Category: spiritual battle
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The Earling Exorcism: Father Theophilus Riesinger’s 23-Day Battle in Iowa
The extraordinary case of Emma Schmidt, the claims preserved by witnesses, and the victory that belongs to Jesus Christ alone. In 1928, inside a secluded convent near Earling, Iowa, a Capuchin priest began a solemn exorcism that would become one of the most widely discussed cases of alleged demonic possession in American Catholic history. The…
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Why Lust Remains One of the Enemy’s Most Powerful Weapons Against Souls
The image before us vividly illustrates a spiritual reality that the Church has warned about throughout the centuries: lust is not merely a disorder of the passions but one of the most effective snares used by the devil to draw souls away from God. The distorted expressions, disordered desires, and inward emptiness depicted remind us…