Satan doesn’t make you play with little boys!
This is exactly what happened.
The activity of Satan is very often cited as a cop-out so as to blame inexcusable activity on an outside force.
Though Satan no doubt delighted in their weakness and evil, I see no reason to deflect blame, and no reason to believe they were possessed or not acting on their free will. We are called to resist temptations presented by Satan — failure to do so is our problem, not Satan’s.
Give glory to God for the good you do, take the blame on yourself for the evil you perpetrate.
SnakeDoc
As a joke I said I could do better than that and he told me about a few people kept coming back the next day because they get home and think of more sins they forgot to confess and in these cases he had to get a written statement from the Bishop that their sins are forgiven and they can stop confessing.
That is the business the Church is in is seeking forgiveness. I think people forget that.
“God personally looks after me, after us, after all mankind. I am not abandoned, adrift in the universe and in a society which leaves me ever more lost and bewildered.”
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Words to remember
from the article we “too insistently beg forgiveness from God and ..
From the original homily. “we too insistently beg forgiveness from God and...
What a difference to correct placement of the quotation marks makes.
Satan doesn't MAKE anyone do anything. Perverts, are perverted because they choose to be in order to fulfill the lusts of THEIR HEARTS.