H E R E<\/a>. Amateur that I am, I was agreeing with much of his statements \u2026 till he got to the part about Harry Potter (below). Still, it\u2019s a worthy read.<\/em><\/p>\nAre you saying that most of the bishops of the Catholic Church are in a state of mortal sin? <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\nAMORTH:<\/strong> When I was a child, my old parish priest taught me that there were eight Sacraments, the eighth being ignorance. And the eighth sacrament saves more people than the other seven put together. To commit mortal sin implies grave matter but also full and deliberate consent. This failure by many bishops to help is grave matter. However, the bishops are ignorant of this so there is no full and deliberate consent. <\/p>\nHow does the Devil go about seducing men and women? <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\nAMORTH:<\/strong> His strategy is monotonous. I have told him so and he admits it \u2026 He convinces people that there is no hell, that there is no sin, just one more experience to live. Lust, success and power are the three great passions on which the Devil insists. <\/p>\nHow many cases of demonic possession have you come across? <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\nAMORTH:<\/strong> After the first hundred, I stopped counting them.<\/p>\nAre you ever afraid of the Devil? <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\nAMORTH:<\/strong> Afraid of that beast? He\u2019s the one who should be afraid of me because I work in the name of the Lord of the world. He is only an ape of God. <\/p>\nAMORTH:<\/strong> The smoke of Satan gets in everywhere, everywhere. Perhaps we were kept out of the Papal audience because they were afraid that all those exorcists might have cast out the legions of demons that have installed themselves in the Vatican. <\/p>\nYou\u2019re joking, aren\u2019t you? <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\nAMORTH:<\/strong> It might sound like it but I don\u2019t think it is a joke. I have no doubt whatever that the Devil is tempting the upper levels of the Church, above all, just as he tempts every upper level \u2013 political and industrial.
\u201cBehind Harry Potter hides the signature of the king of the darkness, the devil,\u201d Father Amorth has been quoted as saying. According to Father Amorth, J.K. Rowling\u2019s books make a false distinction between black and white magic. Amorth says that distinction \u201cdoes not exist, because magic is always a turn to the devil.\u201d<\/p>\nAgain, here\u2019s the LINK<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What follows are snippets from a long interview with the chief exorcist of the Roman Catholic Church. You can read the whole thing H E R E. Amateur that I am, I was agreeing with much of his statements \u2026 till he got to the part about Harry Potter (below). Still, it\u2019s a worthy read. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1691,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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<\/a>What follows are snippets from a long interview with the chief exorcist of the Roman Catholic Church. You can read the whole thing H E R E<\/a>. Amateur that I am, I was agreeing with much of his statements \u2026 till he got to the part about Harry Potter (below). Still, it\u2019s a worthy read.<\/em><\/p>\n