NEW YORK – Citing a shortage of priests who can perform the rite, the nation's Roman Catholic bishops are holding a conference on how to conduct exorcisms.
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."
The only explanation I can figure for having been baptised Catholic in the 1960s was that the church did not appear to be completely whacked out insane back then.
The bottom line is that since Catholicism is fundamentally a crazed religion, exorcisms can cause a great deal of harm to people who simply suffer from a mental illness.
It's pretty strange that adults think that human beings can be "possessed" by evil spirits.
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