According to plans being considered, each bishop would have a group of priests in his diocese who were specially trained in exorcism and on hand to take action against "extreme Godlessness".
Fr Amorth said: "Thanks be to God that we have a Pope who has decided to fight the Devil head-on.
Ummm...wow.
What's next? Reviving the old saw that being left-handed is the mark of the devil, or perhaps the Pope would like us to once again assume that epilepsy seizures are a sign of possession?
Too many bishops are not taking this seriously and are not delegating their priests in the fight against the Devil. You have to hunt high and low for a proper, trained exorcist."
He went on: "Thankfully Pope Benedict XVI believes in the existence and danger of evil, from the time he was in charge of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith."
Somehow, I don't think that reviving an arcane medieval-era practice is exactly going to bring people flocking back to the Roman Catholic faith - at least not in the relatively highly educated countries of the world such as the United Kingdom or Canada.
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The real threat to the Catholic Church and it's followers is not the devil, but the Nazi values that are resurfacing in the minds of the Church's leaders.
This Nasti Ratzi Pope should be seeing an Excorcist to drive out the Devils from his Hitler Youth past.
Groan. Guess they want to join the Wahhabists in a rush back to the Middle Ages.
What exactly consitutes "training"? One can only surmise the most ridiculous of superstitious nonsense.
Oh goody... a real Witch Hunt! We get to participate in History.... doomed to repeat it (again).
Well, you must keep in mind that the present pope's former position so nicely phrased in the article is actually what we lay people would know as the Inquisition. It never *really* went away, it just rebranded.
So, he's just chomping at the bit to get medieval on someone's ass.
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