An increasing call for exorcism

[Thor_MN]

http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/4752822.html

Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times
May 1, 2004

ROME -- In a small room, well away from the street so that no one hears the screams, Father Gabriele Amorth does battle with Satan. He is a busy man.

As the Vatican's top exorcist, Amorth performs the mysterious, ancient ritual dozens of times a week. A confused world engulfed in tragedy and chaos is turning increasingly to black magic, the occult and fortune-telling, he said, proof that the devil and his handmaidens are having a field day


ummmm........ WTF?!?!?! What century is it?


BTW, the first part sounds about right

With little prompting, he whipped out his equipment, sheathed in a weathered leather bag that is always at his side: a silver and wooden crucifix, an aspergillum for sprinkling holy water and a container of baptismal oil. He acted out simple steps from the ritual, wrapping his purple priest's stole around the shoulders of a visitor and making the sign of the cross on her forehead. (All clear, he pronounced.)

[stellanoir]

1. this is a policy soon to be adopted

by the DOJ, WH, and Department of Homeland Security. . .

Yeah. . .what century is this. . .?

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. Does anybody have this guys number?

I've got a big job for him at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

[PartyPooper]

3. He would be very busy, indeed.

There's Blair House, too. Not to mention other prominent residences in and around DC.

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