and the Vatican's announcement in September of this year that ET/aliens almost certainly exist.
Reading today's news alerts, we find this item about the church training would be exorcists here in the U.S.:
"OVERWHELMED WITH REQUESTS FOR EXORCISTS, U.S. Roman Catholic bishops are holding a special training workshop in Baltimore this weekend to teach clerics the esoteric rite, the Catholic News Service reported." The church has signed up 56 bishops and 66 priests for the two-day workshop that began on Friday, seeking to boost the small group of just five or six American exorcists that the church currently has on its The New York Times suggests one reason for the increased need of exorcising priests in the U.S.: Catholic Church Needs Exorcists
"But with numerous Catholic immigrants coming to the United States from nations where exorcisms are taken seriously, the church's handful of exorcists have become overwhelmed."The training stresses the importance of addressing the psychological health of the patient victim possessed individual:
"...the possibly possessed person must be checked out by a psychologist to make sure they are not mentally ill before a bishop will allow an exorcism to proceed". But don't misunderstand, while I am no Christian, not religious, and don't believe in any mainstream religious dogma in any way, what some label, or believe to be "Satan," and "demonic," I believe exists.
The world has gone exceedingly mad these past couple of years, no one can argue it hasn't. The questions of our own fears, confusions and anxieties projected outwards as cause for these signals in our world are expected, eliciting all kinds of metaphysical and esoteric discussions. Or are these fears, confusions, and anxieties "response"s to the evil we encounter every day? Or some of both, most likely. It's not as simplistic and neat a thing to say, as the rational-skeptical-secular-humanist would, that we're disassociating or labeling pathologies as religious manifestations of demons. It's also not so literal that, yes Virginia, there is a Devil. No there isn't. But really, it's a moot point. There is evil, and nastiness, and negative energies, and "entities with malevolent intent," and our own projected fears, all congealing together in a seething mass that we don't know how to control.
The Vatican knows this, and some within the domed infrastructure of seeming altruistic global goodness believe, some don't, but all agree on basic tenets that are innate components of that infrastructure: control, power, and the manipulation of knowledge.
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