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John M. Grondelski
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Diane Montagna
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David Warren
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Stephen P. White
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H.W. Crocker III
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Playing with Satanism
James Martin SJ, America
Friday, July 31, 2015
In my life as a Jesuit priest, I have seen people struggling with real-life evil. In the Spiritual Exercises, his classic manual on prayer, St. Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits, calls this force the “evil spirit” or “the enemy of human nature.” Sophisticated readers may smile at this, but this is a real force, as real as the force that draws one to God.