[television is just wrong]

sorry that is creepy.

[SumProVita]

One word: Counterfeit

[wideawake]

Faker.

[3AngelaD]

It is creepy on several levels, and I am a practicing Roman Catholic. I think it is interesting this woman is a “ex-nun” who married and had children, and she was urged to begin “channeling” by her brother, a “former priest.”

[Artemis Webb]

Show me a channeler, medium, professional psychic, etc and I’ll show you a liar and a fraud.

A hand full of them are just delusional. The vast majority of them are con artist. NONE of them are legitimate.

[50sDad]

Ummmm, guys? It’s called “necromancy”, and it’s rather harshly dealt with in Deuteronomy, I believe. This woman needs an exorcism, not a cheery little puff piece.

[DouglasKC]

She is doing exactly what the bible says not to do:

Lev 19:31 Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I [am] the LORD your God.

Isa 8:19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?

For those not familiar with the term "familiar spirit" it's exactly what she's doing. She's not channeling the dead. Nobody channels the dead. She is communicating with a demon who is pretending to be the dead person. A spirit that seems familiar. That's why God prohibits the practice in the strongest term.

[mkjessup]

Maybe she could conjure up King Saul and ask him how things turned out with the Witch of Endor and that time he conjured up the spirit of the Prophet Samuel?

[LiteKeeper]

Once again, mysticism and the occult raise their heads in the “church.” My sense is that she is not channeling Padre Pio...but someone else...if the Scriptures are to be believed!

[I'm ALL Right!]

"a director of the Children's Theatre Workshop"

An actress. 'nuff said.

[Titanites]

From the Catechism of the Catholic Church:

2116 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.

2117 All practices of magic or sorcery, by which one attempts to tame occult powers, so as to place them at one's service and have a supernatural power over others - even if this were for the sake of restoring their health - are gravely contrary to the virtue of religion. These practices are even more to be condemned when accompanied by the intention of harming someone, or when they have recourse to the intervention of demons. Wearing charms is also reprehensible. Spiritism often implies divination or magical practices; the Church for her part warns the faithful against it. Recourse to so-called traditional cures does not justify either the invocation of evil powers or the exploitation of another's credulity.

[magisterium]

Totally contrary to Catholic teaching. It is a serious sin to attempt to contact the dead on your own initiative. That is why seances, among other things, are always wrong. If, in His infinite wisdom, and through His own initiative, God chooses to send an angel or saint to appear before one of us with a message, that it one thing. But to seek this out on our own is wrong; it tempts God just as Satan tried to tempt Our Lord after He fasted for 40 days.

Consider that this "former" Ursuline nun has, like many of her now-blue haired compatriots, long since abandoned the core of the Catholic Faith for the New Age Movement. She may have some vague patina left, but it is meaningless. Just as her current activity is totally meaningless for any faithful Catholic.

[Campion]

alternative spirituality

"Heresy" is a lot shorter and easier to pronounce. :-0

[hkp7m8]

As she is able to “channel” Padre Pio as well as the Arch-Angel Gabriel. There should be no issue in conducting these interviews in impeccable Latin or Italian or just about any other language that the ex- nun has not studied. Right??

[lastchance]

BUZZZZZ. Sorry wrong answer, “accepted Catholic practice” is not correct. I’m thinking there is a dang good reason for the word former in front of Ursuline Nun.

[HighlyOpinionated]

This activity is satanic. God does not "channel" His Saints through anyone. There's no need for God to work this way.

What is sad is that this woman is going to lead others who have weak faith away from Christ and the Church with her activity. There is no "alternate" way to be a Catholic. There's the Catholic Church, the Magisterium, the Traditions and that's it. Channeling is not listed under any sub-category.

Where is the Bishop and Archbishop? They are failing to do their jobs if they don't talk to her to give up this foolishness and return to the Catholic Faith. If she refuses, she should be PUBLICLY ex-communicated. She's the one who has publicized her little chicanery and those with weak faith need to know that she does not represent Catholicism.

WHEN will people read their Bibles, the Catechism, and go talk to a Priest before they put their faith in something "outside" the Church?

[DallasDeb]

The Bible says we should NOT speak to the dead.

[Petronski]

Fay-ake.

[Antoninus]

This woman is either a fraud or she is possessed. This type of spiritualism is specifically condemned by the Catholic Church and it is forbidden for Catholics to practice it.

The fact that she is a *former* nun should tell you something.