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‘Shut Up, Satan’: Rome Course Teaches Exorcism, Even by Cellphone
"a Catholic cardinal with decades of experience casting demons out of possessed bodies gave a master class on how to yell at the devil, rid Muslims of black magic and purge Satan on your cellphone."
"Cardinal Simoni, who is Albanian, also said that fasting sometimes helped the possessed, but that often you had to play hardball with Beelzebub by saying things like “shut up, Satan.”"
“I exorcise you, Satan. O.K., talk soon, say hello to your husband for me.”
"every diocese should have an exorcist on hand, but that the reforms of the Second Vatican Council and its “confusion” had eroded exorcism expertise and deprived seminarians of instruction in demonology.
“That was simply lost,” he said. “A lot of dioceses in the United States haven’t had exorcists for a very long time.”
But in all fairness to Catholicism, this course is unofficial -- it's run by disaffected conservative groups, not by the church proper.
"... conducting exorcisms by cellphone, which is technically banned by church law"
Stands to reason. How can you expect to do an exorcism properly if you aren't even there when the possessed girl's head spins around?
"More recently the Vatican has formally recognized an International Association of Exorcists in 2014, which keeps its 250 or so members updated on the latest best practices in confronting the devil."
"a Catholic cardinal with decades of experience casting demons out of possessed bodies gave a master class on how to yell at the devil, rid Muslims of black magic and purge Satan on your cellphone."
"Cardinal Simoni, who is Albanian, also said that fasting sometimes helped the possessed, but that often you had to play hardball with Beelzebub by saying things like “shut up, Satan.”"
“I exorcise you, Satan. O.K., talk soon, say hello to your husband for me.”
"every diocese should have an exorcist on hand, but that the reforms of the Second Vatican Council and its “confusion” had eroded exorcism expertise and deprived seminarians of instruction in demonology.
“That was simply lost,” he said. “A lot of dioceses in the United States haven’t had exorcists for a very long time.”
But in all fairness to Catholicism, this course is unofficial -- it's run by disaffected conservative groups, not by the church proper.
"... conducting exorcisms by cellphone, which is technically banned by church law"
Stands to reason. How can you expect to do an exorcism properly if you aren't even there when the possessed girl's head spins around?
"More recently the Vatican has formally recognized an International Association of Exorcists in 2014, which keeps its 250 or so members updated on the latest best practices in confronting the devil."