Exclusive: Interview with Rome chief exorcist Fr. Gabriele Amorth
Dec 30, 2015
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/exclusive-interview-with-rome-chief-exorcist-fr.-gabriele-amorth
Editor's note: The following is an interview published in the October issue of Faithful Insight magazine, LifeSite's new full color magazine for Catholic readers. Catholic readers may subscribe to receive the magazine at FaithfulInsight.com. Fr. Amorth, 90, the chief exorcist of Rome, author of An Exorcist Tells His Story and An Exorcist: More Stories, and the person who founded and led the International Association of Exorcists, has performed hundreds of exorcisms in his over 30 years in that capacity. Fr. Amorth here addresses the Synod on the Family among other issues.
December 30, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) - It is only a year and a half to the anniversary of the first hundred years of the apparitions of Our Lady at Fatima. Our Lady here made explicit reference to the evils that would come from Russia, were it not to be consecrated to her Immaculate Heart. Since then, maybe with some delay, various consecrations have been actually carried out - of Russia and the world - several times and by different Popes. Solemn among them, that of 25 March 1984, led by John Paul II, with all the world's bishops.
But Father Gabriele Amorth, 90, known as the dean of the exorcists, as well as a prolific author, does not believe that what was requested by the Blessed Virgin has, in fact, been fulfilled. He asserts in fact that,
"the Consecration has not yet been made. I was there on March 25 in St. Peter's Square, I was in the front row, practically within touching distance of the Holy Father. John Paul II wanted to consecrate Russia, but his entourage did not, fearing that the Orthodox would be antagonized, and they almost almost thwarted him. Therefore, when His Holiness consecrated the world on his knees, he added a sentence not included in the distributed version that instead said to consecrate "especially those nations of which you yourself have asked for their consecration." So, indirectly, this included Russia. However, a specific consecration has not yet been made. You can always do it. Indeed, it will certainly be done ... ".
LifeSite: Our Lady had foretold at Fatima the blood of martyrs, if penance were not done. The blood of the martyrs has begun to flow copiously: how long will it be before God sends His punishment?
Fr. Amorth: "Look, today there are more martyrs than during the first centuries of Christianity. Just think of the Middle East, where so many Christians are killed simply because they are Christian. There is a huge amount of martyrs! But let us not forget what our Lady said: "In the end my Immaculate Heart will triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me, which will be converted and the world will be granted a period of peace "... Soon we will have great happenings."
?LifeSite: When?
Fr. Amorth: "It is hard to give details of what you do not live. I'm not a prophet. At one time, Israel pulled away from God to embrace idolatry. Prophets were treated very badly. Finally God punished. Today the world does not turn from God because it is idolatrous; rather it pursues pure atheism, so as to put science on the altar. But science does not create; it only discovers that which God has made. In turning away from the Lord, its breakthroughs are put to disastrous use. Without the Lord, progress too is misused. We see it in laws that go totally against nature such as divorce, abortion, 'gay marriage' ... we have forgotten God! Therefore, God will soon admonish humanity in a very powerful manner, He knows how to remind us of His presence."
?LifeSite: There are rumors that you had recently indicated a period of eight months, maybe less ... But, as I understand it, there is not a precise time...
Fr. Amorth: "I think it is early. I think we are close. More and more so. The Lord will make Himself heard, and the world will respond. I look at all this with optimism, because God always acts for us to obtain a greater good than the punishments inflicted, which are meant to open the eyes of humanity, which has forgotten and abandoned him. I always remember the rhyme of Metastasio: "Wherever I look, / immense God, I see: /in Your works I admire you, / I recognize You in myself." We should always seek the Lord, we can not forget the origin, the First Cause, as unfortunately happens today ... I was with Padre Pio for 26 years and remember how furious he was about the invention of television: "You will see what it will do!" he said. It has also allowed good things. But I'm very much in the midst of people and see how many people have been ruined by television and the Internet. "
?LifeSite: You spoke about the laws against nature, of divorce, of gay unions, ... These are the themes of the two Synods on the Family, the Extraordinary held last year and the next one, the Ordinary. Do you believe that these issues have been adequately addressed, or should they be addressed from another perspective at the next meeting in October?
Fr. Amorth: "Certainly it pleases me that the Pope has called the Synod on the Family. But you have to aim to the united family. Divorce has been a disaster; abortion has been a disaster. Each year 50 million children are murdered by abortion. And euthanasia, the broken family, cohabitation ... It is all destruction! The Lord gave us sex for a purpose and He also declared: "May no man divide what God has joined." One thing is sexual fun; another is love. Today there is much talk of love, but there truly is none! Precisely in Fatima did Our Lady say to the young, seven-year old, Jacinta: "the sin that brings the most souls to hell is the impure sin," the sin of the flesh. She said this to a young girl, who did not even know what it was! We must listen to that which Our Lady says."
Words, that in any case indicate as reasonable a single stance: conversion, penance, prayer.
Wow! The following exchange just blew my mind. It looks like everything is pointing towards the one hundredth anniversary of Fatima. Am I the only one here that has started to make some major changes in preparation.
Fr. Amorth: But let us not forget what our Lady said: "In the end my Immaculate Heart will triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me, which will be converted and the world will be granted a period of peace "... Soon we will have great happenings."
LifeSite:When?
Fr. Amorth: "It is hard to give details of what you do not live. I'm not a prophet...God will soon admonish humanity in a very powerful manner, He knows how to remind us of His presence."
?LifeSite: There are rumors that you had recently indicated a period of eight months, maybe less ... But, as I understand it, there is not a precise time...
Fr. Amorth: "I think it is early. I think we are close. More and more so. The Lord will make Himself heard, and the world will respond.
Quote from: TheWhiteShadow on December 30, 2015, 10:25:09 PM
Am I the only one here that has started to make some major changes in preparation.
Nope. Last year Father Gruner (RIP) of the Fatima Center said that he had spoken to Father Amorth in Rome, who told him that he figured something may happen in about eight months; that was eight months before the October Synod. I imagine that is why LifeSiteNews interviewed Father Amorth in October. Father Amorth says "God will soon admonish humanity". But also note that Father Amorth, quoting Our Lady of Fatima said "The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me". Hmm ... things will have to change pretty quickly if that Holy Father that consecrates Russia is not Pope Francis. I posted a video with Father Gruner and Chris Ferrara just after Pope Francis was elected, where Father Gruner said that he had received two letters from the Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Jorge Bergoglio in reply to some Fatima information that the Fatima Center had sent to all the bishops (which I have been taking flak from one member of this forum ever since). On top of this Father Paul Kramer talked about this Italian stigmatist, Antonio Ruffini who said the next pope after Pope Benedict will do a proper consecration of Russia. So no matter what you think about Pope Francis I think we still need to pray for him and pray that he does a proper consecration of Russia.
I agree. If Pius IX could change after his election, along with so many miraculous conversions over the years including my own 8),then why couldn't he?
Was Pius IX ever a liberal (if that is what you meant, as most do, when you said he changed)? I hear this repeated a lot on the internet, but what made him a liberal pontiff?
I greatly respect Father Amorth and believe he is a holy priest, but as he himself said, he is not a prophet. Therefore, I doubt this Pope of all popes will consecrate Russia to Our Lady's Immaculate Heart. However, miracles do happen.
Quote from: Hiero of Syracuse on January 01, 2016, 07:23:07 PM
Was Pius IX ever a liberal (if that is what you meant, as most do, when you said he changed)? I hear this repeated a lot on the internet, but what made him a liberal pontiff?
It was before he became the pontiff, when he was the Archbishop of Spoleto.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12134b.htm
QuoteHis great charity and amiability had made him beloved by the people, while his friendship with some of the revolutionists had gained for him the name of liberal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Pius_IX
QuotePope Leo XII appointed Father Mastai-Ferretti Archbishop of Spoleto in 1827 at the age of 35.[10] In 1831, the abortive revolution that had begun in Parma and Modena spread to Spoleto; the Archbishop obtained a general pardon after it was suppressed, gaining him a reputation for being liberal. ... According to historians, Cardinal Mastai-Ferretti was considered a liberal during his episcopate in Spoleto and Imola because he supported administrative changes in the Papal States and sympathized with the nationalist movement in Italy.
Quote from: Antoninus on January 01, 2016, 11:06:48 PM
I greatly respect Father Amorth and believe he is a holy priest, but as he himself said, he is not a prophet. Therefore, I doubt this Pope of all popes will consecrate Russia to Our Lady's Immaculate Heart. However, miracles do happen.
Yes, miracles do happen. A different sort of miracle might be (just speculating here) that Father Kramer is correct and that Benedict is actually Pope, and he, not Francis will be the one to do the Consecration. Also possible that one of the two Popes is killed by Moslems invading Rome from the north, and the "extra" Pope is the one who does the Consecration.