Category: Spiritual Warfare
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The World Hated Him First
The Richmond Catholic Memo, the machinery of suspicion, and why the Church Christ founded will always be an enemy of the spirit of the age “If the world hate you, know ye, that it hath hated me before you.”— John 15:18, Douay-Rheims There is a temptation whenever Catholics discover something like the FBI’s Richmond Catholic…
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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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The Five Levels of Demonic Influence
What the Catholic Church actually teaches about temptation, oppression, possession, and spiritual warfare. “Greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.” — 1 John 4:4 (Douay-Rheims), Douay-Rheims Hollywood vs. Catholic Reality We live in a strange age. Modern culture often rejects belief in the supernatural while simultaneously obsessing over…