According to today’s Times the Vatican’s chief exorcist believes that the Devil is abroad in the Vatican.
Father Gabriele Amorth, 85, who has been the Vatican's chief exorcist for 25 years and says he has dealt with 70,000 cases of demonic possession, said that the consequences of satanic infiltration included power struggles at the Vatican as well as "cardinals who do not believe in Jesus, and bishops who are linked to the Demon".
Father Amorth, who has just published Memoirs of an Exorcist, a series of interviews with the Vatican journalist Marco Tosatti, said that the attempt on the life of Pope John Paul II in 1981 had been the work of the Devil, as had an incident last Christmas when a mentally disturbed woman threw herself at Pope Benedict XVI at the start of Midnight Mass, pulling him to the ground.
Father Amorth was ordained in 1954 and became an official exorcist in 1986. In the past he has suggested that Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin were possessed by the Devil. He was among Vatican officials who warned that J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels made a "false distinction between black and white magic".
He is the also president of honour of the Association of Exorcists.
Association of exorcists? Now that is one AGM I would love to attend. As for Satan ion the Vatican, the actions of so many priests ensured that life was hell for an awful lot of young people...
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Those Catholics are so dramatic! ;-)
Aren't they just. I parted company with said brand of religion 30 years ago myself
Jams,
I think I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with you here.
Satan takes on many guises to lure people away from God.
The guy may not be entirely correct, but the Devil would pull this sort of thing.
Ah SH as I am an a Catholic turned atheist and I know you are religious then our views on this matter are inevitbly different!
Snork... They seem to be possessed of very vivid imaginations at the Vatican.
The artwork's good though.
I am totally with Vatican’s chief exorcist on the subject and am coming to Vatican soon with a choice team of ghostbusters, pilferers and con artists to rid the place of all kinds of evil and silverware.
Well Silver and Gold are far more likely to be posessed than other metals Snoopy!
Annekey, SH .. in both cases true!
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