Father Amorth (The Vatican’s chief exorcist) made headlines this week by suggesting that those who had “given in to Satan’s temptations” included paedophile priests and even some cardinals and bishops who paid only lip service to the Gospels.
The growing crisis over the clerical sex abuse now engulfing Pope Benedict XVI and the Vatican, he said, was the work of Satan, who had even “infiltrated the Vatican corridors”.
Is the sex abuse crisis really due to the Devil? “Oh yes. All evil is due to the intervention of the Devil, including paedophilia.”
And the Vatican? “Legions of demons have lodged there. The majority of those in the Vatican do good work. But Pope Paul VI talked about the ‘smoke of Satan’ infiltrating the Vatican as long ago as 1972. Satan sets out to damage the leadership of the Church — and of politics, industry and sport, for that matter.”
To read the entire article: On Satan's trail with Don Gabriele, the world's most famous exorcist - (March 13, 2010)
To read the entire article: On Satan's trail with Don Gabriele, the world's most famous exorcist - (March 13, 2010)
My thoughts: The excuse "the devil MADE me do it" is getting old. Why can't people admit their OWN shortcomings? That they must live with the decisions THEY make in life… whether or not those decisions ended up being good or bad?
Then we have those who say "God MADE me do it." Just goes to show you.. Some people can't distinguish whether the words they "hear" are coming from their "devil(s)".. OR from their "god(s)."
Goege Bush is a devil?
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