Need more credible sources on this story. Otherwise it sounds like a bait story fabricated by the left to make fun of the right when they start rah rahing it.
I know Satan is real. I read about him at the White House web site every day.
I don’t understand why this story is getting more attention than any other supposed ghost or demon story.
Donald O’Conner ran up a wall and did a back flip in the movie: “Singing In The Rain.”
I know Satan exists, but not ready to believe this.
One thing...IMO, during the interview, the priest was too light-hearted in his description of what he had witnessed. I would think he’d be serious. I know I would be.
Also, I remember a blurb where someone else described that someone held the child’s hands as he walked up the wall and did a flip.
This brought to my mind a childhood trick that my older brother taught me. I was a tiny six years old at the time, and he was 11. With him pressing against my arms, he instructed me to stiffen up. After quite a bit of practice, I was walking up the wall for a couple of feet. I never learned to flip, though.
There ARE such things as possession. I know of such a case involving a priest I knew. I don’t have the time right now for the details. But, I will tell you that I was totally unaware of his attempt to save one of his parishioners and yet one night I was awakened by a dream with the priest asking me to pray for him. How strange, it should have been ME asking HIM to pray for me.
Eventually, I learned all the facts. There is NO QUESTION that there is such a thing as demonic possession.
The priest suffered greatly but finally, through prayer, fasting, and pleas for more prayers, overcame the devil’s minion (there are many of them) and the woman relieved of possession.
I think these stories make people less inclined to take reality of Satan and evil, and in turn God, less seriously.
One of the striking things about this story is that those concerned did not call a Protestant pastor to conduct the exorcism. I was once called to a house in my parish that was haunted and when I asked the people why they didn’t call their own pastor of the local megachurch they just laughed and said their pastor couldn’t handle stuff like that and they knew they needed to call a Catholic priest.
Father Andrew Trapp–a young priest in my own diocese of Charleston records here his interview with a former Satanist in France.
The poor guy probably felt like he was being interrogated by the CIA by this point, but knowing that I might never have this opportunity again, I asked Nicolas one final question. I told him that I had also heard that those who were very deep in Satanism could actually tell whether a communion host had been consecrated or not. For example, they will not steal communion bread from Protestant communion meals, nor will they steal unblessed communion bread for desecration at these “Black Masses.” It would not work because some of the Satanists would immediately recognize that it was just ordinary bread. They would be able to tell that Jesus Christ was not sacramentally present there.
I asked Nicolas whether this also was true. He again replied that it is, and he told us that he could do this himself before his conversion from Satanism. A chill went down my spine. If someone were to put ten identical communion hosts in front of him, nine unconsecrated and one consecrated, he would have been able to point directly and immediately to the host that had been consecrated. I asked him in amazement, “But how were you able to know?!?” He looked at me and the words he spoke are forever burned in my memory: “Because of the hate,” he said. “Because of the burning hate I would feel toward that host, apart from all the others.”
Read Fr. Andrew’s whole account of his encounter with the Satanist here.
The same truths are revealed in both stories. First of all, that the Satan and demons are real. Secondly, it is the Catholic priest and the Catholic Eucharist which they despise, blaspheme, mock and fear.
Satan knows the right address. He believes in the Real Presence. He knows his only real foe in this world is the Catholic Church.
Amazing how many here join him in that regard.
“The greatest thing the Devil has ever done is to convince people that he doesn’t exist”
Whether or not the left plants fake stories has no bearing on the truth.