Italian Exorcist: Satanists Have Infiltrated Vatican

The bizarre flights of persecutory fantasy for which the religious are noted have taken a new twist. A famed Italian exorcist claims that there are Satanic sects in the Vatican, including members of the College of Cardinals.

Father Gabriele Amorth is the lead Exorcist of the Diocese of Rome. He has been a priest for 60 years. He is declared the “most famous Catholic exorcist in the world”, having performed over 70,000 exorcisms. In his own words, from a 2003 interview:

Of course [I was afraid of Satan], but I also knew that Jesus had beaten Satan and the Virgin had crushed him. So I put myself under the protection of both Jesus and Mary. ‘Wrap me in your cloak,’ I said to the Virgin, ‘and I will always feel safe.’ And in fact, over the years I have performed over 70,000 exorcisms and nothing has ever happened to me.

Note: Amorth began performing exorcisms in 1986. In 17 years (1986 – 2003), he claims, he performed 70,000 exorcisms. That’d be 11.3 exorcisms per day, every day, for 17 years. The energy this man must have! -Jenny

And yes, Amorth has daily chats with Satan himself. From 2000:

I speak with the Devil every day. I talk to him in Latin. He answers in Italian. I have been wrestling with him, day in day out, for 14 years.

Now, the man who has performed 70,000 exorcisms also informs that interviewer that it’s difficult to determine who is possessed:

It is not easy. There are many grades of possession. The Devil does not like to be seen, so there are people who are possessed who manage to conceal it. There are other cases where the person possessed is in acute physical pain, such agony that they cannot move.

It is essential not to confuse demonic possession with ordinary illness. The symptoms of possession often include violent headaches and stomach cramps, but you must always go to the doctor before you go to the exorcist. I have people come to me who are not possessed at all. They are suffering from epilepsy or schizophrenia or other mental problems. Of the thousands of patients I have seen, only a hundred or so have been truly possessed.

So, 70,000 exorcisms (50,000 at the time of the 2000 interview), of which only a hundred or so were “truly possessed”? How did he know the difference?

We can sort out the phoney ones. We look into their eyes. As part of the exorcism, at specific times during the prayers, holding two fingers on the patient’s eyes we raise the eyelids. Almost always, in cases of evil presence, the eyes look completely white. Even with the help of both hands, we can barely discern whether the pupils are towards the top or the bottom of the eye. If the pupils are looking up, the demons in possession are scorpions. If looking down, they are serpents.

Readers, you may be shocked that this brave and clearly eminently rational man went toe-to-toe with an imaginary bogeyman 70,000 (or maybe 100) times, and never once was harmed. You may be disturbed that he speaks to a figment of his imagination, and more so that it answers. However, his more recent statements will truly horrify you.

In a new book of Amorth’s memoirs released last month (presently only in Italian), Marco Tosatti — biographer of Pope John Paul — has released Amorth’s accusations of Satanic sects within the Vatican. Said Amorth,

Yes, also in the Vatican there are members of Satanic sects. There are priests, monsignors and also cardinals!

More explicitly, a segment of the interview:

- There are Satanists in the Vatican?

“Yes, even in the Vatican there are members of satanic cults.”

- Who is involved? Is it simple priests or laity?

“There are priests, bishops and even cardinals.”

- Forgive me, Father Gabriel, but how do you know?

“I know people who have been observing it, because they had the opportunity to observe it directly. And this is something that has been ‘confessed’ several times by the devil Even under obedience in the exorcisms.

- The Pope is informed of this?

“Of course, he was informed, but he does what he can. It is something terrifying. Keep in mind also that Benedict XVI is a German pope, he comes from a nation resolutely closed to these things. In Germany, in fact, there are almost no exorcists, and yet the Pope believes [in them]: I had the opportunity to speak with him three times before, when He was prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. He believes, and how! And he spoke explicitly in public several times [about this]. He welcomed our association of exorcists (in October 2005, BEM); [at the time] he also delivered a fine speech, encouraging us and praising our apostolate. And let us not forget that the devil and exorcism, John Paul II also spoke a lot about it. ”

- While it’s true what Paul VI said that the smoke of Satan entered the Church?

“It’s true, unfortunately, because in the Church as there are followers of satanic cults. The details of the” smoke of Satan “, Paul VI spoke June 29, 1972. Then, as this sentence created a huge scandal, November 15, 1972, he devoted an entire speech to the devil, on Wednesday, with some very strong words. Of course, it broke the ice, lifting a veil of silence and censorship that has lasted too long but it had no practical consequences. It took someone like me– who was a nobody– to spread the alarm in order to get results.

He knows because people have observed it directly. Yet the defense?

Fr. Jose Antonio Fortea Cucurull, a Spanish priest and theologian who specializes in demonology and is now studying for his doctorate of theology in Rome, responded to Fr. Amorth’s assertions on March 1.

After reading reports of Fr. Amorth’s accusations pointing a finger at members of the clergy, including cardinals, Fr. Fortea declared that it is a “duty of justice” to speak out in their defense.

The Spanish priest then explained the sources of information used by Fr. Amorth to say that Satanic sects are operating in the Vatican.

In addition to the people that seek help for demonic possession, said Fr. Fortea, “innumerable persons come to us who claim to have visions, revelations and messages from Our Lord.” Among these, “a certain number offer apocalyptic messages and revelations about the infiltration of Satanism and the Masons within the dome of the Church.”

Is that what Amorth said? “I know people who have been observing it, because they had the opportunity to observe it directly. ” Is “observing directly” the same as “receiving a vision”?

The other source Fr. Amorth refers to, according to Fr. Fortea, is the demons who are being exorcised. Of this, the Spanish priest wrote that knowing whether or not the demon is telling the truth “is in many cases impossible.”

“Father Amorth does not have other sources of knowledge than the two that I just cited,” indicated the Spanish exorcist, “I refer to his own words for this affirmation.”

I can read his words. He says that the information comes in part from people who have directly observed, not from “visions from Our Lord”.

What do you think? Is this a vast cover-up? Are there Satanic sects in the Vatican?

Could it be an error in translation, and Amorth meant that there is “Sodomite Sex” in the Vatican?

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Mike Daniels is co-editor of Secular News Daily.

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