A surprising look at astrology next with Father Hugh.

Hello and welcome to focus, the Catholic Answers Podcast for living, understanding, and explaining the Catholic faith.

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podcast when you give us that good review. This week I want to start out by

reading a little bit to you from the Catechism of the Catholic Church what the

church has to say about spooky things.

This is from paragraph 2116 in the Catechism.

All forms of divination are to be rejected, recourse to Satan or demons, conjuring up the dead or other practices

falsely is supposed to unveil the future.

Consulting horoscopes, astrology, palm reading, interpretation of omens and lots, the phenomenon

of clairvoyance and recourse to mediums, all conceal a desire for power over time, history, and in the last analysis other human beings, as well as a wish to

conciliate hidden powers.

They contradict the honor, respect, and loving fear that we owe to God alone.

All of this kind of takes the fun out of fortune cookies for me,

but it's a good reminder of how seriously the church

takes any attempt on our part to usurp the power of our Father in heaven.

God.

Opponents of the Catholic Church, however, will often point to all the astrology

and astrological symbols that are connected with the history of the Catholic Church to suggest that we don't reject astrology completely.

So what gives?

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