Recession is the devil's work

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Last month, Ruth Gledhill at Times Online, reported on our old friend, Gabriel Amorth, the Vatican's favorite devil chaser and exorcist. Gabriel lives and breathes the devil. He finds the devil everywhere. Even in the Harry Potter books.

But Gabriel has to keep reminding folks about the devil and the work of the devil because if the devil should be forgotten Gabriel's out of a job!

So Gabriel tends to see the devil in places the rest of us would not think to link with Satan; like the world-wide recession. Here's what he says, in part:

"The Devil also waits on economic experts and investors. He give [sic] the wrong decisions, and thus create [sic] confusion and crisis. It was also the biggest victory of the devil, if his existence is denied."

Most important is to admit the existence of the devil. Then Gabriel can go on exorcising the devil from people bedeviled by the devil. At least for awhile. I think he's 82 or 83 years old.


What I don't understand is why god doesn't do something. Who is the devil? Where did the devil come from? I don't read of the devil in the Torah. I know there are many beliefs about all of this, but one of them must be the correct belief, right?

Is the devil more powerful than god, that he can run loose and demonize people so old Roman exorcists like Amorth have a job?

Has anyone seen the devil?

Why doesn't god just slap down the devil once and for all?

None of this makes much sense.

Haunted hospital

[Hooded monk ghost photo from paranormal.about.com]

In Derby, the UK, a new hospital has arisen called the Royal Hospital. It was built on the site of the old Derby City General Hospital.

But there's a problem. Evidently, Derby is "the most haunted place in Britain, with more reports of ghosts, poltergeists, werewolves and other supernatural phenomena than anywhere else in the UK."

And a ghost has been showing up in the new hospital! Some members of the staff have seen " a cloaked figure dressed in black roaming wards and corridors." They are frightened, or more accurately, "scared witless."

What to do?

Well, hell's bells, call the Bishop of Derby. The bishop has to approve exorcisms and the hospital decided they needed an exorcism.

The chaplain's got it all taken care of, and someone from the cathedral will be coming out to exorcise the ghost shortly.


Thank God?