Thursday, August 19, 2010

Mexican Clergy Being Trained to Perform Exorcisms

MEXICO CITY – Mexico's Catholic Church is training clerics and believers to be exorcists so that they will not fall victim to evil, as well as to be therapists so they can treat people with neuroses and depression.

Mexico's City's auxiliary archbishop, Florencio Armando Colin, told Efe that the training is being carried out in response to the existing demand in church parishes from people who believe that they are possessed or are feeling the symptoms of depression.

"Many believers come to the parishes who seem to be possessed, but they are not. They simply come with that harmful burden that pervades their personal, psychological, moral (and religious) life," he said.

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