Spiritual Warfare

PHILIPPINES Father Michelle Joe Zerrudo, one of the less than a dozen exorcists in the Philippines, led on 15 August 2011 a reparation rite outside the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) where the controversial "Kulo" art exhibit was held. Before the rite, he led some 200 lay people in a Tridentine Latin Mass at the Center for International Trade Expositions and Missions in Pasay City. One of the artworks in the exhibit was the blasphemous mixed-media works Poleteismo of Mideo Cruz that incorporate sexual materials into the image of the Lord Jesus Christ. The CCP closed down the main gallery on August 9 after indignations erupted from largely Catholic Filipinos.  

Preternatural beings (angels and demons) have power over nature. That means they can manipulate nature at will. Is it possible that natural disasters are acts of evil spirits (not of God) contrary to what legal views of disaster have it? There is an obvious benefit to the cause of evil when a natural disaster strikes communities. The devastation that these events bring can shake any person's faith. A family whose residence and properties disappear after a tsuanami hit their village can likely tell God: "You're supposed to protect us from danger. But you did not. Why do you do this to us? A natural disaster is an effective tool at torturing people into a shakened, and even crumbling faith.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois, the chairman of the United States Bishops Conference's Committee on Canonical Affairs and Church Governance, organized a two-day conference on exorcism as more than 100 Catholic priests gathered in Baltimore to attend the affair. [ Read report ]