Exorcist says: too many do not believe in the fight against evil

Don Amorth: "Too many do not believe in the fight against the evil one"

In my opinion, in the Pope's words there is an implicit warning also addressed to the clergy. For three centuries, exorcisms have been almost completely abandoned. And then we have priests and bishops who have never studied them and who even don't believe in them. A separate discourse must be made to theologians and biblical scholars: there are several who do not even believe in the exorcisms of Jesus Christ, saying that it is only a language used by the evangelists to adapt to the mentality of the time. In doing so, the fight against the devil and his very existence are denied. Before the fourth century - when the Latin Church introduced the exorcistate - the power to cast out the devil belonged to all Christians.

D. A power that comes from baptism ...
A. Exorcism is part of the baptismal rite. Once upon a time it was given great importance and in the rite there were several. It was then reduced to just one, which provoked public protests from Paul VI.

D. The Sacrament of Baptism, however, does not dispense from temptations ...
A. The struggles of satan as tempter always take place and towards all men. The devil "has lost his power in the presence of the Holy Spirit" who is in Jesus. This does not mean that he has lost his power in general, because, as Gaudium et Spes says, the devil's activity will last until the end of world…