Cowardly corpulent blogger likes to rip on the Catholic Church, he would not dare do that to Islam
Demon Fighters: The Catholic Church Needs You
Charles Johnson
Religion • Sat Nov 13, 2010 at 3:48 pm PST • Views: 790The Catholic Church is looking for some good men to fight off an invasion of disembodied malevolent entities.
Citing a shortage of priests who can perform the rite, the nation’s Roman Catholic bishops are holding a conference on how to conduct exorcisms.
The two-day training, which ends today in Baltimore, is to outline the scriptural basis of evil, instruct clergy on evaluating whether a person is truly possessed, and review the prayers and rituals that comprise an exorcism. Among the speakers will be Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, archbishop of Galveston-Houston, Texas, and a priest-assistant to New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan.
More than 50 bishops and 60 priests signed up to attend, according to Catholic News Service, which first reported the event. The conference was scheduled for just ahead of the fall meeting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which starts Monday in Baltimore.
Despite strong interest in the training, skepticism about the rite persists within the American church. Organizers of the event are keenly aware of the ridicule that can accompany discussion of the subject. Exorcists in U.S. dioceses keep a very low profile. In 1999, the church updated the Rite of Exorcism, cautioning that “all must be done to avoid the perception that exorcism is magic or superstition.”
Magic? Superstition? You mean there are people who don’t believe that invisible creatures from the Hell Dimension can take possession of human beings, and can only be defeated with the proper incantations? Where are we, in the Dark Ages or something?
I’m guessing Charlie never saw The Exorcist.
He is an anti Catholic bigot.
The last “respectable” prejudice.
I wouldn’t say that. It’s also respectable to be prejudiced against Slavs (particularly Orthodox) and white Southerners.
Let me know the next time some priest or nun blows them self up on a bus killing 30 people.
Ought to send an exorcist over to BVoAF.
Gotta have the music!
What was that about Satan living in your nose and peeing in your ear?
No, I did not possess CJ and make him into a turncoat. It wasn’t me – it was some other demon.
Dude, I’m talking about the koran or hadiths or whatever. Mo said that you hang out in peoples’ noses and ears when they sleep, and you piss all over ‘em. And Mo liked cats.
I wouldn’t fit into anybody’s nose or ears, and I have human staff members to change my litterbox on command. Mo must’ve been dropped on his head too many times somewhere along the line.
He probably doesn’t care to much for Proddies either.
“He probably doesn’t care too much for Proddies either.”
Probably?!?
Gee Chuck, it sounds better than believing that humankind has the ability to alter the climate of the planet based upon computer models that had to be massaged with “settled science” in order to make them work.
So why is Mars warming too? Is it because the Mars Rover is really a Chevy Tahoe we left idling there?
Eh. You’d be hard pressed to find anyone more ignorant about Christian thought than the shrieking chubbo.
Since HE doesn’t believe in either prayer-for-divine-help or magical incantation, he thinks they must be the same thing. Since HE thinks both “faith” and “superstition” (both undefined by him) are baaad, they must be the same thing. So when an educated theologian distinguishes between these things, golly, he can’t understand it.
Hey, Chucky, I don’t believe in either Godzilla or the Easter Bunny. I don’t like either one of them either. But that doesn’t mean that they are the same. Got that?
Hint, Chucky:
But he does believe in the magic tooth consensus.
I look forward to seeing him ridiculing the stoning of devil at the upcoming Haj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia this January. Oh wait..it’s an Islamic ritual…on second thoughts…
The planet needs an exorcist.