{"id":6558,"date":"2005-02-17T13:35:31","date_gmt":"2005-02-17T18:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2005\/02\/17\/that-catholic-church-still-catholic\/"},"modified":"2005-02-17T13:35:31","modified_gmt":"2005-02-17T18:35:31","slug":"that-catholic-church-still-catholic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2005\/02\/that-catholic-church-still-catholic\/","title":{"rendered":"That Catholic Church still Catholic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bi\">VATICAN CITY &#8212; The Vatican university is offering a course for Roman Catholic priests wishing to brush up their exorcism skills, the BBC reported Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The history of Satanism and its biblical context, psychology and the law will be part of the course at the prestigious Athenaeum Pontificium Regina Apostolorum.<\/p>\n<p>There will also be seminars on the spiritual, liturgical and pastoral work involved in being a caster-out of demons.<\/p>\n<p>Milan&#8217;s official exorcist for more than 20 years, Father Giulio Savoldi, told the BBC each case of possession is different and therefore requires extensive background training.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Those studying to become exorcists should also study psychology and know how to distinguish between a mental illness and a possession,&quot; he said. &quot;And &#8212; finally &#8212; they need to be very patient.&quot; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpherald.com\/storyview.php?StoryID=20050217-123025-8759r\">Source<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">Over the last couple of weeks I have seen this story reported over and over in different outlets. Why exactly though is this a story. This comes under what <a href=\"http:\/\/markshea.blogspot.com\/\">Mark Shea<\/a> would call a &quot;Water is wet&quot; or possibly &quot;Dog bites dog&quot; story. This is more of a implied &quot;isn&#8217;t that quaint&quot; story as if the Catholic Church still believing what it has always believed is news.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">Speaking of Mark Shea does anybody have a suggestion of a saint who is the patron of rapid manuscript writing to ask intercession for?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VATICAN CITY &#8212; The Vatican university is offering a course for Roman Catholic priests wishing to brush up their exorcism skills, the BBC reported Thursday. The history of Satanism and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}