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Ignatius Insight Scoop: Oregon bishop warns against ignoring the activity of Satan

Carl Olson posts a link to an article by Bishop Robert Vasa of the Diocese of Baker, OR which H.E. posted in The Catholic Sentinel . Here is a part of Bishop Vasa's article: ...It is certainly important that we not become excessively consumed or obsessed by the presence and activity of the evil one but it is also most important that we not be oblivious to his presence or activity, for it is real. All one needs to do is look at the state of moral confusion which reigns in our present society. The killing of the sick or elderly because they want it is being promoted as some kind of right or good but this can be so only in the topsy-turvy world of Screwtape and Wormwood. When taking the life of an innocent pre-born child is seen as right and a right and when the preservation of precisely that right becomes the object of a political campaign, I suspect the letter from Screwtape to the demon master of that campaign would be filled with praise. When a whole society begins to questi...