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From the ArcaMax Publishing, Religious News Newsletter:
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Vatican sets up exorcism squads
ROME, Vatican City, Dec. 29 The Pope ordered his bishops to set up exorcism squads to tackle the rise of Satanism, concerned at what the Vatican sees as an increased interest in the occult. They introduced courses for priests to combat what they call the most extreme form of “Godlessness.”
Each bishop is to be told to have in his diocese a number of priests trained to fight demonic possession. The initiative was revealed by Father Gabriele Amorth, 82, the Vatican “exorcist-in-chief,” to the online Catholic news service Petrus, the Daily Mail reported Saturday.
“Thanks be to God, we have a Pope who has decided to fight the Devil head-on,” he said. “You have to hunt high and low for a properly trained exorcist. Thankfully, Benedict XVI believes in the existence and danger of evil - going back to the time he was in charge of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.”
The CDF is the oldest Vatican department and was headed by Benedict from 1982, when he was Cardinal Ratzinger, until he became Pope in 2005. Amorth said the Pope wants to restore a prayer seen as protection against evil that was traditionally recited at the end of Catholic Masses. The prayer, to St Michael the Archangel, was dropped in the 1960s by Pope John XXIII.
arcamax.com/news/religiousnews/s-281156-157126
Vatican sets up exorcism squads
ROME, Vatican City, Dec. 29 The Pope ordered his bishops to set up exorcism squads to tackle the rise of Satanism, concerned at what the Vatican sees as an increased interest in the occult. They introduced courses for priests to combat what they call the most extreme form of “Godlessness.”
Each bishop is to be told to have in his diocese a number of priests trained to fight demonic possession. The initiative was revealed by Father Gabriele Amorth, 82, the Vatican “exorcist-in-chief,” to the online Catholic news service Petrus, the Daily Mail reported Saturday.
“Thanks be to God, we have a Pope who has decided to fight the Devil head-on,” he said. “You have to hunt high and low for a properly trained exorcist. Thankfully, Benedict XVI believes in the existence and danger of evil - going back to the time he was in charge of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.”
The CDF is the oldest Vatican department and was headed by Benedict from 1982, when he was Cardinal Ratzinger, until he became Pope in 2005. Amorth said the Pope wants to restore a prayer seen as protection against evil that was traditionally recited at the end of Catholic Masses. The prayer, to St Michael the Archangel, was dropped in the 1960s by Pope John XXIII.