Exorcist: Raise the alarm

 We read here: "I am aware of more and more events in society that are causing me to alarm.  Most recently this month, the Satanic Temple (TST) announced it is opening another abortion clinic.  This is not its first.  It encourages the women to engage in its Satanic abortion ritual which concludes:  "By my body, my blood; by my will, it is done."  This ritual will certainly yoke these people to Satan. 

In one of our cases of possession (see Exorcist Diary #275), the young woman had had an abortion and Satan taunted her mercilessly.  At one point, the demons texted the Team:  "She would have been a wonderful mother but she killed her own baby." And then, addressing the woman directly, they texted: "Don't forget to sing your lullaby; your dead baby is burning down here with me." As part of their tormenting, the demons made her experience the abortion procedure all over again and then hold her dead baby.  Yes, Satan is a huge proponent of abortion, as the Satanic Temple unwittingly gives witness.

Should not pro-abortionists rethink their position if Satan is supporting them?  Society should be alarmed at the rise of Satanism and its setting up abortion clinics and more.  Who is raising the alarm?

Similarly, witchcraft is becoming mainstream.  Witchtok, a subset of TikTok for witches, boasts of more than 40 billion views.  It is currently fashionable for young people, especially women, to identify as witches and to cast spells.  A 2024 Pew research study found that 30% of Americans have engaged in some form of occult practice in the past year such as astrology, tarot cards or fortune tellers.  

In our exorcism center, we have received a number of requests for help from women who were involved in witchcraft and the occult.  They dabbled in Tarot Cards, crystals, shamans, casting spells and magic rituals.  Most professed to be practicing "white witchcraft" and/or they said it was just for fun.  Others realized they were tapping into a spiritual force, which they knew was not God, but they were reluctant to give up the power and feeling of control.

Whenever these witches come to us for deliverance, there is a dark cloud around them.  The longer they practice, the deeper their darkness and despair.  More than a few long practitioners of Satanism and witchcraft take their own lives.  Satan strongly promotes death and, in particular, suicide.  

Who, in our society, is raising the alarm about the rise of witchcraft and the occult?  Who is speaking out about its true connection with the dark world and its inevitable personal destruction?  Who is raising the alarm?

Satan promotes death in all its manifestations.  I have no doubt the rise in euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide is cheered on by the dark world (see Exorcist Diary #338).  As the Catholic Catechism (#2777) teaches: "Whatever its motives and means, direct euthanasia consists in putting an end to the lives of handicapped, sick, or dying persons. It is morally unacceptable."

And yet, euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, or medical aid in dying are becoming increasingly available.  People are increasingly offered the option of ending their own lives including those with mental health issues, those with non-life-threatening illnesses, and even the young. 

It is always the case that a fully possessed person will be tempted by Satan to commit suicide.  Suicide is always his end-game.  I have never seen it otherwise.  If Satan is such a proponent and advocate of suicide, what should that tell us?  Who in our society is raising the alarm about the rise of euthanasia and suicide?  

What especially surprises me is that few seemed alarmed by these and similar developments.  Only a few years ago a public profession of witchcraft, satanism, or the occult was unheard off and would have been seen as bizarre and a grave evil.  Today, it is mostly accepted by society and even applauded.  How did this happen?  Only a few years ago, it would have been unthinkable to promote suicide and to make it publicly available. What has changed?

I have a theory.  I notice that when people are into evil, witchcraft and satanism for years, bizarre things come out of their mouths.  Some will say, "Satan loves you" or "Satanism promotes human freedom and self-realization" or "Satan doesn't really exist."  Moreover, they will critically reject Christianity and the Church.  These people have begun to think like demons and believe their lies.  I call this "demon brain."  

Our society is becoming increasingly "demon brained."  How can a society remain silent in the face of Satanism, and stand by while its minions promote abortion, euthanasia, suicide, and the occult?  As the faith declines and as people begin to practice witchcraft, satanism, and the occult, Satan's influence over their minds increases.  They will increasingly accept, if not downright promote, the death-dealing agenda of Satan.

The antidote is simple: the Truth.  Jesus the way, the truth, and the life (Jn 14:6).  With the very public rise of the dark world, there is also a perceptible rise in the actions of the Holy Spirit, the intercession of the Mother of God, and the growing vibrancy of the faith among some, especially the young.  Two thousand years ago Jesus definitively triumphed over Satan.  In our time, Jesus triumphs over him again."

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My commentary

Father Jeffrey Steffon, in his book entitled "Satanism: Is It Real?", reminds us that, "Deliverance prayer is one of the oldest traditions of the Catholic Church. In the Our Father we pray, 'Deliver us from evil.' That prayer is a prayer for deliverance. Christians are able to pray for deliverance from evil spirits because Jesus gave them that power. In Luke 10 Jesus commissioned the seventy disciples to spread the kingdom of God. In this action Jesus gave them authority over demonic spirits. The seventy, upon their return to Jesus, exclaimed, 'Even the demons are subject to us in your name!'

Though Jesus gave His followers such power, it is up to individual Christians to use it...Deliverance prayer is not exorcism. There are two forms of exorcism: solemn and private. Solemn exorcism is a liturgical rite and public action of the Catholic Church. Solemn exorcism is performed only by an official delegate of the Bishop. Private exorcism is not a public, liturgical rite. The terms private (or simple) exorcism and deliverance refer to the same action. This style of prayer is used to curb the influence of Satan in the lives of Christians. Whereas in solemn exorcism only the delegate of the Bishop may perform the exorcism, any Christian can say the deliverance prayer.

Deliverance prayer is said in the name of the person of Jesus. Solemn exorcism is prayed in the name of Jesus and the whole Catholic Church. It would seem logical that a priest, by the power of the sacrament of Holy Orders, has a greater commission than the laity to pray the deliverance prayer. This is not always the case, however, because this prayer is a charism. God can give charisms to whomever He chooses..." (pp. 174-175).

The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, responding to certain questionable activities, published a statement which said (in part): "

..the Bishops are requested to watch that, even in cases where a true diabolical possession is excluded, those who lack the proper permission do not supervise or direct the assemblies in which prayers are used to obtain a releasing, in the course of which the devils are disturbed and their identities sought. However, the declaration of these norms by no means should keep the faithful from praying to be delivered from evil, as Jesus taught. Moreover, the Bishops will be able to use any given opportunity to recall what the tradition of the Church teaches about the role played by the sacraments and the intervention of the Blessed Virgin Mary, of the Angels, and of the Saints in the spiritual struggle of Christians against evil spirits."

What are we waiting for then?

Francis: Why didn't you refer Simon Cazal to an exorcist?

Francis just told priests "to not hesitate to call on the services of an exorcist."

A good confessor, he said, has to be very discerning, particularly when he has to deal with "real spiritual disorders." Francis made his remarks at a Vatican training seminar on the art of hearing believers recount their sins.

Francis said that disorders could have their roots in all manner of circumstances, including supernatural ones. In such circumstances the confessor "must not hesitate to refer to exorcists... chosen with great care and prudence."

In the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith's Letter to Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons, Cardinal Ratzinger summarized the biblical teaching on homosexuality and explained why the Church's teaching on this subject follows necessarily from her teaching on the nature and purpose of sexuality:

"The Church, obedient to the Lord who founded her and gave to her the sacramental life, celebrates the divine plan of the loving and life-giving union of men and women in the Sacrament of Marriage. It is only in the marital relationship that the use of the sexual faculty can be morally good. A person engaging in homosexual behavior therefore acts immorally. To choose someone of the same sex for one's sexual activity is to annul the rich symbolism and meaning, not to mention the goals, of the Creator's sexual design. Homosexual activity is not a complementary union, able to transmit life; and so it thwarts the call to a life of that form of self-giving which the Gospel says is the essence of Christian living. This does not mean that homosexual persons are not often generous and giving of themselves; but when they engage in homosexual activity they confirm within themselves a disordered sexual inclination which is essentially self-indulgent. As in every moral disorder, homosexual activity prevents one's own fulfillment and happiness by acting contrary to the creative wisdom of God. The Church, in rejecting erroneous opinions regarding homosexuality, does not limit but rather defends personal freedom and dignity realistically and authentically understood."

Homosexual activity is both self-indulgent and narcissistic. Gianfrancesco Zuanazzi, Professor of Psychology and Psychopathology for the John Paul II Institute for Studies at the Pontifical Lateran University, explains that, "The homosexual condition is difficult, sometimes tragic, and not only because of the obstacles it can still encounter in society and the injustices of which it can be the victim, but also because of its narcissistic quality. This quality is expressed in the continual attempts at 'self-recovery' and in searching for the 'better self' or the 'missing self' in another person. The homosexual approach is really one of identification and possession. According to Miller, it is easier for two homosexuals to regard each other as narcissistic extensions of themselves than to be involved in a mutual exchange. Socarides says without hesitation that in a homosexual relationship each partner plays his role, ignoring the complementarity of a sexual union, as if the act were consummated in "splendid isolation" from the other individual, simply as a stratagem for portraying a one-sided emotional conflict. Every homosexual encounter is primarily concerned with disarming the partner by means of seduction, prayer, power, prestige, effeminacy or masculinity, in order to derive satisfaction then from the loser.

Homosexual, like heterosexual, relationships exhibit forms of uplifting tenderness or mere genital expression, but whatever the approach, it always seems that the subjects use each other to fulfil themselves and, at the same time, to defend themselves from one another in a reciprocal way. Even if at the present time, dominated by the fear of AIDS, a couple's relations are not exceptional, as a rule they are unstable, unfaithful, strewn with jealousy and bitterness, marked by possessive love and demands that will never be satisfied. Very often homosexual relationships do not bind the two parties, but reveal that typical self-isolation which is an expression of complete autoerotism. The absence of complementarity, which stems from the radical difference between masculine and feminine identification, prevents the genuine dynamic of a couple. 'There is always something false", Marcel Eck notes, "and deeply painful in these loves which cannot experience reciprocity'. The problem of being, the title of a work by Jean Cocteau, who wrote from direct experience, is precisely the problem of being together.

Hans Giese rightly stresses that the 'foreground' of the homosexual syndrome comes from 'clinging to the self'. The move towards the other is not completed, while the move towards one's own sex is shorter, less costly, simpler; but, since one fears the risk of failure, to take this step involves a new risk, that of egotism. Bergler also maintains that the dominant note is always emotional detachment from the other and the focusing of interest on mere sexual gratification. Kardiner notes that the majority of these experiences are due to casual encounters and are 'one-night stands', i.e., the essential element is the value the experience has for the imagination and not the lasting human relationship. This easily leads to the desire for arousal for its own sake, to repetition and finally to anonymity, the discovery of the other not being worth the effort. Then the body is truly reduced to something corporeal: Pier Paolo Pasolini's posthumous work Petrolio exemplifies this eventuality as amply as it does monotonously. In short, for the homosexual there is the proximate danger of failing into such anonymous, repetitive and ever more demanding sexual behaviour that it becomes a kind of addiction. But this promiscuity or 'tricking', which is so frequent in the gay world, is sometimes praised by those involved as the best of relationships."  See here.

Francis has met on a number of occasions with homosexual activists who are hell bent on seeing the Church change her teaching with regard to homosexual acts.  One of these, Simon Cazal, a sodomite who lives with another man in a pretend "gay marriage," and who asserts that there is no contradiction in being a Catholic while engaging in homosexual sex, met with Francis and nothing was said about his disorder.  One has to wonder why Francis didn't refer Mr. Cazal to an exorcist.

As if we don't already know.  See here.

One has to wonder if Francis would have referred this individual to an exorcist.

Pope Saint John Paul II's authentic mercy versus the counterfeit mercy of Francis...see here