problems with that statement;

1) The "Dark Ages" began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire in late 400's AD. Catholicism was widespead for most of that time. St. Patrick was in Ireland in early 400's AD.

Christianity largely regressed after the fall of Rome. For instance the Anglo Saxons weren’t originally Christian which means that Britain de- Christianised for a while. The vikings weren’t Christian and were major impediments to civilisational growth given how destructive the raids were. The franks were pagan invaders of Christian Gaul. If these pagan tribes hadn’t Christianised it’s hard to see how Europe would have recovered, unless some kind of Roman Empire re-asserted.

2) The "Dark Ages" were actually quite enlightened. The Carolingian Renaissance occurred only 300 years after the fall of the Western Roman. Plenty of industrial and agricultural improvements and advances were made in Europe.

300 years is plenty long and the Carolingian Renaissance was a Christian Renaissance. I would end the dark ages about there, although there was a regression for a century.

Most of the agricultural improvements were in the later Middle Ages. Clearly agricultural and industrial growth depend on stability not continuous raids.

3) People only apply the "Dark Ages" concept to Europe. Middle East and Asia were in flying form at this time (until to Mongols started killing everyone) and advances in mathematics and logic introduced to Europe.

Total misconception to believe Europe was in the doldrums for centuries until widespread Catholicism raised it up.

This is totally confused. I didn’t say that the rest of the world wasn’t doing well in Europe’s dark ages since I was talking about Europe only and the supposed advances in matematics that came to Europe later on (your timeline is totally confused)
were adopted and improved upon in Christian Europe.