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These kinds of movies and bad video games plays right into the hands of Satan the devil
who is seeking to destroy the human race.
The delicate balance of their God-given brain and
mind is affected and too often leads to disrespect of
family and neighbor, and often violence.
It has come to be so bad we learn from the News
Media some young people sometimes murder their
own parents, brothers, and sisters, or have others
to do it for them.
Demonic Possession on the Rise
The Telegraph wrote on January 5:
“Dioceses across Italy, as well as in countries such as Spain, are increasing the number
of priests schooled in administering the rite of exorcism, fabled to rid people of
possession by the Devil.
The rise in demonic cases is a result of more people dabbling in practices such as black
magic, paganism, Satanic rites and Ouija boards, often exploring the dark arts with the
help of information readily found on the internet, the Church said.
“The increase in the number of priests being
trained to tackle the phenomenon is also an
effort by the Church to sideline unauthorised,
self-proclaimed exorcists, and its tacit
recognition that belief in Satan, once
regarded by Catholic progressives as an
embarrassment, is still very much alive.
The trend comes four decades after the 1973
release of The Exorcist, the American horror
film based on the demonic possession of a 12-year-old girl and attempts to exorcise her
by two priests…
“In Spain, Antonio Maria Rouco Varela, the archbishop of Madrid, chose eight priests to
undergo special training in May to confront what he described as ‘an unprecedented
rise’ in cases of ‘demonic possession’.
The Church in Spain was coming across many cases that ‘go beyond the competence of
psychologists’ and they were occurring with ‘a striking frequency’, the archbishop said.
‘Diabolical possessions are on the increase as a result of people subscribing to
occultism,’ said Fr Francesco Bamonte, the president of the Italy-based International
Association for Exorcists. ‘The few exorcists that we have in the dioceses are often not
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