Pope setting up "exorcism squads," according to Gabriele Amorth
Here's a news story I missed during the time I took a break from monitoring online developments having to do with Satanism:
Pope's exorcist squads will wage war on Satan by Nick Pisa, Daily Mail (U.K.), 29 December 2007, begins as follows:
The Pope has ordered his bishops to set up exorcism squads to tackle the rise of Satanism.
Vatican chiefs are concerned at what they see as an increased interest in the occult.
They have introduced courses for priests to combat what they call the most extreme form of "Godlessness."
Each bishop is to be told to have in his diocese a number of priests trained to fight demonic possession.
The initiative was revealed by 82-year-old Father Gabriele Amorth, the Vatican "exorcist in chief," to the online Catholic news service Petrus.
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Father Paolo Scarafoni, who lectures on the Vatican's exorcism course, said interest in Satanism and the occult has grown as people lost faith with the church.
I found the above in a post by Frederick Clarkson on Talk To Action.
See also the following posts on my Theistic Satanism blog (listed below in forward chronological order):
Pope's exorcist squads will wage war on Satan by Nick Pisa, Daily Mail (U.K.), 29 December 2007, begins as follows:
The Pope has ordered his bishops to set up exorcism squads to tackle the rise of Satanism.
Vatican chiefs are concerned at what they see as an increased interest in the occult.
They have introduced courses for priests to combat what they call the most extreme form of "Godlessness."
Each bishop is to be told to have in his diocese a number of priests trained to fight demonic possession.
The initiative was revealed by 82-year-old Father Gabriele Amorth, the Vatican "exorcist in chief," to the online Catholic news service Petrus.
...
Father Paolo Scarafoni, who lectures on the Vatican's exorcism course, said interest in Satanism and the occult has grown as people lost faith with the church.
I found the above in a post by Frederick Clarkson on Talk To Action.
See also the following posts on my Theistic Satanism blog (listed below in forward chronological order):
- Full-blown alleged SRA case in Italy - Friday, April 27, 2007
- Some news from Italy, about Satanism and about the Catholic Church - Monday, April 28, 2008
- More about Satanism and the Catholic Church in Italy - Friday, May 2, 2008
- Blaming "Satanists" for Catholic clergy sex scandals??? - Saturday, May 3, 2008
- How they'll clean up after you at a Maltese hospital - Tuesday, May 13, 2008