From Forums of the Virgin Mary [translated, unedited]:
In what situations the priests have made sins invisible:
One of the central objectives of the demons has always been the corruption of the priests, because they know that behind it they drag many more souls.
A typical case of corruption has been the disaster of abuse.
And another case, less well known, but also of great effect, is to corrupt the catechesis that priests give, inciting them not to preach about large areas of sin and even deny that the devil exists.
And to corrupt the catechesis, the devil has used the modernists and managed to impose relativism within Christianity.
Here we will talk about what the evil one has managed to do to corrupt the preaching of many priests and pervert the catechesis received by the faithful, and what consequences it has brought to Catholics.
And on the other hand, how priests with good sermons can save the faithful many problems produced by the devil.
For a couple of decades, exorcists have been warning that Satanism, occultism, and witchcraft are a growing problem in the world, opening doors to the evil one.
And there are also cases of people with demonic disorders who have practiced “new age” therapies; we do not mention them here to avoid censorship, but everyone knows what we mean.
This type of person is usually far from God or has a very weak faith, but they do not know it, and they have not received a good catechism.
And this happens because the great deceiver, Satan, has managed to change people’s ideas by blurring the distinction between what is good and what is bad.
There are many harmful things that have been normalized, for example some young people today take drugs like it’s nothing.
And on the other hand, there has been in recent decades a malformation about what sin is, and the tools to protect oneself.
It is not known that when we sin, sanctifying Grace is extinguished in the heart and we drive away the protecting power of Grace.
Sometimes a person who practices various types of occultism or new age therapies begins to have, for example, feelings of sadness and systematically negative thoughts.
And if they are far from God or have not had a good catechism, they think that this is something purely psychological.
Even when they have symptoms like inability to sleep and very real nightmares. [scroll for more]
But also many times they take as more or less normal and the result of their own evolution of thought the aversion to the sacred — not being able to keep their eyes fixed on a Cross, a holy card, or an image of the Virgin, or of the saints, feeling upset when entering a church, or even having to leave Mass because they can’t stand the tension anymore.
All these are signs that should alert the person of a possible diabolical attack and therefore it is necessary to go soon to a priest to request a blessing or a prayer of liberation, before it becomes greater.
And if necessary, that the priest refer him or her to an exorcist to deal with the problem in a more systematic way.
But then they must fall to a priest who knows how to identify these symptoms and does not consider them simply as psychological problems.
For example, an exorcist has said that he once served in a parish that had several decades of catechesis denying the existence of the devil and hell and the need for Confession.
And when he instituted the Saint Michael the Archangel prayer, parishioners complained that he was scaring their children.
And then his answer was that the only one who trembles with that prayer is Satan and the demons, and if his children are scared it is because they have a problem.
The lack of good catechesis has been to blame for many Catholics falling into the occult and sin, and that is the responsibility of the parish priests.
Another exorcist said that when he went to bless a house, he saw an altar with pagan idols.
Another saw that the person who lived there was doing new age rituals.
And in several houses, blessings to destroy Ouija boards and satanic books.
The number of Catholics in a parish who dabble in occult things depends largely on the parish priest.
If you preach about the evil one and about sin, then you can convince many of the existence of these evils, either from the pulpit or in the confessional.
There are probably believers sitting in the pews who are dabbling in the occult and superstition, and others who have all but abandoned the faith and embraced new age, yet think they are doing things that are acceptable to Catholicism.
However, what abounds today are poorly catechized Catholics.
Fundamental themes of the Creed and Catholic catechesis have disappeared from ordinary preaching, such as redemption and eternal life, sin and grace, the Commandments.
Especially the Sixth Commandment — you shall not commit impure acts — is a thing of the past.
Even less is preached about the existence of the devil and the threat of eternal damnation. [scroll for more]
Relativism has prevailed and in this age we can no longer expect to clearly define what to believe and what mistakes to watch out for.
But thank God we have a way to orient ourselves, because we have the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which is the point of reference that frees us from contradictions, and on which the faithful should rely.
For example, a priest reported that he preached on communication with the dead, and a couple who heard him went to see him because they had lost a small son and had been trying to communicate with him through spiritualism for years and did not know that it was sinful and dangerous. .
So they went to Confession and closed this spiritual door, through which the devil could easily have entered their lives.
In the confessional, the priests wage spiritual war against the devil, because whenever there is sin, the devil is present, either in the genesis of that sin or in keeping it alive.
But unfortunately many priests take Confession as spiritual help and psychological support for people, and not as an instrument in the battle against the evil one.
The devil wants the priests to believe that he does not exist, because if he convinces the shepherd, then the sheep become more vulnerable.
As Saint John Vianney said, “a priest goes to heaven or hell, with a thousand people following behind.”
Christ’s mandate to priests includes the deliverance of souls from the devil’s influence.
But unfortunately, most priests receive no instruction or training in this area during their seminary years.
And so many leave thinking that the blessing is something for the pentecostals and that the prayers of liberation are a childish belief.
And how has it come to this?
It has come about because modernism established the idea that the devil is just a way of giving evil a name.
And therefore there are no demons that attack people and even come to possess people.
To the point, no one less than the superior of the Jesuits, Arturo Sosa Abascal, has said on more than one occasion that the devil is not real but something symbolic; he received criticism from the exorcists, he retracted, but then he has continued to say so.
There are many faithful who suffer attacks from the evil one and who do not know it because the priests do not realize it and even normalize what happens to them.
Another drama that sometimes happens is that people who drift into the occult suffer and want to get out, but often have no idea what to do.
And many times, when they go to a priest, they find one who does not believe in the devil or in deliverance prayers or in exorcist priests!
And then a true diabolical trap is produced that leads many people to not find the way out.
But when they find a good shepherd, things are solved in time.
A priest tells the story of a girl who had entered Hollywood after desperately seeking fame in acting.
Quickly, she was offered a fast track to success, but was required to commit various sins in order to achieve these promotions.
After compromising several times and committing these sins, she was taken to a large gathering of Hollywood people that involved the group’s participation in a satanic ritual.
At that time, she ran away from the party and went to a church to pray.
She was possessed, albeit weakly, as she rejected the satanic ritual.
But it was evident that she was, because he could barely get into the Church.
And fortunately, it turned out that on that day, a priest was confessing who turned out to be young, of good catechism, and assistant to an exorcist, who happened to be visiting the city because of his dying mother.
He heard her confession and through a prayer of deliverance, he completely freed her from the weak possession.
Well up to here what we wanted to talk about how the preaching and catechesis given by many priests have been a breeding ground for the devil to divert many faithful and even possess them…
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