I am indebted to http://slatts.blogspot.com/2010/03/chief-exorcist-father-gabriele-amorth.html for the following information:
Chief exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth says Devil is in the Vatican
Sex abuse scandals in the Roman Catholic Church are proof that "the Devil is at work inside the Vatican", according to the Holy See's chief exorcist.
Father Gabriele Amorth, 85, who has been the Vatican's chief exorcist for 25 years and says he has dealt with 70,000 cases of demonic possession, said that the consequences of satanic infiltration included power struggles at the Vatican as well as "cardinals who do not believe in Jesus, and bishops who are linked to the Demon".
He added: "When one speaks of 'the smoke of Satan' [a phrase coined by Pope Paul VI in 1972] in the holy rooms, it is all true – including these latest stories of violence and paedophilia." ...
A staggeringly inadequate and irrelevant response to probably the worst challenge to the church in centuries! The very recent statement from the bishops of England and Wales is at least an acknowledgment that they are at last beginning to get it.
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