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Any priests try to do this to the president yet? By the way... Why do
Catholics keep altering their beliefs? The Bible hasn't changed any...
Jamie
> From Associated Press (via ABC)
>
> WIRE:Jan. 26, 1:27 p.m. ET
> Vatican updates rules for exorcisms, urging caution
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> AP News Service
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> VATICAN CITY (AP) _ The Vatican issued new guidelines Tuesday for driving
> out devils, urging exorcists not to mistake psychiatric illness for
> diabolic possession _ but also stressing the power of evil.
>
> The new exorcism rite, in Latin and contained in a red, leather-bound,
> 84-page book, also reflects Pope John Paul II's efforts to convince the
> skeptical that the devil is very much in the world.
>
> ``The existence of the devil isn't an opinion, something to take or leave
> as you wish,'' said Cardinal Jorge Medina Estevez, a Vatican official who
> presented the revisions. ``Anyone who says he doesn't exist wouldn't have
> the fullness of the Catholic faith.''
>
> John Paul has denounced the devil in a series of recent homilies as a
> ``cosmic liar and murderer.''
>
> In today's world, the cardinal said, the devil's force comes through
> widespread acceptance of ``lies and deceit ... the idolatry of money ...
> the idolatry of sex.''
>
> The new guidelines are the first revision to the exorcism rite since
> 1614.
> They did not drastically change the words or the gestures used by
> exorcists, but they do provide optional texts for priests to use.
>
> The novelty appears largely in the cautions offered to exorcists to take
> psychiatric medicine into account.
>
> Exorcists must ``not think possessed by a demon someone who is suffering
> from some illness, above all psychic,'' or who is ``the victim of one's
> own imagination,'' the guidelines advise.
>
> Among the widely accepted signs of possession by the devil are speaking
> in
> unknown tongues and demonstrating physical force beyond one's natural
> capacity.
>
> The rite itself remains essentially the same. It involves making the sign
> of the cross, laying on hands, sprinkling holy water and ordering the
> devil to leave the possessed person.
>
> John Paul himself once performed an exorcism during his papacy, according
> to the memoirs of Cardinal Jacques Martin, the former prefect of the
> pontifical household.
>
> Quoting the late cardinal's book, ``My Six Popes,'' the Italian news
> agency ANSA said John Paul carried out the rite in 1982, driving out the
> devil from a woman who was brought to him writhing on the ground.
>
> The new guidelines will eventually be translated into modern languages.
>
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