Of course we all knew that. Way back in my Fairfield U days, I still remember the Jesuit head of the philosophy department saying in a homily that we can know the devil exists because it’s not conceivable that all the evil in the world can just be coming from men. Made sense to me.
Nevertheless, this will elicit peels of laughter from some …
“We should not be naïve,” the Pope continued. The devil is a reality,
and refusing to recognize the struggle between Jesus and the devil is a
way of only “halfway” accepting the salvific role of Jesus Christ. The
Lord came to end “the enslavement the devil has over us,” the Pope said.
He reminded his congregation of Christ’s words from the day’s Gospel:
“Either you are with me or you are against me.”
Here’s a little video from his homily –
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