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Exorcist Interview About Recent Possession
Parish Priest Aids Family in Fight Against Demons In an exclusive National Catholic Register interview, Father Michael Maginot discusses his role in serving as an exorcist to help an Indiana family who...
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What is Evil?
Q. Father Fortea, what is evil? A. Evil is the lack (or privation) of a good that should be present in a thing. For example, blindness is a physical evil because it is the absence of the ability to...
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Will Evil Exist Forever?
Q. Father Fortea, will evil exist forever? A. Yes, in a certain sense. The clear teachings of Sacred Scripture and the Church affirm that both demons and condemned human beings will exist for all...
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Does God Hate the Demons?
Q. Father Fortea, does God hate the demons? A. No. God, being perfect, is Love itself. The created world is God’s act of love, and as part of His creation, demons remain essentially good and loved by...
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Does “Infinite Evil” Exist?
Q. Father Fortea, does “infinite evil” exist? A. No, evil is limited. Evil always exists in a finite being; it does not exist in itself. While an infinite being (i.e., God) can exist, infinite evil...
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What is the Greatest Evil?
Q. Father Fortea, what is the greatest evil? A. According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the greatest evil is sin (CCC 1488). Since God is love and sin leads to the rejection of His love,...
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Is God’s Greatest Creation Lucifer or the Blessed Virgin Mary?
Father Fortea, is God’s greatest creation Lucifer or the Blessed Virgin Mary? A. Before this question can be answered, we have to understand that Lucifer (which means “morning star”) was the angelic...
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How Many of our Temptations Come From Demons?
Father Fortea, how many of our temptations come from demons? A. No one can say what percentage of our temptations comes from demons and what percentage comes from our own weakness. It is true that the...
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Can Demons Tempt us to Pray?
Dear Fr. John, I recently ran across a confusing statement from an ex-satanist, who claims that demons can encourage people to pray as a way of deceiving them. The author of the book I read wrote that...
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Is God Present Even in Hell?
Father Fortea, is God present even in hell? Yes, God is present even in hell. There is no place (or being) in which God is not present. God, the Creator of all things, maintains everything in existence...
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Why Does Hell Need to be Eternal?
Father Fortea, why does hell need to be eternal? Repentance can be born only of grace. If God does not send grace to a spirit, making it understand the perpetrated evil, then there can be no...
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Why does God Not Just Annihilate the Demons?
Father Fortea, why does God not just annihilate the demons? God, in His great love, has pledged not to destroy any intelligent being He has created. Demons, by their very existence, are a manifestation...
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Why does Sacred Scripture Say that Demons are in the “Regions of the Air”?
Father Fortea, why does Sacred Scripture say that demons are in the “regions of the air”? Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we are not...
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When the Bible says Some Demons are in Hell, does it Mean they’re Not on Earth?
Father Fortea, when the Bible says that some demons are in hell, does this mean that they are not on earth tempting us? This is probably the case. What also seems to be the case is that there is no...
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When Jesus was on Earth, did the Demons know Jesus was the Messiah?
Father Fortea, when Jesus was on earth, did the demons know He was the Messiah? As we have said, demons do not know everything. They do not even know all that happens in this world; they are among us,...
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Exorcists Weigh in on Reported Possessions in Mexico (Video)
Two American Exorcists Weigh in on Reported Mexican Possessions There is one place where not even the most adventurous thrill seeker should tread: into the occult. Every exorcist will attest that even...
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Why does Satan Appear More Frequently in the New Testament than in the Old?
Father Fortea, why does Satan appear more frequently in the New Testament than in the Old? The term Satan appears eighteen times in the Old Testament and thirty-five in the New. The devil can be found...
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Is there Significance to the Order of the Three Temptations of Jesus in the...
Father Fortea, what order do the three temptations of Jesus in the desert follow? Is there any significance to this order? In the synoptic gospels, we see how the devil tempted Jesus in the wilderness...
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Spiritual Warfare – Book Picks
Because we are quickly rolling up on Halloween and the time of year when our culture is focused on the world of the spirits, I thought it would be fitting to turn our hearts to something holy and good...
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