{"id":1807,"date":"2017-03-19T05:36:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T05:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1807"},"modified":"2025-09-28T00:45:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T00:45:47","slug":"pope-tells-priests-dont-hesitate-to-call-in-exorcists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1807","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Pope tells priests: don&#8217;t hesitate to call in exorcists&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pope has spoke quite often about Satan and I&#39;ve posted five times about him commenting on the devil &#8211; like here early in his Papacy. <a href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/2013\/05\/excellent-america-mag-links-to-a-short-video-the-devil-in-pope-francis-teaching.html\">Excellent &#8211; America Mag links to a short video: &quot;The Devil in Pope Francis&#39; Teaching&quot;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is from a couple of days ago, as the Pope went to confession and then heard several confessions.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b7c8e197bb970b-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pope confesses\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e201b7c8e197bb970b img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b7c8e197bb970b-200wi\" style=\"width: 160px;\" title=\"Pope confesses\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/pope-tells-priests-call-exorcists-needed-183541401.html\">Pope tells priests to call in exorcists when needed<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" data-reactid=\"15\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">A good confessor has to be very discerning, particularly when he has to deal with &quot;real spiritual disorders,&quot; the 80-year-old pontiff told priests at a Vatican training seminar on the art of hearing believers recount their sins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" data-reactid=\"16\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Disorders could have their roots in all manner of circumstances, including supernatural ones, he suggested.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" data-reactid=\"17\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In such circumstances the confessor &quot;must not hesitate to refer to exorcists&#8230; chosen with great care and prudence.&quot;<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" data-reactid=\"18\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">It is not the first time the pope has talked about exorcising demons from a believer&#39;s person, and he generally refers more frequently than his predecessors to the devil, characterising him as a physical presence in this world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pope has spoke quite often about Satan and I&#39;ve posted five times about him commenting on the devil &#8211; like here early in his Papacy. Excellent &#8211; America Mag links to a short video: &quot;The Devil in Pope Francis&#39; Teaching&quot; This is from a couple of days ago, as the Pope went to confession [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5059,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807\/revisions\/5059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}