Rapmaster2000: the Italians have a weird sex/occult cultural narrative that Americans don't have.

Speak for yourself.

medius: Gangster Enrico De Pedis? Seriously?

I wonder if the church has documentation on those excorsims, perhaps some sort of Pedis File.

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Father Gabriel Amorth, 85, who has carried out 70,000 exorcisms

No you didn't, you delusional, pedophiliac fark.

He's 85. If he started doing exorcisms when he was 20, that would be right about three per day, every day of his life.

No you didn't, you delusional, pedophiliac fark.

Unless he did them 10 at a time

Could be he was performing mass exorcisms in stadiums.

Shabash: 1. A heroic, non-delusional, squeaky-clean whistleblower at or near the top who publicly exposes & sweeps out all the dirt



"The young carpenter from Nazareth? I know him well. Promising young man. He died badly."

What gives... submitted this with (I think) a funnier headline yesterday...

/calling bullshiat. catholic priests couldn't risk getting the girls pregnant, thus the choice of boys

Snarcoleptic_Hoosier: Therion: Mugato: [i.dailymail.co.uk image 306x496]

Father Gabriel Amorth, 85, who has carried out 70,000 exorcisms

No you didn't, you delusional, pedophiliac fark.

He's 85. If he started doing exorcisms when he was 20, that would be right about three per day, every day of his life.

No you didn't, you delusional, pedophiliac fark.

No no no! He's in charge of the Vatican gym, and has done 70,000 exercises in his life!

no no.. he is in charge of the vatican gym and done 70,000 exercising boys in his life!

DamnYankees: "Is there ANYTHING worthwhile in Catholicism other than the architecture and some of the painting and sculpture?"

Well, in all fairness, some of the Gregorian chants and other music is worthwhile, too. Also, the Catholic Church used to ordain married priests for hundreds of years. If memory serves, it was only when the Church started losing estates to the clergy's children that they rethought the idea. Their views about human sexuality have been getting squirrelier and squirrelier ever since.

Unfortunately, today's so-called leaders of the Church make Republicans look progressive. And they've got all the moral authority of a perv farking a dead dog in broad daylight outside a child care center or school (I forget which it was in that one really weird fark thread).

\This particular priest sounds like a nutjob, but then the article says they did find bones not belonging to the mobster in the tomb so I hope they aren't from this poor missing girl.

I prefered the storey on the side bar about Michelle Rodrigez.

BMFPitt: Mugato: Shabash: If the Roman Catholic Church is going to survive & thrive in the future, they need at least one of three things to happen:
1. A heroic, non-delusional, squeaky-clean whistleblower at or near the top who publicly exposes & sweeps out all the dirt
2. Married priests
3. Women priests

How far in the future are you talking about? Because right now they seem to be doing just fine. When you're an organization that can survive being exposed to covering up child rape, you're pretty much Kryptonite-proof.

Go to a Catholic church on Sunday and see how many people under 60 you can find.

They're losing membership in the U.S. and Europe, but they're rapidly expanding in Africa and Asia. They thrive in areas where people are impoverished and poorly educated, so it will be a long while before they really have to change anything.

Mugato: Father Gabriel Amorth, 85, who has carried out 70,000 exorcisms

That's one a day for 191 years, 9 months and 7 days. Give or take. Was he exorcising them in 100 person groups?

Sir Not Sure The Unscannable: calling bullshiat. catholic priests couldn't risk getting the girls pregnant, thus the choice of boys

Yes, that's what makes this unbelievable. Sure, there's the kidnapping of a 15-year-old for Vatican sex partying, but it's the risk of pregnancy that's absurd.

"At the time it was said the burial was given the go ahead because prison chaplain Father Vergari told bishops that De Pedis had 'repented while in jail and also done a lot of work for charity,' including large donations to the Catholic Church."

Ah yes. The old "Be a total monster on Earth, but give the church loads of blood money and get into heaven anyway" sh*t.

Rapmaster2000: From Amanda Knox and her satanic sex orgy to this... the Italians have a weird sex/occult cultural narrative that Americans don't have. It's still better than tentacle sex.

We had one big time in the 80s. There were people who spent decades in jail because of blatantly fabricated "recovered memories" that have long since been retracted.

Father Amroth to be bundled off to a mental institution and silenced in 3 .. 2 ..

Roja Herring: We have a "gayborhood?" I live uptownish and had no idea.

Oak Lawn / Turtle Creek. In case you want to get your jimmies rustled. I looked up the wiki page just to have a link to give you, and I was greatly amused to see that "Nickname: Gayborhood" is right there at the top of the sidebar.

My wife and I went to dinner in that area with some out-of-town friends after a Dallas Stars game, and our table was full of the only straight couples in sight.

Therion: He's 85. If he started doing exorcisms when he was 20, that would be right about three per day, every day of his life.

He may just be counting "Number of demons exorcised" rather than "Number of people he's performed exorcisms on." Many "possessed" people claim to have multiple demons. "My name is Legion, for we are many," and all that jazz.

malaktaus: They're losing membership in the U.S. and Europe, but they're rapidly expanding in Africa and Asia. They thrive in areas where people are impoverished and poorly educated, so it will be a long while before they really have to change anything

Is that why they discourage contraception in those areas?

Humean_Nature: Mugato: Father Gabriel Amorth, 85, who has carried out 70,000 exorcisms

No you didn't, you delusional, pedophiliac fark.

CSB:
I used to work with a guy who was concerned - terrified, in fact - about the prospect of us moving the office to a neighborhood in uptown that, in addition to being a big business area, is known as "the gayborhood" in Dallas. He was really worried about moving to a place where demons ran free with impunity, and was afraid for his safety and the safety of our clients.

I used to make fun of these people, but ever since meeting him, now I just feel sorry for them. He was honestly terrified in a little-kid-hiding-under-the-covers kind of way. What must it be like to go through life with that level of fear? I'm afraid of car accidents and ebola and a mugging, but these are all Earthly threats. If I thought I might get skull-farked by a three-headed demon with its skin on fire, I think I probably wouldn't get out of bed. Poor bastards.

You don't have to be afraid of Ebola. Really.

okay..

so reality on the numbers.
70K is not possible for a number of reasons the main one being performing an exorcism, if done correctly, it takes a fair bit of work and leaves them exhausted. at most an experienced priest could do one every second or third day and even at that rate he could not keep that up for very long. After more then 10 or 20 the more powerful demons would be seeking people close to him just to prove their demonliness and it would exhaust him even more with periods of a week or more of rest in between

Demons are not really concentrated in a geographical area that much. So somehow doing 3 per day, day in, day out PLUS travel time? Not gonna happen.


and finally.. if you are actually exorcising the same person over and over ( the only possible explanation given the unbelievable number) you are doing it very very wrong.

I don't know how on earth it could ever happen, but I'd love to find out what all the Vatican's secrets are.

Cythraul: I thought the Catholic church stopped doing exorcisms?

You kidding? They still have the Holy Inquisition in operation to this very day! They just rebranded it "The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith", just like other agencies of evil do to distract the masses (examples, Blackwater, British Petroleum, etc.)

Ain't no party like a Vatican sex party, cuz a Vatican sex party is infallible.

malaktaus: BMFPitt: Mugato: Shabash:
They're losing membership in the U.S. and Europe, but they're rapidly expanding in Africa and Asia. They thrive in areas where people are impoverished and poorly educated, so it will be a long while before they really have to change anything.

that's fine, if their growth is in those places it means they'll be hemorrhaging money faster then they get tithe it back in. and frankly bleeding the monster out is the only way you're gonna get rid of it.

CapeFearCadaver: Father Gabriel Amorth... the entire time I was reading TFA, this kept playing in my head: Link

'the Devil was is at work in the Vatican.' I think he might be on to something...

Dammit. Work has officially ended for the day now.

Live for honor, glory!

Ain't no party like a Vatican sex party cause a Vatican sex party don't stop!

kvinesknows: okay..

so reality on the numbers.
70K is not possible for a number of reasons the main one being performing an exorcism, if done correctly, it takes a fair bit of work and leaves them exhausted. at most an experienced priest could do one every second or third day and even at that rate he could not keep that up for very long. After more then 10 or 20 the more powerful demons would be seeking people close to him just to prove their demonliness and it would exhaust him even more with periods of a week or more of rest in between

Demons are not really concentrated in a geographical area that much. So somehow doing 3 per day, day in, day out PLUS travel time? Not gonna happen.


and finally.. if you are actually exorcising the same person over and over ( the only possible explanation given the unbelievable number) you are doing it very very wrong.

I bet he just phones them in. You know, with technology. Hello. It's 2012, man!

kvinesknows: 70K is not possible for a number of reasons the main one being performing an exorcism, if done correctly, it takes a fair bit of work and leaves them exhausted. at most an experienced priest could do one every second or third day and even at that rate he could not keep that up for very long. After more then 10 or 20 the more powerful demons would be seeking people close to him just to prove their demonliness and it would exhaust him even more with periods of a week or more of rest in between

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Tell me more about the practical logistics of fighting demons.

Coming on a Bicycle: You don't have to be afraid of Ebola. Really.

It's not that I spend much time worrying about it, or anything, it's just that I read The Hot Zone at an impressionable age.

Sir Not Sure The Unscannable: What gives... submitted this with (I think) a funnier headline yesterday...

/calling bullshiat. catholic priests couldn't risk getting the girls pregnant, thus the choice of boys

Catholic priest don't have a problem with abortion when it is used to cover up evidence of their rape.

Shabash: If the Roman Catholic Church is going to survive & thrive in the future, they need at least one of three things to happen:
1. A heroic, non-delusional, squeaky-clean whistleblower at or near the top who publicly exposes & sweeps out all the dirt
2. Married priests
3. Women priests

Well it appears that Pope Benny is a big fan of The (Almost certainly fake) "Prophecies of St Malachy" concerning the list of future popes as evidenced that he chose the name Benedict (In the phrophecy this pope is called "The Glory of the Olives" and the olive branch is a symbol of the Benedictine order)

What he doesn;t seem to realize is that IF those Prophecies WERE accurate pope Benny is basically the guy who damn nearly destroys the church requiring a hero to arise to save the church (and either bring about the end times or the end of the papacy or the Catholic church itself):
" In the extreme persecution of the Holy Roman Church, there will sit Peter the Roman, who will nourish the sheep in many tribulations; when they are finished, the city of seven hills will be destroyed, and the dreadful judge will judge his people. The end. "

Coming on a Bicycle: kvinesknows: okay..

so reality on the numbers.
70K is not possible for a number of reasons the main one being performing an exorcism, if done correctly, it takes a fair bit of work and leaves them exhausted. at most an experienced priest could do one every second or third day and even at that rate he could not keep that up for very long. After more then 10 or 20 the more powerful demons would be seeking people close to him just to prove their demonliness and it would exhaust him even more with periods of a week or more of rest in between

Demons are not really concentrated in a geographical area that much. So somehow doing 3 per day, day in, day out PLUS travel time? Not gonna happen.


and finally.. if you are actually exorcising the same person over and over ( the only possible explanation given the unbelievable number) you are doing it very very wrong.

I bet he just phones them in. You know, with technology. Hello. It's 2012, man!

Or, sometimes exorcists claim that a single person is infested with dozens, hundreds or sometimes thousands of "demons". If he's counting each demon driven out rather than each person operated on...

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Father Gabriel Amorth, 85, who has carried out 70,000 exorcisms

No you didn't, you delusional, pedophiliac fark.

He's 85. If he started doing exorcisms when he was 20, that would be right about three per day, every day of his life.

No you didn't, you delusional, pedophiliac fark.

Here's someone who knows something about unlikely career statistics:

At the time of his funeral there were raised eyebrows when despite his criminal past church chiefs allowed De Pedis to be buried in the crypt of Sant'Apollinare.

At the time it was said the burial was given the go ahead because prison chaplain Father Vergari told bishops that De Pedis had 'repented while in jail and also done a lot of work for charity,' including large donations to the Catholic Church.


So De Pedis bought himself a Papal Dispensation. You've come along way Catholic Church. Where's Martin Luther when you need him.

Well that's kind of creepy. Orlandi's a family name, but we're from nowhere near the Vatican.

Missing girl? Must be a hoax. These are Catholics we're talking about.

I knew those hot catholic school girl uniforms would get to them eventually.

kvinesknows: okay..

so reality on the numbers.
70K is not possible for a number of reasons the main one being performing an exorcism, if done correctly, it takes a fair bit of work and leaves them exhausted. at most an experienced priest could do one every second or third day and even at that rate he could not keep that up for very long. After more then 10 or 20 the more powerful demons would be seeking people close to him just to prove their demonliness and it would exhaust him even more with periods of a week or more of rest in between

Demons are not really concentrated in a geographical area that much. So somehow doing 3 per day, day in, day out PLUS travel time? Not gonna happen.


and finally.. if you are actually exorcising the same person over and over ( the only possible explanation given the unbelievable number) you are doing it very very wrong.

PLUS time travel??

how do u time travel time
that's something only a monk knows

Humean_Nature: Tell me more about the practical logistics of fighting demons.

you really dont want to know

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Father Gabriel Amorth, 85, who has carried out 70,000 exorcisms

No you didn't, you delusional, pedophiliac fark.

He's 85. If he started doing exorcisms when he was 20, that would be right about three per day, every day of his life.

No you didn't, you delusional, pedophiliac fark.

It was misspelled, it should say exorgasm. He has carried out over 70,000 exorgasms. Alter boys need love too.

Sounds like this guy is a complete nutjob. What with the talk about 70k exorcisms, harry potter and yoga. I bet Elvis and John F. Kennedy were at those sex parties.

In 2006, Father Amorth, who was ordained a priest in 1954, gave an interview to Vatican Radio in which he said Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and Russian dictator Josef Stalin were possessed by the Devil.

According to secret Vatican documents recently released the then wartime Pope Pius XII attempted a 'long distance exorcism' of Hitler but it failed to have any effect.

It says something about the story that this is almost normal.

LeroyBourne: I knew those hot catholic school girl uniforms would get to them eventually.

CATHOLIC SKOOLGURL THREAD!!! GO!

Eh, I'm less curious about how many exorcisms he's performed than the fact that the crypt DID have bones in it that weren't the mobster De Pedis. So, if they do turn out to be this kids' bones.... that would be very interesting.

Therion: Mugato: [i.dailymail.co.uk image 306x496]

Father Gabriel Amorth, 85, who has carried out 70,000 exorcisms

No you didn't, you delusional, pedophiliac fark.

He's 85. If he started doing exorcisms when he was 20, that would be right about three per day, every day of his life.

No you didn't, you delusional, pedophiliac fark.

Maybe "exorcising demons" is his euphemism for beating off. If it is I could believe his numbers because I've got to be at like 37,000.

ChipNASA: CATHOLIC SKOOLGURL THREAD!!! GO!

started much too late

I'm gonna call BULLshiat, if it was from a Vatican sex orgy it would be a missing boy.

Also Gawd isn't real or else the Vatican would be getting the Soddom and Gomorra treatment.

amindofiron: and frankly bleeding the monster out is the only way you're gonna get rid of it.

This is the same thing, word for word, that I tell the g/f to get her into bed.

It is truly amazing (in a sad and pathetic way) that there are people who do not believe in Santa or the Tooth Fairy but they believe that demonic possession is real! Bwahahahahahaha!

ChipNASA: LeroyBourne: I knew those hot catholic school girl uniforms would get to them eventually.

CATHOLIC SKOOLGURL THREAD!!! GO!

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I'm glad I triggered that. I'll play.