RE: Devil is in the Vatican
March 12, 2010 at 12:23 am
(This post was last modified: March 12, 2010 at 12:23 am by Oldandeasilyconfused.)
Quote:Chief exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth says the Devil himself is behind the child sex scandals that rocked the Catholic Church.
When I was 5 my mother was obliged to have words with the head nun at the convent school I attended,over:
(1)The nightmares I had due to the graphic stories our class teacher told us about the deaths of the martyrs.
(2) My cunning propensity to take on an angelic expressions and exclaim "the Devil made me do it" as a defence of any accusation of wrong doing.
The stories stopped and I was confronted with the reality that blaming the devil just won't wash,so I stopped doing it.----and you say there's an 80 yr old cardinal who still does it? Why doesn't that surprise me?
Funny how the church's attitude to the Devil and demonology changes as convenient. Heaven forbid some clerical douchebag be held accountable for his criminal activities.---OF course there was a time when civil authorities could not prosecute clergy for any offence whatsoever. The Church graciously allowed civil authorities to burn heretics at the stake,once the Church had found them guilty
