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.
