ROME (ChurchMilitant.com) – The International Association of Catholic Exorcists (IEA) affirmed on Thursday that the existence of Satan as “a real and personal being is a truth of Christian doctrine.”
The IEA’s affirmation came just days after remarks by Superior General of the Society of Jesus Fr. Arturo Sosa Abascal who declared the “devil exists only as symbolic reality.”
“We have formed symbolic figures such as the devil to express evil,” said Sosa. “Social conditioning can also represent this figure, since there are people who act [in an evil way] because they are in an environment where it is difficult to act to the contrary.”
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