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emad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-05 10:15 AM
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First day of school for aspiring Vatican exorcists
First day of school for aspiring Vatican exorcists
Thu Oct 13, 2005 1:58 PM BST


By Philip Pullella

ROME (Reuters) - It was the first day of school, so some students were understandably nervous. But then again, they were not taking just any course, but one run by a Vatican university to teach aspiring demonologists and exorcists.

"There is no doubt that the devil is intervening more in the life of man these days," Father Paolo Scarafoni told the students, most of them priests who want to learn how to tackle the demon if they should ever encounter him.

"Not all of you will become exorcists but it is indispensable that every priest knows how to discern between demonic possession and psychological problems," he said.

The four-month course, called "Exorcism and the Prayer of Liberation," is being offered for the second year by Pontifical Regina Apostolorum University on Rome's outskirts.

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2005-10-13T125717Z_01_SPI346675_RTRIDST_0_OUKOE-UK-POPE-EXORCISM.XML

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donsu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-05 10:38 AM
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1. and they bad mouth Harry Potter???? which is FICTION

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