And the Broadway Show Tunes, the endless Musicals, reruns of Glee with a hint of Febreze.

“I adjure thee, unclean spirit, in the name of the Father and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost to depart and remain far away from this servant of God… And so, accursed spirit, give heed to the sentence passed upon thee. Give honor to the living and true God, give honor to Jesus Christ His Son, and to the Holy Ghost… And this sign of the Holy Cross, which we put upon his (her) forehead, do thou, foul spirit, never dare to violate.”

....

“I adjure you, each and every unclean spirit, in the name of God the Father almighty, in the name of Jesus Christ His Son, our Lord and our Judge, and by the power of the Holy Spirit, to be gone from this image of God N., whom our Lord in His goodness has called to be
His holy temple that he (she) himself (herself) may become a temple of the living God, and the Holy Ghost may dwell in him (her).”

Carter had been a Governor. Barack had voted present in the Illinois State legislature.

The book Interview with an Exorcist is very well done, and someone has put together a quick video. The book is here. The movie The Rite is ridiculous but the book by Matt Baglio is very good, too.

Christ was the most excellent exorcist, wasn't he?

I was just at an Extraordinary Form baptism this weekend and there were several prayers of exorcism during the baptismal rite.

Homophobia?  Really?

But under Obamacare won't it be more difficult to buy the medication required to treat this tragic affliction? Already I'm breaking out in hives and feel so sleepy...

And, of course, the next step after Augustine was St. Benedict and the "Dark Ages".

Could never happen. Could. Never. Happen. Do you hear me? Never.

The Romans made the same argument against the Catholics of Augustine's day. Catholics are still here. The Romans? Not so much.

Variety is the spice of life.

In a few weeks I will be reading a book that Pope Francis has read: Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson. I recommend the Baronius Press edition:

Lord of the World was described by no less an authority than Fulton Sheen as one of the three greatest depictions of the advent of the demonic in modern literature – the others being The Brothers Karamazov and Solovyov’s Three Coversations. In some respects Lord of the World represents a departure for Benson, whose religious novels are almost evenly divided between historical and contemporary studies: Lord of the World is a futuristic fantasy—but it is science fiction with a twist, for it is about the coming of Antichrist.

The novel is set in the twenty-first century, mostly in England. The West has succumbed to a sort of international socialism. The forces of secular materialism, relativism and state control are everywhere triumphant. ....Euthanasia has become an instrument of the state, Esperanto the universal second language. Nevertheless, although organised religion has largely collapsed in the face of institutional secularism, a vague, humanistic religiosity—militantly hostile to the exclusive and supernatural claims of the Church—is everywhere present.

Nothing to see here.

Reform of the tax code, embassy defense and holding anyone in any branch of the US government accountable for anything is way above President Dunsel's empty chair presidency pay grade and I wish you all would stop talking about it because if you don't you're raaaaaaaaaaaacist.

On behalf of Canada:

"You're welcome. I think."

They do seem to eat a big bowl of Campbell's Cream of Moron Soup before they go on a big Gee-Had.

"I saw the IRS fall like lighting from heaven."

It's rather refreshing, in a dismal kind of way, when our enemies lay their cards on the table.

Are they allowed to play cards? Perhaps only if it doesn't refer to the profit?

Reduce, Recycle, Riot.