Here we go again with the media and their idea of "devout" Catholics. This time, we read of a "devout" 'divorced & remarried' Catholic, a "devoted follower of astrology," who wrote a regular horoscope column (which her own daughter said - not disapprovingly - was "like her third child"). Will someone kindly explain to the media what it really means to be a devout Catholic? And please be sure your explanation includes holding all Church doctrine & following all Church rules.
"All forms of divination are to be rejected: recourse to Satan or demons, conjuring up the dead or other practices falsely supposed to 'unveil' the future. Consulting horoscopes, astrology, palm reading, interpretation of omens and lots, the phenomena 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. (Catechism of the Catholic Church)
"Now, against the sacrilegious and impious darings of reason, we assert both that God knows all things before they come to pass, and that we do by our free will whatsoever we know and feel to be done by us only because we will it. But that all things come to pass by fate, we do not say; nay we affirm that nothing comes to pass by fate; for we demonstrate that the name of fate, as it is wont to be used by those who speak of fate, meaning thereby the position of the stars at the time of each one's conception or birth, is an unmeaning word, for astrology itself is a delusion." (St. Augustine, Doctor of the Church)
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