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I dunno.\u00a0 I wonder what great Catholic traditions the Hindus are borrowing.\u00a0 The thing about this<\/a> is it seems almost evangelistic.\u00a0 As if somehow the Catholic meditative tradition isn\u2019t enough, we need to find The Better Way.\u00a0 I know many folks insist that yoga can be as religious-neutral as checkers, but I\u2019m having a hard time buying it.\u00a0 A good place to start would be here<\/a>, with the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.\u00a0 There\u2019s enough red flags and warning signs for me to think there has to be a way less fraught with the danger of slipping and sliding into the modern melting pot of religious relativism.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"