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The spirit of evil was taught as if there was no person of evil. For years before the notion of angelic beings was contested and even taught that they don't exist. Liberal theologians taught that Original Sin didn't exist. No Fall of Man comes with this. Then it follows, and always does follow, that the Divinity of Christ was denied. The Miracles were interpreted as something else that the Gospels said they were. And some theologians and priests were actively trying to make the Church some sort of psychological social club. And believe it or not, a lot of things happened that led Pope Paul the VI say "from some crevasse the smoke of Satan has entered the sanctuary". Meaning the that Satan had entered the Holy of Holies? No, but he surely made inroads against Christianity, and to do this he had to impair the Church.
Read those papers in Catholic Culture about what Fr. Rohr and his highly touted "inner-healings" and the fruit of his work, "many conversions." Only to what were they converted? The only thing not tolerated by Fr. Rohr is foundational Catholic beliefs and the letters of his Bishop.. Read what other priests who attended his seminars. And people will not let go of this denying the Teachings of the Church and defending this man.
Then after you read about that listen to Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen's video on the diabolic. And if you can't discern the vastly different messages of these two, one a saintly man of God and the other a dissenter of the Catholic Church, my prayers for you are made every night and day that your eyes be opened.
In effect of all of this, society has spiraled downward and Modernism, Humanism, atheism, and a million churches, now at a number approaching 30, 000 in this country sprung up in the spiritual vacuum left in the wake of all these direct and indirect attacks from within & from outside of the Roman Catholic Church. We here in the USA are only about 350 million and we consume nearly 50% of the Energy Resources this earth has to offer. And this wildly popular President Obama supports this:
Abortion is the what I call the "Final Solution" to deliver the world of it's woes. Thankfully the number is decreasing but it is evident something is lacking in the USA & in the world. Mexico, home of the Hispanic peoples & Native Americans strong in the Catholic faith fell in 2007 and abortion was made legal in that Great Nation. Mexico, by all accounts impoverished by American standards only recently made abortion legal. Mexico may have it's problems but they are strong in faith.
Every exorcist priest informs the world that the number of possessions, oppressions, obsessions & demonic infestations are increasing. They urge Catholic people not to try to conduct deliverance rites but to pray deliverance prayers for themselves & heads of families for their families & parish priests to pray deliverance prayers for their parishes & Churches. Deliverance prayers can't make up for not following the basic tenets of our Catholic Faith. But they can keep evil that is so prevalent in society today & in the world
But many contest on supposed theological grounds (not what the Church teaches) the whole idea of people praying deliverance prayers. Deliverance prayers are what the Church recommends for demonic oppression, obsession, influence and infestations. While full demonic possession is rare, these other attacks of the devil are not. For example in Italy, home of the Holy See, there are over 300 exorcists. And in no way do I imply that laity is supposed to enter in competition which the Royal Priesthood. The Catholic Church is one big deliverance ministry.
That Satan is there, still tempting and trying to defeat Christ?