Church confirms that demons are running loose in Mexico, prompting a radical exorcism

The high level of violence and crime in Mexico, as well as the government corruption and ability of drug cartels to run portions of the country with immunity have led some senior officials in the Catholic Church to fear that the country is totally at the mercy of demons.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - So serious does the Church take this issue in the anarchy run country that there has been a call for a nation-wide exorcism which was carried out on May 20, at the cathedral of San Luis Potosi.

This "Exorcismo Magno" was carried out by Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iniguez, the archbishop emeritus of Guadalajara. In attendance was Archbishop Jesus Carlos Cabrero of San Luis Potosi, Spanish demonologist and excorcist Father Jose Antonio Frotea, and several priests and lay persons.

How could such a religiously devout country like Mexico require such an exorcism? As "sin increases more and mor ein a country, to that extent it become easier for the demons to tempt" people," said Father Frotea in an interview with CNA.

He also said that "there is more witchcraft and Satanism going on in [Mexico], to that extent there will be more extraordinary manifestations of those powers of darkness."

Fortea continued to say that the "exorcism performed in San Luis Potosi is the first ever carried out in Mexico in which the exorcists came from different parts of the country and gathered to exorcise the powers of darkness, not from a person, but the whole country.

"This right of exorcism, beautiful and liturgical, had never before taken place in any part of the world," he said, though warning that this exorcism will not be enough to change the corrupt and brutal reality in Mexico in one day.

"It would be a big mistake to think that by performing a full scale exorcism of the country everything would automatically change right away.

"We don't drive out all the evil spirits from a country with just one ceremony. But even though all will not be expelled, those that were removed are not there anymore," he said. "When exorcists of a country drive out its demons, it has to be done in faith. You're not going to see anything, feel anything, there's not going to be any extraordinary phenomenon. We have to have faith that God conferred on the apostles power, and that we can use this power."

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