{"id":58292,"date":"2022-11-28T07:43:23","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T12:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=58292"},"modified":"2022-12-31T18:09:51","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T23:09:51","slug":"swiss-diocese-rids-exorcism-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/swiss-diocese-rids-exorcism-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Diocese Rids Exorcism Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From Swiss Info:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/resource\/image\/48086776\/landscape_ratio3x2\/280\/187\/92844b8d8e4ef489d638d28a9d268736\/6B2707DDE3E1263840C1A70D6F9F4577\/churtown.jpg\" alt=\"A view of Chur in southeast Switzerland\" width=\"463\" height=\"309\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Catholic diocese in Switzerland, once dubbed the \u2018Eldorado of exorcisms\u2019, has decided not to fill its vacant exorcist post, as it seeks to keep up with the times.<\/p>\n<p>The last exorcist of Chur died in 2020 after reputedly lifting a number of possessions during his career in southeast Switzerland.\u00a0But the diocese\u2019s new bishop, Joseph Maria Bonnemain, will not advertise for a replacement. \u201cWe don&#8217;t have to look for unusual causes for most problems,\u201d he told Swiss public television, SRF. Bonnemain was appointed by Pope Francis last year with a mandate of solving ongoing disputes between conservative and liberal Catholics in the diocese.<em> [SD note: e-mail this bishop!]<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"uncategorized\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1669621403\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Swiss Diocese Rids Exorcism Post\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Swiss Info: A Catholic diocese in Switzerland, once dubbed the \u2018Eldorado of exorcisms\u2019, has decided not to fill its.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-58292","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}