From The Times (UK)
March 11, 2010
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’ [a phrase coined by Pope Paul VI in 1972] in the holy rooms, it is all true – including these latest stories of violence and paedophilia.”
He claimed that another example of satanic behaviour was the Vatican “cover-up” over the deaths in 1998 of Alois Estermann, the then commander of the Swiss Guard, his wife and Corporal Cedric Tornay, a Swiss Guard, who were all found shot dead. “They covered up everything immediately,” he said. “Here one sees the rot”.
A remarkably swift Vatican investigation concluded that Corporal Tornay had shot the commander and his wife and then turned his gun on himself after being passed over for a medal. However Tornay’s relatives have challenged this. There have been unconfirmed reports of a homosexual background to the tragedy and the involvement of a fourth person who was never identfied.
Father Amorth, who has just published Memoirs of an Exorcist, a series of interviews with the Vatican journalist Marco Tosatti, said that the attempt on the life of Pope John Paul II in 1981 had been the work of the Devil, as had an incident last Christmas when a mentally disturbed woman threw herself at Pope Benedict XVI at the start of Midnight Mass, pulling him to the ground.
Father José Antonio Fortea Cucurull, a Rome-based exorcist, said that Father Amorth had “gone well beyond the evidence” in claiming that Satan had infiltrated the Vatican corridors.
“Cardinals might be better or worse, but all have upright intentions and seek the glory of God,” he said. Some Vatican officials were more pious than others, “but from there to affirm that some cardinals are members of satanic sects is an unacceptable distance.”
Father Amorth told La Repubblica that the devil was “pure spirit, invisible. But he manifests himself with blasphemies and afflictions in the person he possesses. He can remain hidden, or speak in different languages, transform himself or appear to be agreeable. At times he makes fun of me.”
He said it sometimes took six or seven of his assistants to to hold down a possessed person. Those possessed often yelled and screamed and spat out nails or pieces of glass, which he kept in a bag. “Anything can come out of their mouths – finger-length pieces of iron, but also rose petals.”
He said that hoped every diocese would eventually have a resident exorcist. Under Church Canon Law any priest can perform exorcisms, but in practice they are carried out by a chosen few trained in the rites.
Father Amorth was ordained in 1954 and became an official exorcist in 1986. In the past he has suggested that Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin were possessed by the Devil. He was among Vatican officials who warned that J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter novels made a “false distinction between black and white magic”.
He approves, however, of the 1973 film The Exorcist, which although “exaggerated” offered a “substantially exact” picture of possession.
In 2001 he objected to the introduction of a new version of the exorcism rite, complaining that it dropped centuries-old prayers and was “a blunt sword” about which exorcists themselves had not been consulted. The Vatican said later that he and other exorcists could continue to use the old ritual.
He is the president of honour of the Association of Exorcists.
This was what famous exorcist Fr. Malachi Martin has said many years before he died. Listen to this rare audio of Malachi Martin revealing about evil, exorcism and possession. This guy is truly world class.
Thanks for that Catherine. I’ve never believed it anyway. Talk is cheap especially when it comes from people’s sole motivation is to destroy the self belief an individual has in oneself. Paddy.
Paddy you are far from useless, helpless and hopeless.Take care Catherine.
Amoth, indeed, what a joke.
Irish Indo: This morning 13 March:
“Pope Linked to Pedo Case”
Why would Ratzinger be so moved to make a career out of protecting paedophiles.
Is Ratzinger actually a Paedophile himself?
That tune ‘Spring time for Hitler & Germany’ just does not stop ringing in my ears and as it is the first day of thaw here after 3 months of heavy snow this is especially gratifying.
I always knew there was something odd about you Andrew. I’m “useless, helpless and hopeless”. Paddy
The nuns tried to ‘beat the divil’ out of me. Apparently I was the spawn of Satan!
HI PADDY
THE HESHES IN BLACK OLD NICK WAS NOT ONLY IN THE VATICAN NICK HE SHE PAID US ALL A VISIT IN THE STATE/CHURCH RUN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS OF IRELAND AND OLD NICK AND HIS PALS GOT 133 MILLIOM EURO IN 30 YEARS OF WITCH 50% WENT TO ROME.
CHRISTY
HESHE PAID US ALL A VISIT IN THE STATE/CHURCH RUN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS
HI PORTIA
‘NO ONE SPINS LIES LIKE THE VATICAN BOYS.’
I LOVE IT CAN I USE IT FROM TIME TO TIME.
CHRISTY
The only kind of exorcist needed for the Roman Catholic Church is called the Director of Public Prosecutions.
“Exorcism is God’s true miracle,” Amorth likes to say.
And god does not exist, so who is in need of a psychiatrist now?
“An unnecessary exorcism never harmed anyone,” he says, rather controversially. ”
THAT IS A LIE.!!!!
Sorry Paddy, this makes me so angry, having suffered for 50 yrs from an exorcism as a child.
http://www.rickross.com/reference/exorcism/exorcism43.html
The Devil doesn’t like Latin.
Father Amorth has had a hand in recruiting, training, or inspiring many of today’s exorcists.
More bloody brainwashing….never ends, does it.?
70,000 cases of demonic possession.
Jaysus, how much £££ for each?
That’s a lot of money for something that does not exist.
No one can spin lies like the Vatican Boys.!!
They make money out of nothing…..wow.
Then there is the possibility of using re-cyckled priests and christian brothers and nuns as study objects. They would be housed in a secure facility in Letterfrack electronicaly tagged of course. J.K.Rowling could add a further dimension as “Spiritual Advisor” not to mention the upswing for the Irish Film Board as their “Exorcist no2” hits the screens as Gaelige with English sub titles. Jaysus Paddy what have I been smoking?.
My favorite place to stay would be the five furnace “Hotel Lucifer” followed by the four furnace “Hotel Beelzebub” they do a cracking grill.
Amorth is very wellcome to Ireland as the high rate of Satanic behaviour as proved by the Ryan, Murphy and Cloyne Reports should guarentee him years of work. In fact he could with the assistence of the IDA open an “Exorcist Training Facility” here and be given tax deductions if the facility is located in the Gaeltacht. To please everbody there could be a multi lingual rapid deployment unit on standby 24/7 operating across Europe. Men and women in their thousands would apply and a dramatic reduction in unemployment in the Gaeltacht would bolster the local economy. Exorcists will build families and lots of wee exorcists will fill the schools and there would be even “Exocist Festivals” and tourism would flourish and hotels once closed now have their furnaces roaring. “Hotel Furnace” that was a good one Paddy!. Sales of Exorcist memorabilia would soar. ( dvd be your own exorcist 9 euro, as gaelige 12 euro) There is no limit to the market. Knock will cooperate by referring possessed to the facility for a fee of course. I can see it before my very eyes as that once rural place is exposed to an invasion of German, Austrian and now Dutch students eager to become “Exorcist of the Year”. How do you say “Begone Satan” as Gaelige?. Jaysus Paddy we are on to a good thing here, have ya the tel no to the IDA?.
Its just another attempt by a Vatican official to offload the widespread child abuse by catholic priests on anything they can think of.
Seeing that their whole worldview revolves around a fake battle between good and evil it was never going to take long before they start to blame ‘the devil’.
Basically I’ve seen them attempt to blame ‘recovered memory’ evidence, blame the abused kids themselves, blame wider society and now they are reduced to blaming what is very much their own made up demon because they aren’t getting any traction on their other targets.
The key thing about that chappie’s statement is the phrase ‘sometimes he even mocks me’. The old boy is too far gone in his self-justification of his life in a privileged profession based on superstition to realise he is describing his own psychological battle.
Christers have always blamed their own doubts on the work of devil- an external force nothing to do with them. Alcoholics blame alcohol, heroin addicts blame heroin, smokers blame tobacco and priests blame a non-existent entity as the only safe enemy that won’t dispute their allegation.
Sad, psychologically damaged old men in frocks.
I only wish it hadn’t taken so much suffering among innocent kids to show these nutters up for what they are.
Is the pope a Catholic?
The only exorcist needed for the Roman Catholic Church is the Director of Public Procecutions. There should be one in every parish.
And there was I thinking “OLD NICK” was down in the fiery furnaces of hell, belching, cursing and farting sawdust!
Ah well! You learn something new every day. Paddy.