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sojusucks
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 Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2010 5:30 am Post subject: Need an exorcist? |
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Catholic Church holds conference to train priests on how to perform exorcisms
By Sean Alfano
Daily News Staff Writer
Saturday, November 13th 2010, 11:13 AM
Cardinal Jorge Medina Estevez of Chile, holds the book "De Exorcismis et Supplicationibus Quibusdam."
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Cardinal Jorge Medina Estevez of Chile, holds the book "De Exorcismis et Supplicationibus Quibusdam."
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The Catholic Church is having a devil of a time searching for priests who can perform exorcisms.
In their effort to fight evil, Catholic bishops are holding a conference aimed at training clergy on how to perform the rite.
According to Bishop Thomas Paprocki, only five or six American priests know how to perform exorcisms, and they are finding themselves overwhelmed with requests.
"Actually, each diocese should have its own resource (person). It shouldn't be that this burden should be placed on a priest when his responsibility is for his own diocese," he told the Catholic News Service prior to the two-day conference that ends Saturday in Baltimore.
More than 50 bishops and 66 priests signed up to attend, The Associated Press reported.
"For the longest time, we in the United States may not have been as much attuned to some of the spiritual aspects of evil because we have become so much attached to what would be either physical or psychological explanation for certain phenomena," Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, an archbishop from Texas told the AP. "We may have forgotten that there is a spiritual dimension to people."
While exorcisms were made famous by the Hollywood thriller "The Exorcist," the act of casting out evil spirits is rooted in the Bible.
"The sacrament of penance is much more powerful than an exorcism," Paprocki said. "The work of the devil is much more regular and our response to that should be rather regular. It's not that you need a special exorcism to deal with the devil."
So, Just how do priests diagnose a person possessed by the devil?
Father Jeffrey Grob of Illinois, one of the priests leading training sessions, told Catholic News Service that demonic activity in the soul "didn't get there overnight."
"There's not an instantaneous change in the person," he said.
Scratching, biting or cutting of skin, speaking in a language you don�t understand and "violent reaction to holy water" are just some of the symptoms a priest will look for to determine whether an exorcism is needed, the CNS reported.
"The reality is that a full exorcism is a rare thing," Paprocki said, "but we still have to have people who know how to do that because the reality is that it's not unheard of."
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recessiontime
Joined: 21 Jun 2010
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| Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2010 6:14 am Post subject: |
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"The reality is that a full exorcism is a rare thing,"
maybe it's rare because it's not real |
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Italy37612
Joined: 25 Jan 2010
Location: Somewhere
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| Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2010 11:00 pm Post subject: |
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| What are you talking about recessiontime. Demon possession of an individual is real and nothing to be joked about. *Flies away on his unicorn* WEEEEE |
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gypsymaria
Joined: 08 Jun 2010
Location: Anyang-si, Gyeonggi-do
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| Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 2:07 am Post subject: |
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It's not just a Catholic thing. My friend who did the JET program in Japan had to have her house exorcised by a shinto priest because it was haunted.
She didn't have anymore ghost problems after that, though! 
That article gave me some lulz. Thanks for sharing! |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 8:58 am Post subject: |
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| recessiontime wrote: |
"The reality is that a full exorcism is a rare thing,"
maybe it's rare because it's not real |
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| Scratching, biting or cutting of skin, speaking in a language you don�t understand and "violent reaction to holy water" are just some of the symptoms a priest will look for to determine whether an exorcism is needed |
The symptoms themselves are probably real, but rare, phenomenons. I'm more skeptical about the diagnosis and treatment. |
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