Vatican Courses on Satanism

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By Uwe Siemon-Netto UPI Religious Affairs Editor PARIS, France, Jan. 11 (UPI)

Satanism is growing so quickly worldwide that as of next month a papal university in Rome will offer courses on this frightening phenomenon. According to Vatican sources, divinity students at the pontifical Regina Apostolorum (Queen of the Apostles) University will learn about devil worship, witchcraft, demonology and exorcism. They will

learn to give pastoral care to youngsters who have joined satanic cults, but also their worried parents, a Vatican prelate told United Press International by telephone Tuesday. Type the word, "Satanism," into the Google search engine, and some 461,000 hits will appear on your computer's monitor. That's more than the terms, "Lutheranism" and "Calvinism," the two oldest Protestant traditions, will produce - together. The U.S.-based "Church of Satan," which has about 10,000 members, shows up 56,000 times on Google, compared with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's measly 15,000 hits, even though the ELCA counts nearly 5 million faithful.

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Neuendettelsau, Bavaria. On the other hand, the figures certainly do show one thing: In a global society dominated by the Internet, the devil and the occult garner a considerably greater interest right now than Lutheran or Calvinist theologies -- or Methodism, for that matter (245,000 hits). It is the Internet that, along with "black

metal"-type rock music and its chilling lyrics, attracts the world's young to the Prince of Darkness.

What makes them such easy prey?

Loneliness, according to Italian professor Carlo Climati, who will teach the course at Regina Apostolorum -- the loneliness of the juvenile Internet surfer. Thus while the "Church of Satan," which

advertises itself as a mix of hedonistic philosophy with the rituals of black magic, claims to liberate its adherents (from traditional stuffiness), Satanism really does not cater to a thirst for freedom, says the Rev. Herzog. "Instead, it aims at a desire for dependency

and thus enslaves," he goes on. It is hard to argue with Herzog on this point since many Satanism Web sites are directly linked to

others featuring bondage, discipline, sadomasochism and violent death, including photographs of aborted embryos in garbage cans. A cursory glance of gruesome incidents linked to Satanism worldwide proves that this is the true locus of the "culture of death" Pope John Paul II never ceases to denounce. In recent years, these things occurred, for example: -- In Trier, Germany, birthplace of Karl Marx, the prosecutor's office has been investigating the claim of a woman that babies were being cut up and eaten in Satanist rituals. -- In Finland a youthful pair was jailed for eating part of a fellow devil worshiper's body, abusing it sexually, then cutting it into small pieces, all to the tunes of Black Metal music - and all in a Satanist ritual. -- In Brisbane, Australia, two young sadistic lesbians were sentenced for stabbing and slashing the throat of a 59-year old New Zealand grandmother - in a Satanist ritual. -- In Athens, young Satanists were sentenced for stripping, cuffing, raping and slaughtering a 15-year old girl in a Satanist

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initiation scene. -- In Buenos Aires, Argentina, two young women were found guilty of killing their father and stabbing him in the face 100 times - in a Satanist family event of sorts.

-- In Donskoi, Russia, Satanists led by 80-year old Yelena Kuzina and including members as young as 20 were jailed for murders – committed in occult rituals. -- Only recently in a forest near Milan, Italy, youngsters danced on the graves of two coreligionists they had just killed - in a Satanist ritual murder. These examples can be continued at infinitum. "This phenomenon," a Catholic exorcist told United Press International some time ago, "is a growth industry for the pastoral care business, if only there were enough ministers prepared to deal with this situation - and to read the alarm signal when young people suddenly act strangely, walk around in black gear with chains and spikes, and hide their faces under grisly black makeup. "Don't think this is in all cases just a

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form of entertainment," he warned. "It can be a sign of enslavement to a growing lethal faith."

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