PASTOR'S CORNER-Exorcising the Evil Spirits working overtime in abortion clinics

[Dawn Marie]

Exorcising the Evil Spirits working overtime in abortion clinics Fourth Sunday of April 2012: 2nd Sunday after Easter In Dayton, Ohio, the local 40 Days for Life leader, Ruth Deddens, obtained permission from the Archdiocese of Cincinnati to have priests join their prayers outside the Women’s Medical Center on Sunday with specific prayers to drive away evil presences from the area. Rick Pender, spokesman for Planned Parenthood of Southwest Ohio, told the Daily News[1]:

We don’t agree that we’re doing something evil. We’re providing a service that is needed and appreciated by a lot of people.   Dedden’s idea was not her own—it was modeled off the successful exorcism campaign in Rockford, Illinois, where a bizarre anti-Christian abortion clinic finally closed its doors this year. By the time the Rockford clinic closed following the revelation of serious health violations, NIWC had become notorious for its anti-Christian signage, including a nun in a coffin, a crucified rubber chicken, and personalized slogans insulting pro-life witnesses outside. One sign suggested that NIWC had killed 50,000 children while “JC,” or Jesus Christ, had only saved 50.   Rockford pro-life leader Kevin Rilott explained that when a local group of priests was granted permission by the Rockford diocese to regularly pray exorcism prayers outside the building, the change was unmistakable. “We saw a huge change at this clinic. The number of abortions went down, the number of saves went up,” said Rilott.   The moment they began saying these prayers was the beginning of the end of this clinic… At times all four would surround the building on its four sides and say the exorcism prayers together, at which time, the clinic owner, always responded predictably—immediately leaving the building until the prayers wrapped up.   Frequent Catholic protestors at abortion clinics know that the abuse and ferocity coming from members of the opposition is not quite natural. You sense there a hatred, a rejection of anything connected with order, life, God and the soul. It is as if you saw in actual fact the everlasting battle between the forces of God and those of evil, the standard of St. Michael, Quis ut Deus—Who is like God—and that of Satan, Non serviam—I shall not serve. To murder yearly over a million innocent lives in a civilized country is not something natural. Other forces are at play, which can be dealt with only with the opposite supernatural powers.   That is what exorcisms are all about. We have previously mentioned the poverty of modern-day conciliar exorcism. There is little doubt that priests are all powerful, who believe in themselves as God’s representative, and have faith in what they say and perform. Would that these valiant men were using the old ritual in Latin[2] for the cleansing of such “clinics” of death!   Footnote   1 Reported on March 16, 2012 on LifeSiteNews.   2 This is in reference to the Vatican’s former chief exorcist, Fr. Gabrielle Amorth, who in an June 2000 interview for 30 Days magazine stated that the new rite of exorcism just published was "…a farce. An incredible obstacle that is likely to prevent us from acting against the demon. …A blunt weapon.... Efficacious prayers [in Latin], prayers that had been in existence for twelve centuries, were suppressed and replaced by new ineffective prayers." SOURCE