Rome conducts a spiritual meeting aims to train about 200
Roman Catholic priests from more than 30 countries in how to cast out evil from
people who believe themselves to be in thrall to the Devil.
The abandonment of religion “inevitably leads people to ask
questions about the existence of evil and its origins”, he told Adnkronos, an
Italian news agency.
The decline of religious belief in the West and the growth
of secularism has “opened the window” to black magic, Satanism and belief in
the occult, the organizers of a conference on exorcism have said.
The conference, “Exorcism and Prayers of Liberation”, has
also attracted psychiatrists, sociologists, doctors and criminologists in what
the Church called a “mufti-disciplinary” approach to exorcisms.
Giuseppe Ferrari, from GRIS, a Catholic research group that organized the conference, said there was an ever growing need for priests to be
trained to perform exorcisms because of the increasing number of lay people
tempted to dabble in black magic, paganism and the occult.
“We live in a disenchanted society, a secularized world that
thought it was being emancipated, but where religion is being thrown out, the
window is being opened to superstition and irrationality,” said Mr Ferrari.
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