The Darkness is Spreading
Taken from Yahoo News...
Doctors, Priests Form Exorcism Commission
Fri Feb 13, 8:09 AM ET
ROME (Reuters) - Faced with growing demand for exorcisms, Catholic Church leaders in the Italian city of Genoa have created a taskforce of doctors and priests to determine when the devil is at work and when psychiatric help is needed.
The team of three priests, one psychiatrist, one psychologist and one neurologist -- dubbed the "anti-Satan pool" by Italian media -- will work on a case-by-case basis, a local church official said in a telephone interview on Thursday.
"They'll meet on a regular basis to determine when there has been a case of demonic possession and call for an exorcist, or problems better cared for by a psychologist," said the official, who asked not to be named.
Presumably, before the demand for exorcisms increased, they didn't need the task force and could determine how many exorcisms were real and how many were just medical problems. I understand it's a lot of work, and highly stressful.
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