Democratic Underground Latest Greatest Lobby Journals Search Options Help Login
Google

Chief exorcist Father Amorth says Devil is in the Vatican

Printer-friendly format Printer-friendly format
Printer-friendly format Email this thread to a friend
Printer-friendly format Bookmark this thread
This topic is archived.
Home » Discuss » Archives » General Discussion (1/22-2007 thru 12/14/2010) Donate to DU
 
HeresyLives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-10 01:42 PM
Original message
Chief exorcist Father Amorth says Devil is in the Vatican
March 10, 2010

Chief exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth says Devil is in the Vatican
Richard Owen in Rome

Sex abuse scandals in the Roman Catholic Church are proof that that "the Devil is at work inside the Vatican", according to the Holy See's chief exorcist.

Father Gabriele Amorth, 85, who has been the Vatican's chief exorcist for 25 years and says he has dealt with 70,000 cases of demonic possession, said that the consequences of satanic infiltration included power struggles at the Vatican as well as "cardinals who do not believe in Jesus, and bishops who are linked to the Demon".

He added: "When one speaks of 'the smoke of Satan' in the holy rooms, it is all true – including these latest stories of violence and paedophilia."

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article7056689.ece

What century is this again???
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
Ernesto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-10 01:44 PM
Response to Original message
1. Na.....
This is the work of the Flying Spaghetti Monster!
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
piratefish08 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-10 01:47 PM
Response to Original message
2. Father Gabriele Amorth also warned the masses against the danger of boogie monsters, killer clowns,
Darth Vader and rabid Easter Bunnies.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Last_Stand Donating Member (247 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-10 02:07 PM
Response to Reply #2
13. Careful now...
the zombie apocalypse is real, and it is coming.
:)
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
piratefish08 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-10 02:23 PM
Response to Reply #13
23. Rule #1 - Cardio
I ain't afraid of no stinking zombies!
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
stopbush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-10 01:48 PM
Response to Original message
3. That's the great thing about make believe - it can be whatever you want it to be.
Edited on Wed Mar-10-10 01:49 PM by stopbush
Devils and gods, and in the 21st century no less. Childish, to say the least.

How self-deluded does one need to be to believe you've dealt with 70,000 cases of demonic possession?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
frebrd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-10 01:48 PM
Response to Original message
4. Unbelievable!
:rofl:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
piratefish08 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-10 01:57 PM
Response to Reply #4
9. 25 years as Chief Exorcist. that would be 2800 exorcisms a year........
Edited on Wed Mar-10-10 01:59 PM by piratefish08
7 per day?

Is there THAT much evil in the Vatican???






nevermind. just answered my own question.......................
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
HeresyLives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-10 02:18 PM
Response to Reply #9
19. Well all those hoofprints would make them easy to find
I would think. Dead giveaway and all.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-10 05:52 PM
Response to Reply #9
38. Fr. Amorth mentions "the consequences of satanic infiltration" as though a spreading crabgrass...
Maybe he was exorcising upward of 7++ satanically infiltrated people a day just walking back out the front door :shrug:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
HeresyLives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-10 07:11 PM
Response to Reply #38
40. Or maybe he was committing fraud.
I'd really like to see somebody, the Amazing Randi perhaps, sue him for that.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-10 07:18 PM
Response to Reply #40
41. I've kinda felt the same way for years about Wilton Norman "Wilt" Chamberlain
Buy hey! If you're really busy, I guess, by some accounts, you can really-really get stuff done :kick:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
HeresyLives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-10 07:32 PM
Response to Reply #41
43. I figured anyone ever around a locker room
would recognize that kind of fiction when they heard it. ;)
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
NOLALady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-10 01:52 PM
Response to Original message
5. Holy Mother the Church
of Insanity!
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
PDJane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-10 01:53 PM
Response to Original message
6. Of course, enforced chastity has nothing to do with it....
I think that trying to keep adults from having sexual relations would cause either outright disobedience or various and sundry perversions. Of course, that would mean that God has nothing to do with it.

Honestly.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
GodlessBiker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-10 01:54 PM
Response to Original message
7. The smoke of Satan? The Father has been hitting the bong again.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Echo In Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-10 02:00 PM
Response to Reply #7
10. "The power of pot compels you!"
Edited on Wed Mar-10-10 02:01 PM by Echo In Light
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Quantess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-10 02:04 PM
Response to Reply #10
11. cute
:D
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
GodlessBiker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-10 02:06 PM
Response to Reply #10
12. LOL... Can I get an amen for the sisters ...
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Echo In Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-10 02:13 PM
Response to Reply #12
17. The Father, The Son, and The Holy Smoke






And one of my favorite LPs - -



AKA:



Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
GodlessBiker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-10 02:50 PM
Response to Reply #17
26. The four bongs of the apocalypse.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
eShirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-10 02:10 PM
Response to Reply #10
15. Holy Smoke!
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
mdmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-10 03:33 PM
Response to Reply #10
32. hehehe
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-10 01:56 PM
Response to Original message
8. Well that would certainly explain a lot........
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-10 02:09 PM
Response to Original message
14. Without the Devil to scare the "believers", the Vatican would be out of business.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
muffin1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-10 02:16 PM
Response to Reply #14
18. Yup.
Same with Christianity. As bush so eloquently put it once, "You gotta catapult the propaganda".
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
SpiralHawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-10 02:11 PM
Response to Original message
16. "Vatican darkside occultism is cool." - xCommander AWOL Bush (R - Skull & Boner)
Edited on Wed Mar-10-10 02:33 PM by SpiralHawk
"We republicons can definitely relate to the Kinky Evil Thang the VatiKinksterS have for darkside occultism. Smirk."

- xCommander AWOL Bush (R - Skull & Boner)
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_WxQ_r3_IH0U/S2WkT0i6PuI/AAAAAAAABuE/rIFk3ElvorI/s400/Skull+and+Bones+logo.jpg
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
libodem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-10 03:09 PM
Response to Reply #16
27. Isn't that
"Skull and Bay-ner"?????
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Feron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-10 02:20 PM
Response to Original message
20. Nothing like living in fantasyland full-time.
Why bother with personal responsibility when you can blame a demon, the devil, or anything other than yourself?!
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
RainDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-10 02:21 PM
Response to Original message
21. Vatican offers the Flip Wilson Defense: The Devil Made Me Do It!


honest. not that we're scum-sucking pigs who could give a shit about the poor of the world!
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
HeresyLives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-10 02:22 PM
Response to Original message
22. Gives 'The devil wears prada' a whole new meaning.
:rofl:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-10 02:23 PM
Response to Original message
24. The devil is in the details.... and in the vatican.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Sebastian Doyle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-10 02:23 PM
Response to Original message
25. Makes sense, when you think about it.
If you were Satan, what better way to keep tabs on the enemy than to hide in plain sight, right in their own headquarters? :evilgrin:

(Works for the DLC, doesn't it?)
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Individualist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-10 03:15 PM
Response to Reply #25
31. Excellent point
:thumbsup:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-10 03:10 PM
Response to Original message
28. It's not the devil Angel Gabriele
just a few Dicks.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
upi402 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-10 03:12 PM
Response to Original message
29. the commute must be hell now
no wonder Rush his selling his flat
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
DFW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-10 03:14 PM
Response to Original message
30. I read the title too quickly
I thought at first the devil was "on vacation"

But then, I thought, hold on, here, Cheney is still in the area.......
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-10 06:49 PM
Response to Reply #30
39. lol!
:spray: :thumbsup:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
DirkGently Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-10 03:56 PM
Response to Original message
33. Seems reasonable to me

:)
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
comrade snarky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-10 03:57 PM
Response to Original message
34. I've got an idea of where he could start the search
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
HeresyLives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-10 04:00 PM
Response to Reply #34
35. Yeah, he used to be chief exorcist I believe.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-10 04:51 PM
Response to Original message
36. The devil is running the damn thing.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
SpiralHawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-10 05:41 PM
Response to Reply #36
37. Wasn't there some pErVo whackNOID proFAsEE about RepubliCONvAtiSCAM degenerecy?
Edited on Wed Mar-10-10 05:44 PM by SpiralHawk
A TiMe when THE Latter Day Pharisees would run amuck pLaNeTwiDe with FreaKy fAmilY vAluEs upSIDEdownPERvo claptrap?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Matariki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-10 07:26 PM
Response to Original message
42. Talk about not wanting to take responsibility...
It couldn't POSSIBLY be the ass backward practice of not allowing priests to marry or have sex. No, it must be *Satan* :eyes:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Tailormyst Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-10 07:35 PM
Response to Original message
44. Yeah, and his name is Cardinal Law.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-10 07:40 PM
Response to Original message
45. Did Dick Cheney visit?
That would be a big 'smoke of Satan'.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
TroglodyteScholar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-10 07:42 PM
Response to Original message
46. Please exorcise the whole damned place...
...right down to the ground.

Thank you.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
fascisthunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-10 07:49 PM
Response to Original message
47. lol...
ironic
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
SpiralHawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-10 09:10 PM
Response to Original message
48. Interesting - how many unrecommends this thread has received
Who wants to hide this man's viewpoint?

And why do they fear his views being considered by others?

What are THEY afraid of?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Political Heretic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-10 09:11 PM
Response to Original message
49. Freaky.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
DU AdBot (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view 
this author's profile Click to add 
this author to your buddy list Click to add 
this author to your Ignore list Fri Apr 26th 2024, 06:32 PM
Response to Original message
Advertisements [?]
 Top

Home » Discuss » Archives » General Discussion (1/22-2007 thru 12/14/2010) Donate to DU

Powered by DCForum+ Version 1.1 Copyright 1997-2002 DCScripts.com
Software has been extensively modified by the DU administrators


Important Notices: By participating on this discussion board, visitors agree to abide by the rules outlined on our Rules page. Messages posted on the Democratic Underground Discussion Forums are the opinions of the individuals who post them, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Democratic Underground, LLC.

Home  |  Discussion Forums  |  Journals |  Store  |  Donate

About DU  |  Contact Us  |  Privacy Policy

Got a message for Democratic Underground? Click here to send us a message.

© 2001 - 2011 Democratic Underground, LLC