Spiritual Warfare

VATICAN Vatican's official exorcist Fr. Gabrielle Amorth recounted in his recent book the exorcism that Pope Benedict XVI performed on two men, known only as "Giovanni" and "Marco," during a general audience at St. Peter's Square in 2009. Amorth said that two of his helpers brought the men before the audience to see the pope. When the Pope's car arrived, the two became agitated and fell into the ground. One of the helpers told Giovanni to control himself. "I am not Giovanni," the reply came from a voice not his own. “The pope began to wave to the crowd," Amorth recalled, "and Giovanni and Marco started to howl, drool, shake and fly into a rage. The pope did not get flustered, he raised an arm and blessed the four people. The possessed were then hit by a wild jolt, their whole bodies were hit. They flew three meters backwards… and howled no longer." [ READ MORE ] ...

ITALY While parish priest Father Lorenzo Tanganelli started reading his Sunday sermon on a Gospel of Saint Matthew that tells of Jesus saying, "If your eyes causes you to sin, gouge it and throw it away," before his flock of around 300 parishioners in the parish of Sant'Andrea in Viareggio (northern Italy), Aldo Vianchinni (46), who sat in one of the back pews, started hearing voices commanding him to tear his eyes then and there. Then he started tearing his eyes from its sockets to the horror of the flock. An off-duty tried to help him. But even the doctor who attended to him in the nearby hospital failed to reinsert his eyes to its sockets. Father Tangenelli proceeded to finish the Eucharistic Celebration though, not letting the horrific commotion deter it. [ Full Story ]v