Pope gathers Moderna, Pfizer, Chelsea Clinton, for conference on ‘health’ for the soul

The Vatican’s decision to incorporate this approach is not universally accepted among Catholic clergy. In a letter to bishops issued by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 1989, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger warned against Transcendental Meditation, saying “it can degenerate into a cult of the body and can lead surreptitiously to considering all bodily sensations as spiritual experiences.”