Exorcists warn of rise in demonic activity following Indigenous rituals
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With exorcists now starting to see harmful results in children,
perhaps parents will begin to demand more from their schools.
Although elements of paganism have been creeping into various
parishes and dioceses for some time, the blatant idolatry on
display during the 2019 Amazon Synod really opened the
floodgates. Since that time, faithful Catholics in the West have
been inundated by indigenous emblems, prayers and rituals in
what appears to be an attempt to change the Church's very
identity.
In Australia, that trend is quite evident, and the focus on
Aboriginal culture which is being promoted politically and
in the corporate world, is being mirrored by the Church. When
too much attention is given to another form of spirituality, there
is always a risk that the pre-eminence of the Catholic faith will
be overlooked. However, that is not the extent of the problems
facing an institution that is starting to view pagan ceremonies
as interchangeable with its own rituals.
Many, including Family Life International (FLI), have expressed
concern about the spiritual consequences of participation in
indigenous rituals. Given that a non-Christian ritual, by its very
nature, invokes spirits other than that of the One, True God - that
is, it invokes demons - it seems implausible that there would be
no evidence of spiritual bondage or oppression among its
participants.
FLI sought counsel from that group of experts who sees the
devastation of spiritual warfare on a daily basis: Church-appointed
exorcists. What they revealed confirmed our worst suspicions.
Father John Rizzo, former exorcist of the Diocese of Parramatta,
has had years of experience in delivering unfortunate souls from
demonic attack. In the two weeks before he spoke to FLI, Fr. Rizzo
had been contacted by three families whose children are at two
different schools. Each family wanted his assistance because a child
was exhibiting disturbing symptoms that the parents believe are
linked to indigenous smoking ceremonies.
Fr. Rizzo told Family Life International that he has seen "unpleasant
consequences" from children attending smoking ceremonies.
Children have become irritable after being involved in such
situations. Students at some schools are forced to walk through the
smoke against their will. Their well-informed Catholic conscience
makes them feel uncomfortable! They know that it's wrong!
The priest said that he has been seeing "
a certain moodiness and
a type of fear that is hard to understand." Thankfully, he has found
that minor exorcisms, which can be prayed by any priests, are
proving effective in liberating the children.
"I particularly use the exorcism prayers from the traditional rite
of Baptism," he said. "I recite them in Latin first, and translate
afterwards into English."
The mother of one of the children, Jane, (not her real name) opened
up to FLI about her family's experience:
My son was attending a Catholic school, where smoking ceremonies
were being performed quite frequently. He had also been exposed
to regular smoking ceremonies at the public school that he previously
attended. As time went by, my son's health declined and he began
to suffer from anxiety.
For three years, Jane took her son to visit various medical
professionals who were unable to diagnose his problem. All they
could offer was medication to help with his symptoms - but there
was no cure. Things then escalated to the point where, out of fear,
the boy was unable to sleep.
My son is naturally quiet, and he was at first unable to explain the
reason for his inability to sleep. He eventually told us that about
a week before, he had been visited in the night by a shadowy figure
which screamed at him and pinned him down to the bed. When my
son started to pray, the figure went away.
Although it didn't return, the boy was terrified that it would come
back and asked his mother to pray the Rosary with him in his room
before bed. The whole family was losing sleep by this time, as the
boy was too afraid to be left alone at night.
When Jane's son told her about the sleep paralysis, she feared that
there was a supernatural cause to her son's problems and contacted
Fr. Rizzo. After lengthy questioning, Fr. Rizzo determined that the
boy was suffering from a minor demonic attack. The priest heard the
boy's confession, administered Holy Communion and prayed prayers
of deliverance over the boy. He immediately felt better and that
night had what he described as his best ever night's sleep.
Jane said, "He started to wear his scapular more faithfully and there
is now complete peace in their home."
Another exorcist contacted by FLI also expressed his concerns about
the rituals. Father Michael Shadbolt, exorcist for the Archdiocese
of Melbourne, said that while he hadn't been approached by anyone
needing deliverance after taking part in a smoking ceremony, he is
concerned about their potential for harm.
"Many come to me because they are adversely affected after
involvement in tarot cards and casting spells, and the smoking
ceremonies are akin to this. It is something I worry about," said
Fr. Shadbolt.
These rituals are against the First Commandment and I have doubts
about the consequences of calling on ancestral spirits in rituals
like the smoking ceremony and the Welcome ceremony. It's an open
question and really needs to be investigated.
Fr. Rizzo also believes the rituals violate the First Commandment,
specifically singling out the "Immersion" experiences which are
growing in popularity among Catholic schools. According to
Fr. Rizzo, "It is idolatry!"
"Immersions" involve taking groups of teachers and/or school children
to Aboriginal sacred sites so that the traditional culture and
spirituality can be experienced. Their proponents say that the
function of Immersions is to "feel the deep spirit of the land" and
to "immerse the children's spirits into the land."
Immersions are a feature of the controversial "Fire Carriers"
programme which runs in more than a hundred Catholic schools around
Victoria. "Fire Carriers" was designed to indoctrinate children with
Aboriginal history, culture and spirituality to promote
"Reconciliation," but operates to the detriment of their Christian
formation. Under the guise of promoting racial harmony, it undermines
the Catholic faith while turning children into political and
eco-activists.
According to guidelines given on the Sandhurst Diocese's website,
when a school joins the program, it signs a covenant promising to
respect the Aboriginal people's "spiritual connection to Mother Earth
through the Dreaming" and children are expected to participate in
activities such as "consulting with Aboriginal people to enrich their
spirituality," honoring the "Aboriginal significant days through
prayer" and performing "Aboriginal rituals in Mass and prayer."
All of these activities pose a grave spiritual danger to the children
and teachers participating in them. At the very least, the entire
Aboriginal programme cultivates religious indifferentism by
presenting indigenous spirituality as equal to, or even superior to,
the Catholic faith. But as the concerned priests mentioned here
have pointed out, that is only one of the dangers posed by
involvement in pagan spirituality.
Priests outside Australia are also seeing spiritual fallout after
people have engaged in smoking ceremonies and other pagan
rituals. The Society of the Most Sorrowful Mother, based in the
U.S., is seeing similar results to Fr. Rizzo. The group offers
deliverance, exorcism and other spiritual help in the Archdiocese
of Colorado and is also known as the Dolorans Fathers; the
well-known exorcist, Father Chad Ripperger, is a member of this
group.
In response to a request, a representative of the Society told FLI
that they have come across multiple instances of spiritual harm
resulting from smoking ceremonies and other rituals used by the
indigenous people of the United States as well as from those
of other cultures. The identical experiences of exorcists across two
continents is not surprising, since the smoking ceremony performs
a similar function in many indigenous religions, as well as in
witchcraft. Its role is to clear an area of "negative spirits" or
"negative energy," and "good" spirits are frequently invoked in
the same ritual.
One commentator describes smoking ceremonies as "formal acts
of superstition." Louis Knuffke writes that "to attempt to
spiritually "purify" a person or place outside the order of grace
established by Christ and His Church in the sacraments and sacred
rites of Catholicism, constitutes not only the sin of superstition"
but when performed in a consecrated church, "would also entail
grave sacrilege
"
It is scandalous that these rituals are becoming commonplace in
Catholic schools and it points to the impoverished formation of
both children and adults. Aboriginal spirituality, or indeed, any
alternative philosophy becomes attractive in the absence of the
true religion which Catholic schools are meant to be teaching.
While some parents may not care, there are many parents who simply
don't realize that their children are being exposed to ongoing
syncretism and indoctrination within the Catholic school system.
With exorcists now starting to see harmful results in children,
perhaps parents will begin to demand more from their schools.
We must wonder what it will take for our bishops to at last be
convinced that the corrupted inculturation being implemented is
a dangerous spiritual experiment that never should have been adopted
by the Catholic Church.
