'A Catholic bishop has launched what he calls a “delivery ministry” to rid people of dark spirits and combat forces of evil terrifying his diocese in rural Ireland. So far, he claims to have received “several requests” for help.
Bishop Alphonsus Cullinan has already taken on his first apprentice, who will be trained in defense against the dark arts at his diocese of Waterford and Lismore. He warns that reiki and other new-age techniques for healing and cleansing the soul may, in fact, welcome in dark forces or even “the devil” himself.
You're channelling energies, in inverted commas, you could well be opening yourself up to letting a spirit in which is not good and is dangerous stuff, actually,” Cullinan told local radio station WLR FM, as cited by The Irish Times.
He claims the brother of a local reiki healer says “he saw a vision of Satan” while performing the hands-on-healing, through which universal energy is transferred to encourage emotional or physical healing, on a client. The healer was reportedly “scared out of his wits, dropped the reiki and went back to the Church.”
Cullinan wants to protect members of his newfound order from evil spirits and those who “have been involved in some kind of new-age thing or some kind of séance or that kind of thing,” who may have inadvertently, “opened up a door to an evil force, Satan.”'
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