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Don Gabriele Amorth recounts his mentor's advice on how to talk to the Devil. In 2012, the cause of beatification and canonization for Fr. Candido Amantini, a Passionist priest who served as the exorcist for the diocese of Rome for 36 years at the Scala Santa, was taken up in Rome. His most famous disciple (who is considered to be his successor) is 87 year old Don Gabriele Amorth, who wanted to participate in the opening ceremony of the process. The Pauline priest, who recently published the book, The Last Exorcist, wished to remember the Passionist Father and told us about the time when...

Four canonizations on Sunday  in Rome. Biographies of the Blesseds: Blessed George Preca from Malta, founder of the Society of Christian Doctrine, a lay group dedicated to catechesis and evangelization: The main priority of the Society is catechetical work in the parishes. Every evening all the Society's Centres are open for the catechetical formation of children and youths and occasionally adults as well. All Members are expected to participate in this activity after their normal day's work. After their catechetical classes, the Members participate in a daily one-hour session for their own on going formation in Church doctrine and related...

LONDON (CNS) -- The British royal family could soon have its first saint after the Catholic Church took a step forward in the canonization process of a priest related to Princes William and Harry. An inquiry into the possible sainthood of Father Ignatius Spencer was sent to the Congregation for Saints' Causes March 1 after an exhaustive 12-year investigation by British Catholic officials. A tribunal in the Archdiocese of Liverpool, England, concluded Feb. 26 that there was nothing in either the work or 22 volumes of writings by Father Spencer to suggested he did not live a life of heroic...

Pete Vere, JCL  Other Articles by Pete Vere, JCLPrinter Friendly Version   A Saint for the Church Militant February 26, 2007 It was the perfect setting in which to read a biography of St. Gabriel Possenti. I was sitting in what could only be described as a tree-house. The platform stood eleven feet off the ground, outside of cell-phone range, and surrounded by a forest of poplar, maple and pine. A twelve-gauge shotgun rested to my left, and on the bucket to my right lay some spare ammunition and a rosary.Virtues of ChivalryI was hunting for bear and rabbit....

Catholics This Week Commemorate St. Gabriel Possenti By John M. Snyder On February 27, Catholic and other religionists commemorate the Feast Day of St. Gabriel Possenti, an Italian seminarian who died 145 years ago on this date in Isola del Gran Sasso. Today, Isola is about a two or three hour automobile drive east of Rome. In 1860, Possenti rescued villagers in Isola from a terrorizing gang of renegade soldiers with a striking one-shot demonstration of handgun marksmanship. The renegades had separated from the main body of Garibaldi's army following the battle of Pesaro. The 20 or so renegades ransacked...

Dublin will get a new saint in June when Pope Benedict XVI canonizes a Dutch priest who became a much-loved figure in the Irish capital, the city's archdiocese said Friday. Blessed Charles of Mount Argus, who was born John Andrew Houben in Mustergleeen, the Netherlands, in 1821, joined the Passionist order aged 19. He was the fourth of eleven children born to Peter and Johanna Houben. Dublin's Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, who warmly welcomed the news, said Blessed Charles was a much loved figure in the city and around Ireland for his devotion to the sick and healing. He joined the...