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CajunRick
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Posted: Sat Mar 8th, 2008 09:03 pm |
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Vatican City, Mar 6, 2008 / 03:33 pm (CNA).- The head of the Apostolic Penitentiary, Bishop Gianfranco Girotti, said this week that when a person believes he is dealing with a case of diabolical possession, it should be handled by an exorcist instead of a confessor.
During a seminar the bishop said that in cases of visions, “diabolical, mystic and supposedly supernatural phenomenon,” the “confessor should be particularly prudent and experienced.” However, he recommended “the intervention of an exorcist” as these are “complex and delicate cases.”
Demonic phenomena include “possession, obsession and vexation,” and he said in cases of “mysticism, hysteria and other syndromes,” experts should be consulted.
Likewise, Bishop Girotti spoke of the crisis of the sacrament of reconciliation and noted that according to recent statistics, 30% of the faithful in Italy do not see the need for confession and 20% find talking about their sins with others difficult.
The above article is reposted with permission from Catholic News Agency.
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Hidden One
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Posted: Sat Mar 8th, 2008 10:09 pm |
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Only 20% find it difficult to talk abotu their sins? Wow.
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CajunRick
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Posted: Sat Mar 8th, 2008 11:17 pm |
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Hidden One wrote: Only 20% find it difficult to talk abotu their sins? Wow.
I would assume that is a percentage of those who regularly attend mass (the "faithful") which automatically eliminates most Italian Catholics. I think mass attendance there is about 23%.
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David W. Emery
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Posted: Sun Mar 9th, 2008 12:45 am |
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30% of the faithful in Italy do not see the need for confession and 20% find talking about their sins with others difficult.
It’s an easy bet that the 30 percent who see no need for confession would also, on general principles, have a difficult time with actually doing it, so the real figure on difficulty in talking about their sins is 50 percent. That is more in line with reality, don’t you think?
Meanwhile, the difficulty is usually not in talking about sin, but owning up to it and doing something about it, so that they may be loosed from it. What an irony!
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