Catholic bishops: More exorcists needed

[jmowreader]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101113/ap_on_re/us_rel_catholic_bishops_exorcism

It seems that a two-day conference on how to do this is currently ongoing.

Also, this:

http://www.catholicdoors.com/prayers/english/p01975b.htm

is the current Rite of Exorcism used in the One True Church.

[Liberty Belle]

1. Can they exorcise the demons in the TEA Party and the GOP first?

There seem to be an awful lot of evil forces there.

[DailyGrind51]

6. They need to begin with the pedophiles in their ranks and the bishops who shielded them from justice

[jtuck004]

2. Wonder what it pays...maybe this could replace a few factory jobs? n/t

[jmowreader]

3. I don't think it's worth it, jtuck

The first qualification is to be a Catholic priest. Hence...no women, no married men, no men who might want to be married...(as an aside, they could probably solve about 80 percent of the pedophilia problem in that church by telling the priests, "get married.")

[jtuck004]

4. Don't know, I think married pedophiles are still pedophiles. But that whole

requirement to be a priest does seem a bit onerous.

[Sherman A1]

5. Yes, to rid us of Catholic Bishops!

[GrpCaptMandrake]

7. It appears this thread had to be exorcised

over to the Religion Ghetto where, hopefully, no one will see it.

Pity, that.

[struggle4progress]

8. ... The purpose is not necessarily to revive the practice, the organizers say, but to help Catholic

clergy members learn how to distinguish who really needs an exorcism from who really needs a psychiatrist, or perhaps some pastoral care. “Not everyone who thinks they need an exorcism actually does need one,” said Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki of Springfield, Ill., who organized the conference ...
For Catholics, Interest in Exorcism Is Revived
By LAURIE GOODSTEIN
Published: November 12, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/13/us/13exorcism.html?_r=1

... Thomas is pastor of Sacred Heart Church in Saratoga, Calif., and the official exorcist for the Diocese of San Jose. According to Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Ill., who is helping to organize the Baltimore conference, Thomas is one of only five or six active exorcists in the U.S. Last year, Thomas wrote to 121 Catholic bishops and 41 seminary rectors, urging them to train more priests in exorcism ... So, why haven't more bishops appointed exorcists? "Because they do not believe in them," Thomas answered ...
American exorcist plies his lonely trade
DANIEL BURKE • Religion News Services
Posted: Saturday, November 13, 2010 12:00 am
http://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/faith-and-values/article_24031ead-9f29-5cfe-aac6-092e1e44b8ce.html

[HuckleB]

9. Who, specifically, would need an exorcism?

:shrug:

[struggle4progress]

10. How would I know? Demonology is not a subject much to my taste, and I am usually inclined

to regard the language as metaphorical: as far as I can tell, this is also the position of much of the US Catholic population, and I expect this "conference" will focus largely on how to encourage people to get psychiatric help

[HuckleB]

12. If they are telling anyone to do anything but get psychiatric help, it's time for some lawsuits.

[struggle4progress]

14. Get a grip

[HuckleB]

17. Sorry, to bring the reality of the situation to the thread.

[trotsky]

18. Do you think people can be possessed by demons?

Or some other kind of evil spirit?

[laconicsax]

11. I'm sure there's an answer somewhere in the Health forum. n/t

[HuckleB]

19. It's just below the thread about the new reiki treatment for pancreatic cancer. -eom-

[skepticscott]

16. And this makes it more sane and sensible...how?

The notion that ANYONE needs an exorcism, or ever has, is just so much RCC flapdoodle. If you were intellectually honest, you'd just say that up front, instead of always grasping for your apologetic du jour.

[ZombieHorde]

13. Yet people accuse atheists of using a fundamentalist reading of the Bible.

The RCC is one of the largest religious groups in the world.

[Evoman]

15. Paper from the year 2410:

Page 1 Cover Story: Approval from the Galactic Council to Colonize Betelguese IIa.

Page 2: Leadership Struggle for Galactic Senate: George Bush XXVI Accused of profitting from the Colonial Wars

Page 3: Catholic Priests convene to Martian Colony to discuss exorcism. Senior Psychregulator, Adam Shwartz, the father of Psychoregulation, the brain science largely responsible for curing all forms of psycho-pathology but conservatism, when asked to comment replied, "LOL WHUT!"