{"id":86657,"date":"2026-09-17T09:19:36","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T13:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=86657"},"modified":"2026-09-17T09:20:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T13:20:01","slug":"renowned-exorcist-father-gabriele-amorths-7-lessons-on-actions-of-the-devil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/renowned-exorcist-father-gabriele-amorths-7-lessons-on-actions-of-the-devil\/","title":{"rendered":"Renowned Exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth\u2019s 7 Lessons On Actions Of The Devil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From<em> EWTN News:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-[18px] md:text-[20px] first-of-type:mt-5 mt-[16px] lg:mt-[28px] leading-[28px] md:leading-8 normal \">Father Gabriele Amorth, a renowned Italian exorcist who passed away 10 years ago on <a class=\"text-red-500 hover-underline-animation-red\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ewtnnews.com\/world\/europe\/a-final-farewell-to-romes-exorcist-the-funeral-of-father-amorth\">Sept. 16, 2016<\/a>, left behind a valuable legacy of lessons about the devil, drawn from Amorth\u2019s many years of ministry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-[18px] md:text-[20px] first-of-type:mt-5 mt-[16px] lg:mt-[28px] leading-[28px] md:leading-8 normal \">Here are seven lessons he shared throughout his life:<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"text-2xl xl:text-3xl font-semibold mt-10 mb-5\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">1. \u201cSatan is always active. He has been the tempter from the beginning.\u201d<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"text-[18px] md:text-[20px] mt-0 leading-[28px] md:leading-8 normal after-heading\">In a June 2004 <a class=\"text-red-500 hover-underline-animation-red\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ewtnnews.com\/world\/europe\/the-devil-is-content-if-people-dont-believe-in-him-says-top-exorcist-in-revealing-interview\">interview<\/a> with Italian Vatican expert Sandro Magister, Amorth discussed the state of Satanism and the devil\u2019s influence on contemporary culture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-[18px] md:text-[20px] first-of-type:mt-5 mt-[16px] lg:mt-[28px] leading-[28px] md:leading-8 normal \">\u201cIn general terms, Satan is always active. He has been the tempter from the beginning. He does everything he can to make man sin, and whenever evil is committed, he is behind it \u2014 though it remains clear that man freely chooses his own actions. But there is also an extraordinary form of action by the evil one: diabolical possession,\u201d he said at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From EWTN News: Father Gabriele Amorth, a renowned Italian exorcist who passed away 10 years ago on Sept. 16, 2016,.<\/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":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-86657","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86657","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=86657"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86660,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86657\/revisions\/86660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}