{"id":2309,"date":"2015-04-14T05:58:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T05:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2309"},"modified":"2025-09-28T00:44:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T00:44:27","slug":"pope-francis-effect-more-exorcists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2309","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Pope Francis Effect&#8221; &#8211; more exorcists!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You mean the Pope believes in Satan? Pope Francis certainly mentions the demonic often enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/europe\/italy\/11533635\/Pope-Francis-effect-leads-to-exorcism-boom.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"\">The Argentinian pontiff\u2019s fire-and-brimstone language and frequent references to the Devil have helped propel belief in Beelzebub back into the mainstream of the Catholic Church, where once it was an embarrassment. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"220\" height=\"286\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d1024422970c-250wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11182\" title=\"Satan 1\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A William Blake illustration of Satan from Milton&#8217;s Paradise Lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And here&#8217;s how the Devil appears in Dante&#8217;s Inferno<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"235\" height=\"185\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b7c778bb58970b-250wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11181\" title=\"Satan ninth circle\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I guess artists like to portray the devil without his pants on. Here he is in the &#8220;Examination of Job&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"220\" height=\"184\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d102451c970c-250wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11180\" title=\"Satan and job\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You mean the Pope believes in Satan? Pope Francis certainly mentions the demonic often enough. The Argentinian pontiff\u2019s fire-and-brimstone language and frequent references to the Devil have helped propel belief in Beelzebub back into the mainstream of the Catholic Church, where once it was an embarrassment. A William Blake illustration of Satan from Milton&#8217;s Paradise [&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-2309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309","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=2309"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11183,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309\/revisions\/11183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}