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I mentioned Fr. Pacwa because he's the only priest I've known to take on the topic of enneagrams with gusto. He has written articles, books, and has given speeches and interviews over the years. As I recall about 25 years ago, he gave speeches denouncing enneagrams, in which he explained that for a while he had gotten mixed up with the practice of using them (with other people), until he was blessed with discovering that they were leading him into perdition. Then he was able to get away from them before it was too late for him. So this is a powerful message from his personal experience. I never gave them a second thought after that, but knowing what I did based on what he had explained, it was later very easy for me to see how wayward modern Church literature and even parish priests were becoming.
There is a "Catholic" book store, Pauline Books and Media, in Culver City, CA, where they have a whole section of inventory on NewAge, psychology, feminism, and the like. I saw one book there that includes enneagrams in the topics covered. So then I knew that there was something surely amiss in that whole section, and by extension, the whole store. I tried to have a few conversations with the (apparent) nuns running the place and was in short order convinced they didn't really have much awareness of how NewAge materials and teachings are making a serious problem for what the Church teaches.
Not long after that, I attended a special series of talks that were billed as theological instruction, given at a local parish in the San Fernando Valley. They made it sound like it would be like a catechism class. But it wasn't. They held a meeting once a week for several weeks, before the priest/speaker started to get into what he had really been planning all along. So it was a practice of deception! At the third or fourth meeting he began to mention Thomas Merton, in tones of great reverence. Then the next week, he quickly got into Merton after a brief introduction and then there was no looking back. In retrospect, it had not been very clear to me what these talks had been trying to accomplish, but once he got into his pet subject of Merton, it was no longer questionable. Ever since then, I have been highly suspicious of Thomas Merton fans, and today, I'd put Merton on par with enneagrams as something that some disoriented Christians might think is okay, when they're really not okay at all.
Remember Sister Lucia's diabolical disorientation.
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