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Surge in Satanism sparks call for more exorcists

  • 31-03-2011 9:39pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,307 ✭✭✭


    A SURGE in Satanism, facilitated by the internet, has led to a sharp rise in the demand for exorcists, the Roman Catholic Church has warned.

    Fr Gabriele Amorth, the Vatican's chief exorcist, also claimed that sex abuse scandals involving the Catholic Church were proof that Satan was "waging a war against the Holy See".

    The internet has made it easier than ever to access information on Devil-worshipping and the occult, experts said.

    Exorcism is the subject of a six-day conference being held this week at the Regina Apostolorum Pontifical University in Rome, which is under the Vatican's authority.

    "The internet makes it much easier than in the past to find information about Satanism," said Carlo Climati, a member of the university who specialises in Satanism and young people.

    "In just a few minutes you can contact Satanist groups and research occultism.

    "The conference is not about how to become an exorcist, it's to share information about exorcism, Satanism and sects. There is a particular risk for young people who are in difficulties or who are emotionally fragile," he said.

    The object of the seminars was to scrutinise Satanism with "seriousness and scientific rigour", avoiding a "superficial or sensational approach", he added. The conference in Rome has brought together more than 60 Catholic clergy as well as doctors, psychologists, psychiatrists, and teachers.

    In theory, any priest can perform an exorcism -- a rite involving prayers to drive the Devil out of the person said to be possessed. But Vatican officials said three years ago that parish priests should call in professional exorcists if they suspected a parishioner needed purging of evil.

    An exorcist should be called when "the moral certainty has been reached that the person is possessed", said the Fr Gabriele Nanni, a member of the Vatican's congregation for the causes of saints.

    He said that the indications could include radical and disturbing changes in the person's behaviour and voice, or an ability to garble in foreign languages or nonsensical gibberish.

    Fr Gabriele Amorth said people who are possessed by Satan vomit shards of glass and pieces of iron, scream, dribble and slobber. He added that Pope Benedict XVI believed "wholeheartedly" in the practice of exorcism. ( © Daily Telegraph, London)

    sex abuse scandals involving the Catholic Church were proof that Satan was "waging a war against the Holy See".

    Once again everybody's fault except the Catholic Church's.

    "seriousness and scientific rigour", avoiding a "superficial or sensational approach"

    Well I suppose there's a first time for everything. :D

    garble in foreign languages or nonsensical gibberish.... vomit shards of glass and pieces of iron, scream, dribble and slobber.

    Doesn't this pretty much describe almost the entire body of priests/bishops?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    Read about this in the paper toay. Just what teh hell do they be on?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭strobe


    sex abuse scandals involving the Catholic Church were proof that Satan was "waging a war against the Holy See".[/B]

    I get blamed for everything. :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,021 ✭✭✭Hivemind187


    MUWAHAHAHAHAHHAA >:)

    ... my time is near!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,780 ✭✭✭liamw


    "The internet has made it easier than ever to access information on Devil-worshipping and the occult, experts said."

    Damn, it's true!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    Experts in teh internet or experts in bull**** demons?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,614 ✭✭✭ArtSmart


    wrote:
    He said that the indications could include radical and disturbing changes in the person's behaviour and voice, or an ability to garble in foreign languages or nonsensical gibberish.


    em, going by that criteria i think i know someone's who possessed

    first name Brian...



    I wonder will Benny do a round -up of de boyz

    Seriously though, their possibility for expansion is primarily in the poorer less educated regions, so this type of nonsense will prob go down effectively there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,758 ✭✭✭Stercus Accidit


    ArtSmart wrote: »
    Seriously though, their possibility for expansion is primarily in the poorer less educated regions, so this type of nonsense will prob go down effectively there.

    That puts a pretty depressing slant on these things, we can laugh them off here in the first world, but somewhere, somebody is going to suffer because of this and the other garbage these clowns spout. Its easy to forget.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 913 ✭✭✭heliguyheliguy


    That puts a pretty depressing slant on these things, we can laugh them off here in the first world, but somewhere, somebody is going to suffer because of this and the other garbage these clowns spout. Its easy to forget.


    And that suffering will be funded by the 1st world (your neighbors)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,517 ✭✭✭axer


    He said that the indications could include radical and disturbing changes in the person's behaviour and voice, or an ability to garble in foreign languages or nonsensical gibberish.
    So call in an exercism specialist rather than sending the person to a doctor to see if they are suffering epileptic fits or some other neurological disorder. What are we in the 16th century?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 25,848 ✭✭✭✭Zombrex


    mental note to self, don't read hilarious thread title while drinking Coke


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,180 ✭✭✭Mena


    A press release like that, and people still buy into this malarky?

    /sigh


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 25,848 ✭✭✭✭Zombrex


    Satanists! I knew it was them! Even when it was the bears, I knew it was them.

    moe_angry.jpg


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,388 ✭✭✭gbee


    The real truth is that Satan IS the HRCC, not that he infiltrated it.

    It was once said that the biggest trick the Devil pulled was making people not believe in him, I say his biggest trick was making the HRCC.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,803 ✭✭✭Mark Hamill


    gbee wrote: »
    The real truth is that Satan IS the HRCC, not that he infiltrated it.

    It was once said that the biggest trick the Devil pulled was making people not believe in him, I say his biggest trick was making the HRCC.

    I thought the biggest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing 2 billion people to worship an effigy of their god nailed to a piece of wood by their ancestors, and declare the act as the best thing to ever happen for them :D.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    gbee wrote: »
    It was once said that the biggest trick the Devil pulled was making people not believe in him, I say his biggest trick was making the HRCC.

    Satan is Keyser Soze? I thought it was Kevin Spacey!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,824 ✭✭✭ShooterSF


    April fools or poe's law? Can't decide and that's whats scary about religion...


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,449 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    garble in foreign languages or nonsensical gibberish.
    I think they're just getting a dig into the evangelicals:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossolalia


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭sensibleken


    garble in foreign languages or nonsensical gibberish.... vomit shards of glass and pieces of iron, scream, dribble and slobber.

    Does this mean all of temple bar are possesed:eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,627 ✭✭✭Lawrence1895


    I guess, you just have to blame someone else or come up with a story that frightens the sh** out of the congregation, and bang...you are able to draw the attention away from your own mistakes :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,798 ✭✭✭goose2005


    A lot of Christians tend to forget that if you don't believe in demonic possession, you can't be a Christian. Jesus himself was an excommunicator. http://www.abu.nb.ca/courses/ntintro/lifej/exorcismjesus.htm#E55


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 136 ✭✭Jimmy444


    Wicknight wrote: »
    mental note to self, don't read hilarious thread title while drinking Coke

    I wouldn't worry about it too much - coke is not mentioned in the list:

    "Fr Gabriele Amorth said people who are possessed by Satan vomit shards of glass and pieces of iron, scream, dribble and slobber. "


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