Well, yes, I'm sure that's correct. The person who said that is someone whose learning and faith I respect highly.
But then, I think Catholicism is extreme, when you strip it of an imposed nuance, and look at in it's stark contrast to the world around us. At times, it seems extreme compared to the culture of the Church itself, in the developed nations.
Let me put it this way: every diocese is supposed to have an exorcist. There are less than a dozen in the US.
That's extreme, in a bad way.
Hell is real. That's extreme too.
If you are not extreme about your religion--you are lukewarm. And Revelations tells us about the lukewarm.
And that's extreme.
Of course, I may be wrong. I'm not all that well educated, or catechized.
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You just take your religion seriously, and why not? You're not the only one fed up with this "be nice at all costs" mentality permeating the country like a pandemic.
Wanna see "extreme"? Think of an eternity in Hell, how is that for "extreme"?
"Lukewarm" oh how I sometimes fear that that will be my 'grade'.
Maybe we should send out Greeting Cards depicting Rogier van der Weyden’s 15th Century Last Judgement. (The same painting that pulled Peter Hitchens into Christianity!)
I don't think it was extreme. It was out of Love for your church, the members and the religious in particular. Sometimes it takes real Love to say the stuff that needs to be said.
I am shocked to hear we have so few excorcists.
When I worked as a Public Librarian, every so often someone would come in trying to find information on the subject because they were having "issues" with a home they just moved into or some such situation. (And that was years ago, before those TAPS, Ghost Hunters, Paranormal State series were on TV.)
We didn't have a Home-how-to-exorsize secotion.
I knew a lady who was a local "psychic". But, she flat out told me "I don't go near demons." When I'd describe what some of the library patrons questions would reveal. All the situations, no matter the persons background, as I described them she said were denomic.
The one that still stands out is a group of young sisters who moved into a rental house with their newly single mother. Their little dog was thrown down the stairs and injured.
Before they moved in some squatters had spray painted denomic symbols in the living room and the landlord repainted and repaired the property so they could move in.
I'm thinking most diocese should have at least one Excorsist in residence and one in training.
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