I do know he was using divining rods, which is a superstitious practice that the Church has condemned.
Well that's interesting, I had not heard that.
I recall hearing from an SSPX priest around 1990 that Archbishop Lefebvre's sister had this gift - I can't recall whether Mother Marie Gabriel or Mother Marie Christiane the Carmelite, however I think it was Mother Gabriel the cofounder of the Society nuns, as I seem to recall the story was in relation to finding water at the Society's newly aquired property in Albano.
Pseudoscience or natural gift? Wikipedia would say pseudoscience, but hearing the above story gave me reason to think otherwise.
Here is some interesting history from Wiki:
Early divination and religion 
Dowsing originated in ancient times, when it was treated as a form of
divination. The
Catholic Church, however, banned the practice completely.
[12]Reformer
Martin Luther perpetuated the Catholic ban, in 1518 listing divining for metals as an act that broke the
first commandment (i.e., as
occultism).
[12][13]Old texts about searching for water do not mention using the divining twig, and the first account of this practice was in 1568.
[14][15] Sir William F. Barrett wrote in his 1911 book
Psychical Research that:
...in a recent admirable Life of St. Teresa of Spain, the following incident is narrated: Teresa in 1568 was offered the site for a convent to which there was only one objection, there was no water supply; happily, a Friar Antonio came up with a twig in his hand, stopped at a certain spot and appeared to be making the sign of the cross; but Teresa says, "Really I cannot be sure if it were the sign he made, at any rate he made some movement with the twig and then he said, ' Dig just here '; they dug, and lo ! a plentiful fount of water gushed forth, excellent for 'drinking, copious for washing, and it never ran dry.' " As the writer of this Life remarks: "Teresa, not having heard of dowsing, has no explanation for this event", and regarded it as a miracle. This, I believe, is the first historical reference to dowsing for water.[16][17]
In 1662, divining with rods was declared to be "
superstitious, or rather
satanic" by a
Jesuit,
Gaspar Schott, though he later noted that he was not sure that the
devil was always responsible for the movement of the rod.
[18] In southern France in the 17th century, it was used to track criminals and
heretics. Its abuse led to a decree of the
inquisition in 1701, forbidding its employment for purposes of justice.
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