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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 04/30/2004 : 07:51:56
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ROME — In a small room, well away from the street so that no one hears the screams, Father Gabriele Amorth does battle with Satan. He is a busy man.
As the Vatican's top exorcist, Amorth performs the mysterious, ancient ritual dozens of times a week. A confused world engulfed in tragedy and chaos is turning increasingly to black magic, the occult and fortune-telling, he said, proof that the devil and his handmaidens are having a field day.
"These customs open the door to evil spirits and to demonic possessions," Amorth said. "Exorcism is God's true miracle."
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-exorcist30apr30,1,6118181.story?coll=la-headlines-world
This is from the L.A. Times and reguires registration, something I object to strongly in an otherwise free site. So, I lied like a big dog in every field, including giving a dead E addy that still works, but I can't get into. You might consider giving them an enemy's addy. The phone # I gave is also a phony.
But, it's an interesting article. Indeed, a fair amount, but not all by any means, of the Times is worth the hassle.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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Trish
SFN Addict
USA
2102 Posts |
 Posted - 04/30/2004 : 09:48:26 [Permalink]
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As the Vatican's top exorcist, Amorth performs the mysterious, ancient ritual dozens of times a week. A confused world engulfed in tragedy and chaos is turning increasingly to black magic, the occult and fortune-telling, he said, proof that the devil and his handmaidens are having a field day.
So I see that women are still the evil influence when refering to the occult. Does Amorth ever say exactly how he knows he's removed the evil influence for these 'poor tortured souls'? |
...no one has ever found a 4.5 billion year old stone artifact (at the right geological stratum) with the words "Made by God."
No Sense of Obligation by Matt Young
"Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith. I consider the capacity for it terrifying and vile!"
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
They (Women Marines) don't have a nickname, and they don't need one. They get their basic training in a Marine atmosphere, at a Marine Post. They inherit the traditions of the Marines. They are Marines.
LtGen Thomas Holcomb, USMC
Commandant of the Marine Corps, 1943
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