Posted on 09/09/2021 4:11:56 AM PDT by RandFan
A Spanish bishop, known for supporting gay conversion therapy and performing exorcisms, has left the Roman Catholic Church after becoming smitten with a writer of Satanic erotic fiction, Silvia Caballol.
“I have fallen in love and want to do things properly,” said the now-ex-bishop, Xavier Novell, according to a report by BBC, which picked up the story from Spanish media outlets after the news of why Novell quit broke last month.
In addition to widespread media attention, the 52-year-old’s decision has also led to much internal criticism within the church. Some of his former colleagues told the Spanish media that they believed Novell to be possessed by demons. The situation is “not a problem of celibacy but rather of infestation,” one said, as reported by the National Post.
Before his scandalous resignation from the church, Novell was considered one of its rising stars, having become Spain’s youngest bishop in 2010 at the age of 41. His August departure reportedly shocked the religious community, although BBC reported that he had met multiple times with Vatican officials — even the Pope himself — ahead of his resignation.
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Satan loves especially destroying the souls of Catholic bishops, priests, religious...pray for the salvation of this cursed former bishop.
This sounds like a novel that can’t find a reputable publisher.
Rejected unless there are several revisions made. Not credible.
“Freepers don’t take it out on the Bishop personally. He has been possessed.”
Umm, aren’t we the side that believes in personal accountability?
Actually, there’s been a lot of speculation about demonic possession in the Spanish press. He has said and done some very odd things of late.
One religious press author who seems to know about these things said that he thought the bishop was not possessed but was in bondage, that is, under a spell.
He’s somewhat hard to understand anyway…very much opposed to the gay agenda and other things that have infiltrated the Church, but on the other hand very left wing and a rabid Catalan nationalist. I guess Satan…or the girlfriend … found it easy to discover a crack through which to slip.
That is quite a trophy for Satan and Silvia Caballol!
I wonder how long that will last before Silvia finds another trophy to pursue?
Well, at least he’s a heterosexual.
Um…what ever happened to being equally yoked with a partner?
Bishop failed Christianity 101 and all of the remedial classes as well.
Would not doubt if he is indeed demonically infested/possessed.
What's that expression? "All theology is local." No, wait, it's all politics is local. But sometimes it must be the same thing.
You can't overestimate the weirdness of Catalunya, where this is taking place--right next to the mountains on the border with France. They don't exactly speak Spanish, but a dialect with a lot in common with French, and drawing on their shared, ancient, Celtic madness. Catalunya and its Communists touched off the Spanish Civil War and the biggest cult of socialist, anti-Catholic mass-murder since, well, Mexico a few decades earlier and France after 1789.
Beautiful, prosperous, educated place with a temperate climate. You can find cultural conservatism and revolutionary Communism and hedonism wrapped up in the same, wacky package.
No he hasn’t.
This is a choice he made....no one forced him into an intimate relationship with a crazy person.
Possessed with a healthy libido and a modicum of common sense apparently.
Good for him.
I can see how that might be a problem.
I saw what you did there!
Regards,
A heterosexual priest?!!!!
Wonders never cease.
It is an occupational hazard for exorcists, especially effective ones. If there’s anyone Satan wants to take out, it’s them. And coming in direct contact with the demonic on a frequent basis is dangerous. Satan found a weakness in this man and exploited it. All that was necessary was for him to give the least consent, and Satan was able to slip in. Pray for him.
1 Peter 5:8-10
New King James Version
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
Be strong in your faith. Satan will pass you by for other more tasty souls.
Sounds like Satanic possession to me.
At least he had the class to resign.
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