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from\u00a0spiritdaily.com<\/a><\/p>\n By Michael H. Brown<\/i><\/p>\n As ‘Katrina’ Showed, It’s Supposed To Be ‘City of Saints’, Not Center For Voodoo<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Isn’t is great, the way God times things? The ghoulishness of Halloween is followed swiftly with the saints (call on all of them!) who come marching in. After all, it is All Saints Day.<\/span><\/p>\n Ironically, we witnessed the same in New Orleans, which bears the nickname of the “City of Saints” and which saw Hurricane Katrina knock back the occultism that was so rampant in that city. Suddenly they are speaking a lot about God there.<\/span><\/p>\n “Don Glossop’s shop, ‘New Orleans Mistic’ [that’s the way they spell it] has been closed since Hurricane Katrina swamped the city two months ago, and most of his clients, who practice a local variant of voodoo, have scattered across the country,” reports ABC.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n “He fears that ‘Katrina,’ which laid waste to entire neighborhoods and claimed hundreds of lives here, may take another casualty: New Orleans’ status as the country’s voodoo capital.”<\/span><\/p>\n Noted this businessman: “As of today I would say it’s pretty dead.”<\/span><\/p>\n Let the saints march in and let the religion of the dead stay that way.<\/span><\/p>\n Voodoo has long been entrenched in New Orleans,<\/span> quietly practiced in homes with altars, candles, and incense to solve problems of the heart and wallet. Reports the network: “Before the storm tore through, about 15 percent of the city’s population actively practiced<\/i> according to Lisa Fannon, a tour guide, though estimates vary widely.”<\/span><\/p>\n When 15 percent of a populace may practice black magic — santeria, candomble, lucumi, voudoun, trance possession, by thousands of residents — God’s protection is placed at a distance. Unfortunately there are already pagans trying to reclaim the city.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Years ago a fine priest named Father Albert Hebert wrote a book called The Tears of Mary<\/i> and in it he pointed out that the International Pilgrim Statue of the Fatima Virgin wept in New Orleans. There were a number of other such incidents, reported Father Hebert — who died recently and lived in Louisiana. There is a shrine in the state called “Miracle of the Holy Rosary” where it was reported that Mary came to an elderly Creole man on a bayou.<\/span><\/p>\n This had prompted Father Hebert to ask why so many events were connected with New Orleans. “He then referred to a cartoon vision some children, I believe in Sicily, might have had, where New Orleans was mentioned as part of some important event,” noted a reader from Australia in a note to us a year ago.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n Events like Katrina are for us all, not just New Orleans. It is pointed out that stigmatic Therese Neumann of Germany<\/span><\/a> foresaw America as one day destroyed economically by natural disasters. In 1946, just after the end of World War II, she made the remark when asked by an American soldier if the United States would ever be destroyed or invaded in a war. <\/span><\/p>\n “There is an often recounted story which tells that Therese is the mystic who prophesied that because of the mercy of God, bombs would not fall on U.S. soil as a reward for the generosity of the American people to many other countries of the world,” notes another author. Instead, it is claimed, would arrive other means of correction.<\/span><\/p>\n There are those who have disputed that events like “Katrina” can come as a cleansing, <\/span>arguing that God would not allow anything like so cruel. Such views fly in the face of Scripture. God always has acted like this — correcting us, instead of watching us head to condemnation. And those who are evil have always caused the good to suffer with them.<\/span><\/p>\n We call these victim-souls (surely there were good people at Nineveh, as there are so many in New Orleans), and while the French Quarter, the “heart and soul” of the city, and the center of much debauchery, was spared utter destruction, the homes of those who operate evil businesses, along with their clients, were chased, at least for the time being, from the area.<\/span><\/p>\n