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Need a Job? Try Exorcism

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Posted on Nov 13, 2010
AP / Marco Ravagli

Cardinal Jorge Medina Estevez of Chile holds the book “Of Exorcisms and Supplications,” the Vatican’s guidelines on exorcism, at the Vatican in 1999.

While jobs may be scarce in most parts of the country, look out for a boom in the exorcism sector. A shortage in the number of clergy who can perform the rite has led the U.S. Catholic Church to hold a training session in the sacred art of purging spirits from the possessed. —JCL

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The two-day training, which ends Saturday in Baltimore, is to outline the scriptural basis of evil, instruct clergy on evaluating whether a person is truly possessed, and review the prayers and rituals that comprise an exorcism. Among the speakers will be Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, archbishop of Galveston-Houston, Texas, and a priest-assistant to New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan.

“Learning the liturgical rite is not difficult,” DiNardo said in a phone interview before the conference, which is open to clergy only. “The problem is the discernment that the exorcist needs before he would ever attempt the rite.”

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By Mutternich, November 15, 2010 at 9:53 am Link to this comment
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Figures. Jobs get scarce in hell, more demons come here.

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By ronjeremy, November 15, 2010 at 2:44 am Link to this comment
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has anyone ever seen an exorcism?  known someone that had one or performed one?  i have not, but there are many things beyond belief in this world. i think the catholic church is creepy, but so are very evil things.  let them have all the training weekends they want.  i personally think people like bush, cheney, clinton, all of them, do not act alone

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By brhorton, November 15, 2010 at 2:18 am Link to this comment

Lets try Exorcising Catholic priests from our community

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By Crowsnest, November 14, 2010 at 2:43 pm Link to this comment
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Berniem! Malleus Malefactorum! I love your sense of humor!
Of course you know the problem the author of MM had. The devil was not supposed to have testicles, so from where did he get his semen to impregnate witches with to create the devil’s brood that was going to conquer the world? He got it in cemeteries but I cannot go into more details here because TD might scrap my posting.
However the practice of exorcism is in the same world as the devil getting his testosterone and semen.
I am still chuckling.

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By berniem, November 14, 2010 at 12:58 pm Link to this comment

I’ll bet right behind that little red book there’s a copy of the Malleus Malefactorum!

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By TheHandyman, November 14, 2010 at 4:22 am Link to this comment

It is bad enough that people get taken in by the ole Big Man in the Sky scam but add this exorcism ritual and what you have is nothing more than a well rehearsed witch doctor scheme to separate the fools from even more of their money. If ever there was something that one could point to as being the ruination of humanity it would have to be religion, the oldest and most venal profession on the planet. Prostitutes at least give you something for your money. Religion, not so much so!

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By Queenie, November 14, 2010 at 12:39 am Link to this comment

Father Guido Sarducci says, “Hey! It’sa job! Don’t knock it. Sombody’s a gotta pay for the Popemobile and the vino. And don’t forget those little wafers. They don’t run cheap. Two bucks, maybe two fifty a dozen. Then there’s the incense and that holy water. These a little things they add up, my friend,”

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By James Harbour, November 13, 2010 at 7:27 pm Link to this comment
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The act of exorcism is an extremely abusive act.  It serves to at once punish a differing individual and to sever them from the community that they are a part of by claiming that evil has taken over them.  Exorcists should be removed from the human species at all costs considering the amount of people they’ve killed over the years.

They have it coming.

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By Big B, November 13, 2010 at 3:11 pm Link to this comment

The catholics have been exorcising childrens pants off for generations.

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By RayLan, November 13, 2010 at 2:22 pm Link to this comment

Maybe they can practice on each other

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