Superstition! Healing Your Family Tree

The new-age and superstitious fad of "Healing Your Family Tree" is re-surfacing in some Catholic circles, as it did twenty years ago. Unfortunately, due to theological error and widespread ignorance, this fad is fuelled by imprudent, would-be exorcists, encouraging DIY exorcisms.
Anyone who has heard of the so-called generational curses, etc described by Fr. Chad Ripperger and co. would appreciate this podcast.
Renowned Australian theologian, Fr Peter Joseph, gives timely guidance in dealing with the dark side according to the living Tradition of the Church.
Read by the Conventual Sisters of St Dominic.
Further References:
Scripture: John 9:3, Luke 13:2,4. Luke 6:28, Acts 19:13-17.
Church Law:
"Canon 1172 §1. No one can perform exorcisms legitimately upon the possessed unless he has obtained special and express permission from the local ordinary.
§2. The local ordinary is to give this permission only to a presbyter who has piety, knowledge, prudence, and integrity of life."
Church Document:
Directory on Popular Piety and the Liturgy, Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, 2001:
"217. Popular devotion to the Holy Angels, which is legitimate and good, can, however, also give rise to possible deviations:
- when, as sometimes can happen, the faithful are taken by the idea that the world is subject to demiurgical struggles, or an incessant battle between good and evil spirits, or Angels and daemons, in which man is left at the mercy of superior forces and over which he is helpless; such cosmologies bear little relation to the true Gospel vision of the struggle to overcome the Devil, which requires moral commitment, a fundamental option for the Gospel, humility and prayer;
- when the daily events of life, which have nothing or little to do with our progressive maturing on the journey towards Christ are read schematically or simplistically, indeed childishly, so as to ascribe all setbacks to the Devil and all success to the Guardian Angels. The practice of assigning names to the Holy Angels should be discouraged, except in the cases of Gabriel, Raphael and Michael whose names are contained in Holy Scripture."
Those clerics who deal in such matters use approved English translations of De Exorcismis et Supplicationibus Quibusdam, (editio typica, Vatican, Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, 2004). Such books and prayers are used to perform exorcisms only under the specific authorization of the Bishop.
A list of frequently asked questions on exorcism and its use in the Church's liturgical life was developed by the Secretariat of Divine Worship and can be found at - www.usccb.org/... .