Can the Church Forbid Priests From Dousing for Scientific Research?

In 1942, the Holy Office published a decree forbidding priests and members of religious orders to practice radiastesia. Father Omads: When phenomena under consideration do not seem, however strange they may be, to bear the stamp of a religious or a diabolical origin, the church refrains from intervening in a province, not its own. The Catholic Church based on this decree seems to be taking an approach to dousing that's very open to it. It expressly permits scientific research into the subject, even by priests who were dowsers. And it has no restrictions on the kind of dousing consultations that laity can do.