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Father François-Marie Dermine, promoter of an annual international course on exorcism in Rome, discusses his recent popular work about the devil, offering keys to discernment on this controversial and sensitive topic.
“A life absent of faith ... is already fertile ground for an extraordinary action of the devil.”
Jacques Collin de Plancy was an atheist who wrote a peculiar book about demons — but in 1830, he became Catholic, convinced by the reality of evil and the need to counter it.
“What have you to do with us, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the appointed time?” (Matthew 8:29)
Pope Francis quoted St. Augustine of Hippo, who wrote in The City of God that “the Church progresses on her pilgrimage amidst this world's persecutions and God's consolations.”
Satan’s grip on the world is insinuated into every nook and corner.
An interview with a London priest who battles the devil.
A former victim of a syncretistic religious ceremony in Brazil warns, “The Church must be very clear about the occult influences that form the basis of many of these native practices.”
“The devil hates everything beautiful and the bells are specifically used to draw attention to the divine worship of God.”
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