Cardinal bernardin satanist

  • Thus until the end of the century the Pie Imontese rulers allowed sects of all kinds, satanic and occult, considerable freedom for expansion.
  • A renowned exorcist in Rome recently released a book of memoirs in which he declares to know of the existence of Satanic sects in the Vatican.
  • This article seeks to map some of the contours of the specifically Catholic contribution to the wider Satanic Panic mythology.

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    Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin died on November 14, 1996, after a moving and profoundly Christian battle with pancreatic cancer that edified Americans across the political and religious spectrums. Fourteen years after his holy death, the cardinal is remembered primarily for his end-of-life ministry to fellow cancer sufferers, for his chairmanship of the committee that produced the American bishops’ 1983 pastoral letter “The Challenge of Peace,” and for his advocacy of a “consistent ethic of life.” Those achievements were not the whole of the Bernardin story, however.

    In his prime, Joseph Bernardin was arguably the most powerful Catholic prelate in American history; he was certainly the most consequential since the heyday of James Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. When he was in his early forties, Bernardin was the central figure in defining the culture and modus operandi of the U.S. bishops’ conference. Later, when he became archbis

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    Hours after being accused Friday of sexually abusing a teenager in the 1970s, a calm huvudregel Joseph Bernardin faced a throng of reporters and said, “I can assure you that all my life I have led a chaste, celibate life.”

    Nonetheless, the spiritual leader to 2.3 million Roman Catholics in the Chicago area said he was submitting himself to a process that he had established last year to review allegations of clergy sexual abuse against minors.

    When Bernardin overhauled the archdiocese’s policies for handling such charges, in the wake of a spate of sex-abuse allegations against Chicago-area priests, he allowed for the possibility that he might one day be so accused.

    Friday, that possibility became reality.

    Steven J. Cook, 34, of Philadelphia filed a civil lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati alleging that Bernardin and another priest sexually abused him from 1975 to 1977.

    At the time of the alleged incidents, Cook was a teenage pre-seminary student in Cinc

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    Satanism: More and More Widespread Among Catholics

    SATANISM: MORE AND MORE WIDESPREAD AMONG CATHOLICS

    by Stefania Falasca, with the collaboration of Stefano Gasseri

    Is Turin really the capital of Satanism in Italy? The notion is now so widespread that it seems to have become a commonplace not merely for the people concerned but also for the man in the street. As early as 1986 the idea was launched bygd the German weekly when it portrayed Turin as a city besieged by the nightmare of Satanism, where thousands of adepts were constantly engaged in devil worship. The uproar caused bygd a 1988 conference on Diabolos, Dialogos, Daimon held there, and sponsored by the city government, merely confirmed the impression.

    This general impression does, in fact, have some historical basis. During the second half of the 19th century, this city capital of the Savoy monarchical seat became a refuge for a great many magicians and followers of the occult, attracted to Turin by substantial help from the