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To: William Brotherson who wrote (37941)	2/9/1999 10:27:00 AM
From: Ronaldo	Respond to of 50264

I guess it worked.........:-) ---------- Vatican's Updated Exorcism Rules Differ Little From Those of 1614 By Sarah Delaney, Special to The Washington Post Wednesday, January 27, 1999; Page A22 VATICAN CITY, Jan. 26—The popular image of a priest sprinkling holy water, holding up a crucifix and ordering the devil to depart from the body of a possessed Christian is an accurate depiction of the modern exorcism rite as inaugurated today by the Vatican -- just as it was in its previous version, written in 1614. And manifestations of the devil, which a senior Vatican prelate called "the Great Liar," are the same that the public knows from movies and television -- the ability to speak in unfamiliar languages, demonstrations of unusual strength and a visceral aversion to God, to the saints and to the cross. The updated exorcism ritual, the first to be issued by the Vatican since the early 17th century, was published in Latin here today in an 84-page leather-bound volume. Although the wording is less colorful, the new text "is in great continuity" with the 1614 version, said Cardinal Jorge Arturo Medina Estevez, head of the Vatican's Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, which worked for 10 years on the revision. "There are no substantive changes," he said. Also unchanged, Estevez said, is the church's warning that the devil is at work. "We know that there are Catholics who have not been properly educated in the faith and doubt the existence of the devil," he said. "But it is not an opinion, something to take or leave as you please. It is part of Catholic faith and doctrine." In today's world, the cardinal said, the devil's influence is seen less in the possession of people than in "the idolatry of money, the idolatry of drug trafficking, the idolatry of sex and power." He said that "the use of the lie is his preferred strategy." Estevez said that a priest who undertakes an exorcism must first have the "moral certainty" that the source of an individual's problems is possession by the devil, not merely mental instability. "Exorcism is designed to chase away demons or liberate someone from the demonic influence. . . . Much different is a case of illness, especially psychological," he said. Examples of real physical possession by the devil are "rather scarce," he said. More common are cases of "obsession," which is "more internal, more in the mind." The new text lists the steps an exorcist must take, preferably in a church in front of a crucifix, to liberate the possessed individual. They are purification by holy water, chanting of prayers, laying on of hands and showing the possessed a cross before asking God to intervene and, finally, ordering the devil to leave the person.