Pope will wage war on Satan!

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Pope's exorcist squads will wage war on Satan
By NICK PISA

Last updated at 00:02am on 29th December 2007

The Pope has ordered his bishops to set up exorcism squads to tackle the rise of Satanism.

Vatican chiefs are concerned at what they see as an increased interest in the occult.

They have 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 82-year-old Father Gabriele Amorth, the Vatican "exorcistinchief," to the online Catholic news service Petrus.

"Thanks be to God, we have a Pope who has decided to fight the Devil head-on," he said.

"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 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.

Father Amorth said that during his time at the department Benedict had not lost the chance to warn humanity of the risk from the Devil.

He 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.

"The prayer is useful not only for priests but also for lay people in helping to fight demons," he said.

Father Paolo Scarafoni, who lectures on the Vatican's exorcism course, said interest in Satanism and the occult has grown as people lost faith with the church.

He added: "People suffer and think that turning to the Devil can help solve their problems. We are being bombarded by requests for exorcisms."

The Vatican is particularly concerned that young people are being exposed to the influence of Satanic sects through rock music and the Internet.

In theory, under the Catholic Church's Canon Law 1172, all priests can perform exorcisms. But in reality only a select few are assigned the task.

Under the law, practitioners must have "piety, knowledge, prudence, and integrity of life."

The rite of exorcism involves a series of gestures and prayers to invoke the power of God and stop the "demon" influencing its victim.

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Satan replies!

"Drop the gloves rookie!"

GoldenJoe · Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 10:34 pm Post subject:

lol. nice one

Jezzica · Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 1:23 am Post subject:

lmfao what a joke
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jaycorath · Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 5:36 am Post subject:

fuckin lunatics!!

I get so fucking tired of hearing about the occult and Satanism. I really can't tell who is stupider in this situation: The morons who are actually into the occult or worse yet, satanism (actually believing in and worshipping satan).... or.... The morons who actually are frightened by the other morons that are into silly, childish, absolutely STUPID things such as satanism.

I really wanna meet someone who honestly and seriously is a satanist. I just can't imagine anyone but an angsty teenager being into that stupid shit.

arghhh.... these fucking morons make me so angry Wink

Anyhow, I take this sort of nonsense out of the catholic church to be purely a scare tactic. Keep up the good work Pope Palpatine, ya jackass Rolling Eyes

Now go back to helping AIDS spread in Africa or protecting an international child molestation ring Twisted Evil

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VinceNoir · Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 6:33 am Post subject:

I want to see Satan actually fighting the Pope. Perhaps in nothing but a thong and covered in mud.
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RyanDzundza · Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 8:54 am Post subject:

lol i hope the catholic church keeps these sort of public messages up because they do more to damage the credibility of the church more than we ever could, i mean who actually believes in demons possesing humans anymore, seriously religion is stuck in the middle ages
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OmegaRED · Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 11:45 am Post subject:

Anyone else notice the extra text on the link?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=504969&in_page_id=1811&Satan=Santa

Very Happy

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Wander · Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 4:56 pm Post subject: Re: Pope will wage war on Satan!

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Satan has strong slapshot. But he's weak to his left. My priests will tie him up along the boards.

Raskolnikov · Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 10:15 pm Post subject:

Dammit! Their on to us! I better inform the Super Devil about this!
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Wander · Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 12:51 pm Post subject:

Think we can distract the Pope long enough to let Satan run him down with a Zamboni?
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Reallycoolman2003 · Intern Joined: 08 Oct 2007 Posts: 63 Local time: 1:32 AM

When shit like this comes out, it just makes me despair...i mean how backward is our society when this makes serious news..and seriously what has satan ever done thats worse than god did?? wheres satans mass genocide?? every time something bad happens its the devils work. ino these are fictional characters but this church n all that is nuts. i watched songs of praise (UK) today and all these people were singing songs about how much they love god and worship him and give their lives to him...n i thought about this papal declaration, the place was absolutely packed with people..all bums on seats, and im pretty certain everyone of em actually believed that if they didnt beg god for his love satan wud bumrape them in hell. its pathetic this world

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