Pope Francis has doubled down in his insistence that accusations and cries for justice and accountability are fruit of a diabolical spirit, saying Thursday that the only legitimate accusation is against oneself.
Only to the extent that a person is able to say “no” to the devil can he say “yes” to Christ, Pope Francis told pilgrims in his weekly audience on Wednesday.
Pope Francis, during an address on Wednesday that he packed with references to spiritual warfare, urged Christians to combat the devil and all the forces of evil.
Students learning to cast out demons were told to expect Muslims among their future clients at a week-long course on exorcism in Rome this week.
Hundreds of students, mostly Catholic priests, have arrived in Rome to attend an annual Vatican course on exorcism, the ancient practice of casting out demons.
A Catholic priest who has been performing exorcisms for ten years says that demand for exorcists is on the rise as more and more pastors become convinced that the devil is real and needs to be fought.
The “malign power” of Satan is always in our midst, Pope Francis has asserted in a new teaching letter, and “poisons us with the venom of hatred, desolation, envy and vice.”
In reaction to reports that Pope Francis has denied the existence of hell, the Vatican has released a carefully worded statement that does not refute the substance of the claims.
According to recent reports, the number of people in Italy calling on exorcists for assistance to fight demonic activity has tripled, reaching nearly a half million per year. In a recent interview, Sicilian exorcist Father Benigno Palilla told Vatican Radio
Lent is the time when we are called to stand up to Satan and “vanquish” him with God’s help, Pope Francis told pilgrims.
The demand for exorcists “has risen exponentially” in Ireland thanks to a surge in demonic activity, according to exorcist Father Patrick Collins, who has called on the nation’s bishops to train more priests to fight the devil.
Bullying those who are weaker than we are is the fruit of original sin and “the work of the devil,” Pope Francis told the assembly gathered for his morning Mass on Monday.
Just in time for Halloween, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has announced the publication of “Prayers Against the Powers of Darkness,” drawn from the Church’s manual on exorcism.
A middle-school teacher in Florida plans to erect a display that will invite children to “hail Satan” during the upcoming Christmas season.
Bill and Hillary Clinton’s daughter, Chelsea, has been spending a lot of time on Twitter during the last year attempting to expound on all manner of topics to show how engaged she is, but her attempt to compare Confederate statues to the worship of the devil did not fare so well.
Celebrated evangelical leader Franklin Graham has denounced politicians who are exploiting the Charlottesville tragedy to attack President Trump and his administration, saying that such divisions are Satanic.
Stephen Colbert mocked Kellyanne Conway on Thursday’s The Late Show, calling the senior White House adviser “Satan’s trophy wife.”
The head of the Jesuit order, Father Arturo Sosa, has denied the existence of the devil as a real being, suggesting rather that humans invented Satan as a “symbolic” figure to represent evil.
A careful distinction must be made between psychological problems and “true spiritual disturbances,” Pope Francis said Friday, but in the latter case, an exorcist should be called in.
In his reflections for the first Sunday of Lent, Pope Francis said that the devil is the “declared enemy” of Jesus, but that Jesus defeated him in “hand-to-hand combat” in the desert.
A Mexican priest who has performed more than 6,000 exorcisms in his 40-year career says that he does not fear the devil, because the devil is afraid of him.
Despite the rising demand for exorcists in Italy, younger priests are not applying for the job, which they claim to find “too scary” for their level of experience.
Father Gabriele Amorth, the founder the International Association of Exorcists who served as exorcist for the diocese of Rome for 30 years, died Friday at the age of 91.
Pope Francis has declared slain French priest Father Jacques Hamel to be a Christian “martyr,” a qualification that automatically makes the person a saint in the Church’s eyes, while also condemning murder “in God’s name” to be the work of Satan.
In his homily at morning Mass, Pope Francis told the faithful Monday that Satan is out to divide the Church by sowing ambition, jealousy and greed among its members.
TEL AVIV – Saudi Arabia is continuing its campaign to combat rabid anti-Semitism in the Kingdom with more articles being published in the government press slamming Arab and Muslim societies for their blind hatred of Jews and insisting that Arab nations would do well to learn from the success of world Jewry.
A club to worship Satan may be coming to a Utah elementary school, KUTV reports. The Satanic Temple is seeking equal treatment as Good News Clubs, which is a group that teaches Christianity in an after school program. Granite School District may have
TEL AVIV – Now that France has been forced into a war against terrorism, it would do well to take lessons from Israel, a French parliamentarian told Arutz Sheva in the wake of the murder of a priest in Normandy by
In discussing media criticisms of Donald Trump as a “fascist,” Duck Dynasty star, Duck Commander Phil Robertson, told Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon of those outlets, “What they actually are, they’re controlled by “Satan,” or “the evil one.”
TEL AVIV – A cartoon on a Fatah-owned Palestinian TV station recently aired in honor of Ramadan features Jews fighting alongside the devil against Muslims and the prophet Muhammad.
TEL AVIV – The United States is the Middle East’s main enemy, with the “Zionist regime” a close second, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Sunday.
In a heartfelt homily on the first Sunday of Lent, Pope Francis told his hearers to beware of the temptations of Satan, especially to wealth, vanity and pride, and warned them never to “dialogue with the devil.” On the second
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is not buying John Kasich’s line about being the “Prince of Light.”
In his weekly Angelus message Sunday, Pope Francis continued his reflections on the meaning of Christmas, reminding his hearers that on coming into the world Jesus was rejected, and that we too must make a choice whether or not to accept him.
Evidence has been uncovered corroborating the site of one of Jesus’ most powerful and dramatic miracles: the casting out of demons into a herd of swine in the land of the Gadarenes (or Gerasenes).
Tel Aviv – Official Palestinian Authority television PA TV broadcast a girl reciting a poem with the words, “Our enemy, Zion, is Satan with a tail,” Palestinian Media Watch reported.
On September 29, Catholics celebrate the feast of the archangels Michael, Gabriel and Raphael. Saint Michael, whose name in Hebrew means “Who is like God?”, is depicted in the Bible as the commander of the heavenly host and the victor over Satan, who appears as a dragon. He is often shown in sacred art as standing over the devil, sword in hand, with one foot on the devil’s head.
Pope Francis returned to one of his favorite topics Friday morning, telling his hearers that the devil seeks above all to become master of their consciences, so they no longer can tell right from wrong.
The Pope encouraged the children to live with joy in their hearts. “I see you smiling. Keep living like this,” the Pope said. “Help others to experience joy. It’s not easy. In every home there are problems, difficult situations, sickness. But don’t stop dreaming of living with joy.” Departing from his written text for a moment in his meeting with Harlem schoolchildren Friday afternoon, Pope Francis turned to one of his favorite topics, telling the students and their teachers that the devil is a killjoy who tries to spoil our dreams and destroy our happiness.
In an interview Monday for the Spanish daily El Mundo, Father Juan José Gallego, the exorcist for the archdiocese of Barcelona, Spain, said that casting out demons is “a very unpleasant job” and that at first he was “really scared” because of his close contact with Satan.