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 Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Illinois is planning an exorcism for the state after it approved gay marriage.
November 15th, 2013
10:10 AM ET
Illinois bishop plans gay-marriage exorcismBy Daniel Burke, Belief Blog Co-editor [twitter-follow screen_name='BurkeCNN'] (CNN) - The devil made them do it? According to a Catholic bishop in Springfield, Illinois, Satan was behind his state's recent legalization of same-sex marriage. So, next Wednesday, at about the same time Gov. Pat Quinn signs the gay marriage bill into law, Bishop Thomas Paprocki will hold an exorcism ceremony "in reparation for the sin of same-sex marriage." Paprocki, who's something of an expert on exorcism, says he's just following the Pope's marching orders. When Pope Francis, then Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, was an archbishop in Argentina, he called that country's legalization of same-sex marriage "a 'move' of the father of lies who wishes to confuse and deceive the children of God." In a statement released on Thursday, Paprocki said: "The pope's reference to the 'father of lies' comes from the Gospel of John, where Jesus refers to the devil as 'a liar and the father of lies.' So Pope Francis is saying that same-sex 'marriage' comes from the devil and should be condemned as such." Since his election as Pope in March, Francis seems to have taken a less combative approach to homosexuality. At a news conference in July, for example, he said "Who am I to judge?" a gay person who seeks to be a good person. Illinois politicians - including Catholics - cited the Pope's words when explaining their support for the state's same-sex marriage bill. In September, the Pope said the church has no right to "interfere spiritually" in the lives of gays and lesbians and chided Catholics who "obsess" about fighting culture war issues like abortion and same-sex marriage. MORE ON CNN: Pope Francis: Church can't 'interfere' with gays But Paprocki calls same-sex marriage "contrary to the plan of God" and says all Catholics who support it - from legislators to county clerks who issue marriage licenses - are "culpable of serious sin." The bishop has invited priests and lay Catholics to his exorcism ceremony, officially called "“Prayers of Supplication and Exorcism in Reparation for the Sin of Same-Sex Marriage,” which is scheduled for November 20 at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Springfield, Illinois. Paprocki says the ceremony will follow the Catholic Church's Rite of Exorcism, which explains that Satan not only possesses people, he can also invade places and things, including the church itself. "We must pray for deliverance from this evil which has penetrated our state and our church," Paprocki said. Exorcism is experiencing something of a renaissance in the United States, with the Catholic bishops recruiting dozens of priests to perform the ancient rite. Paprocki is among the bishops leading the recruiting drive. soundoff (3,013 Responses)« Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Next »
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Are we allowed to comment on this?
What is your se#ual orientation?
Your Depends are full – go change them.
By all means...please do.
Is the Bishop going to have his favorite alter boys by his side during the ceremony?
Butt of course.
Butt of course...
*altar boy.
Lets see this for what it is. Political posturing from this bishop to undermine the new , popular Pope. The Vatican is just as political as any nation's government. This bishop doesn't like the new, popular views of the Pope, who represents the change that the Vatican severely needs to go through. So he wants to bring to light older statements that the Pope has made.
Important career tip: Don't embarra ss your boss in public and justify it by throwing his own words in his face.
This Pope is trying to shift focus and attract young people and this Bishop is going against that. The Bishop in Germany didn't fare well when he displayed contentiousness instead of humbleness.
The Catholic is an international criminal enterprise that exists for the sole purpose of robbing the gullible and molesting the innocent.
That's all they've done for centuries.
First the military, now marriage.
Why do gay people want in to the worst insti/tutions?
Salient point.
well don't forget the benefits that couples in the U.S. receive just by way of being married. some suggest that the government get out of the marriage business, so that's an interesting option, but given the current situation, it's only fair that gay couples not be excluded from those bennies.
Misery loves company?
What??
Bi and ho-mo people have been around since before we discovered goddamned FIRE, man!
What the hell are you talking about?
Oh, wait. I see. You are amazed that they would want to be open about their orientation, not that they want in, right?
Because they've always been inside. The GOP is filled with gays, lesbians, and bi people who pretend to be straight just the way you like it.
And they cheat on their spouses left and right. Just what is it these people are supposed to do according to you?
Go back to pretending and hiding? Or they'll be discriminated against, right?
So...give in to the bullies like you because giving in to bullies is how you think the world should operate according to your bullying, psychotic 'god'? Or perhaps you meant something else. Whatever. Good grief.
The root post is what is known as jocularity, or in the vernacular "a joke".
Having spent years with the Signals battalion and subsequently moving into Toronto's gay village after leaving, you could say that I am both soldier and gay friendly.
While I've nothing against sodomy from a moral standpoint, you might do well to pull the di.ck out of your ass.
are there really people that believe in demons?
do you believe in evil?
Evil is a subjective social construct.
@mr, are you really going to suggest that demons cause evil? how childish is that?
How can you not believe in demons when you see them ruining our country from their places in government every single day? (and I am not only pointing to one political party)
Those are mental disorders, not demons.
Idiots, the corrupt and the power hungry are not demons, they're idiots, corrupt and power hungry.
The Catholic Church is pro-childmolestation and anti-gay marriage.
Who see's the hypocrisy in that?
And very harmful to the world, just like their stance on contraception that costs lives.
I'd be very careful interperting a book made up by a bunch of guys in Nicea....or the Pope...or God's Will....
Bishop you should spend more time trying to heal your church and it's gay pedophile priests.
I wouldn't really call them gay. Would you call a guy who molests little girls straight?
If the orientation is towards the opposite s3x only, then "straight" is the actual word for it. Did you have some other word we can use? If so, please share it with us. Anyone who harms children should be properly labeled before we put them up against a wall and shoot them, you see.
The proper definition is pedophile, regardless of their preference for male or female children. Just because someone is gay doesn't make them a pedophile so please don't confuse the two.
Most likely he could care less – and just wants to garner publicity and the attendant money that follows.
Did this man ever speak out about the evils of all the pedophile priests? If ever there was a time for an exorcism, that was surely it.
and people wonder why we laugh at the religious.
Laugh, or cry. A lot of what they do, like this cr ap against the gays, really makes me cry. It just goes to show that religion can be used to hurt people just as easily as violence, or anything else.
Here's an idea, why not hold an exorcism ceremony to exorcize all the pedophile priests that are still part of the Catholic church.
Better still, why not just cooperate with law enforcement, like they're supposed to?
How many here think that it's only a mater of time that Bishop Thomas Paprocki comes out of the closet as a self-loathing closeted gay man?
Is this a sad cry for help?
Or perhaps he's trying to draw attention away from his own pedophilia.
If "pedophilia" were actually linked with being gay no little girls would ever be molested by men, right?
Jesus is working so hard to get a taste of that internet cash. May the thieves and killers run roughshod over the devil's gay population in the shortest order. Be well-behaved as you are seen and your mind is known to Him. [Enter]
You'd think the Pope was getting the same treatment from this Bishop as President Obama gets from the Repbulicans.
You've done it! You've actually made me feel sympathy for a pope!
This is coming from a queen wearing a pageant crown and red dress!
I am a Satanic minister so I should perform an exorcism on him.
Probably it will be more effective- religion is already dying.
hahaha good work my friend
The Vatican is more evil than most of the Satanists I have met.
just keep him a way from the kids
This Bishop at least gets it. Until we fight these demons, the world around us will atrophy.
Can you prove that demons actually exist?
Can we prove evil exists?
Gays are proof.
Any man who thinks he can put himself between God and another man, by word or dance, is not only spiritually irrelevant but holds his strength to a power of evil not good. Let them dance and hate and spew their evil words, it is their souls they send to perdition not that of rational God loving men.
What's "it"? Some absolute moral "truth" perhaps? Can you demonstrate it without resorting to subjective means/human consensus? I won't hold my breath waiting for an answer.
You may hold your breath, for I am pleased to respond. "It' is morality. Atheists don't grasp that the Lord God blessed us with a moral code. A code in clear violation of human decency and thus sinful. Demons delight in the corruption of the people.
What demons are you referring to?
Satan's demons naturally.
Satan?? No such creature!
You are mistaken.
Each gay is subject to conjugation by the demons of hell.
Really? Where do you get this lovely wisdom?
I can smell the evil on them and the very thought of the horrid things they do make me ill. Unnatural = supernatural = demons = gays
Yeah, it must be tough to acknowledge that not everyone in the world is just like you. Especially when you're so awesome!!
I do not wish people to be like me, only obedient.
Agree completely. The world will be a better place if people are not like you.
The world would be a better place with no people. Everyone should aspire to live in Heaven for eternity.
Each gay is subject to conjugation
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They're to be turned into a verb?
Please look up the word if you are unfamiliar with all of its meanings. Thank you.
Please lookup the words "mindless" and "buffoon". You'll note your name is listed along with each.
While I did not check, I doubt the accuracy of your statement.
GAY – – Conjugations:
gay (adj.)
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pos . gay
comp. gayer
super. gayest
gay (n.)
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(sing.) gay
(plur.) gays
This post is not consistent with my post.
..as taught by an English Teacher from hell
not that this commentator has any God given desire to be consistent with differing opinions
You could walk towards a cop with a knife in your hand and go to your god and relieve the rest of us from your stupidity and hate.
We watch the "man" dance in his crimson fineries beseeching God to hate in the name of Paprocki.
Can we not shed a tear for such a little man already in his self-made purgatory?
He is greatly admired.