A Michigan woman is claiming to channel Padre Pio and other spirits. She has a daughter who communicates with angels. She is an award-winning Catholic catechist but somehow missed the part about mediumship being a sin. As far as I'm concerned she's communicating with demons and merits reproach for channeling anyone. I'm surprised the reporter didn't ask the diocese what they thought. I hope they do something about her and warn her of the dangers she is engaging in.
(Thanks to Tom S.)
Her younger brother, James Uhl, a psychologist and ex-Jesuit, encouraged her in her strange activity specifically in "channeling" Padre Pio.
Dr. Uhl is described on the Center for Conscious Living website (www.ccltoledo.org), where both of them are listed as speakers (along with a list of other dubious characters) as "a Psychotherapist, Teacher, Lecturer and Spiritual Life Coach. His non-traditional approach to wellness includes working with dreams, Past-Life Regression Therapy and Spirit Release Work. He is a past Jesuit and was an Assistant Chaplain to the men on Death Row at San Quentin Prison. He left the Jesuits in 1990 to pursue his doctorate."
Seems odd that you'd have to leave the Jesuits to pursue a doctorate. At least that's what they make it sound like.
Great: the award-winning religion teacher is taking psychological and spiritual advice from her brother who believes in "past lives". Padre Pio would have cleaned his clock -- I mean, he would have given him a good reframing.