YOGA PRIESTS LEAVE THE CHURCH
Pune-ites inform me about one Fr. Anthony Lobo who was teaching yoga in Poona diocese; he left the Church in 2004:
“Fr Anthony Lobo is a very senior priest (contemporary of Bishop Valerian D'Souza), who was a proponent of Yoga. He has been to Germany and other places across the globe and I understand that he is… someone high in Yoga. He has left the Priesthood about a year or so ago, got married and has gone abroad somewhere. He must be around 72 or 73 years old.”
Yoga is Hindu. Hinduism is “soaked into the marrow” of yoga’s bones says Belgian priest Fr. J. M. DeChanet, author of books on yoga who also left the Church after priests promoted his work openly in Bombay archdiocese.
Yet our seminarians are compelled to do yoga in their formation, our priests write books on yoga and practise yoga, our Bishops approve and encourage these priests and support yoga programmes in their dioceses. Yoga is rampant in the Church. So, what is this YOGA ?
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