BTW, no one is simply trying to be a "detractor" of Father Ripperger.  I generally like him and have supported him, but something has always struck me as a bit off with regard to his demonology approach.

1) his implication that demons are responsible for every sin and every evil (even for hiccups?).  Many sins are simply the result of our own choices and our own weakess, combined with temptations from the world.  We don't have to blame some generational spriit introduced by our great-great-grandparents for our own sins and failings.  Father even speaks about how demons cause us financial problems ... rather than perhaps our own poor decisions.  Even if they did, it's only because God permits it, and He has a higher purpose for whatever financial problems we face.

2) this excessive detail about specific demons that do specific things, his telling people to appeal to Our Lady of Sorrows to discover which demons are afflicting us, suggesting that if we address them by name, then somehow our prayers our more "powerful" ... as if we can't simply ask Our Lady to handle ANY such demons for us, whatever they might be.  This smacks a bit of superstition.

3) mention of how he tries to interrogate demons during exorcisms (which I always thought had been forbidden)

All of this leads to a very unhealthy curiosity about and engagement with demonic forces that is incredibly dangerous that could actually lure people into engaging with these forces.  Dimond Brothers make some good points about why the demons do things like hauntings and poltergeist types of activities.  It's because they're luring people in to attempt to engage with the demonic spirit, which then in turn opens the door for the demons to inject themselves more directly into their lives.

It just takes one small mis-step in citing these deliverance prayers, where you're directly addressing demons, to slip up and invite them in to more direct engagement.

We go to God, Our Lord, Our Blessed Mother, St. Michael and our Guardian Angels.

Oh, by the way, speaking of our authority over our wives and our children.  I have actually leverged this authority in prayer while addressing my guardian angel and the guardian angels of my wife and my children.  I "command" / "bid" THEM by the authority I have over them to keep the demonic forces away.  I bid my guardian angel to work with the others to remind them of my authority, which is the authority of God, and to enforce that authority against the demons.  THIS is a correct leveraging of authority, since the angels DO in fact recognize that our authority is God's and will infallibly obey such commands, not because of ourselves, but because of God's authority that He has communicated to us.  Meanwhile, the entire reason that Satan and the other devils are demand is because they REFUSED to submit to God.  So by themselves, they're not particularly inclined to respect the God-given auhority we have over our wives and chldren.  It's only because God FORCES them to obey that they obey at all.  And so we need to ask God and Our Lady and the angels to enforce this authority.

We see even in exorcisms where the Church's authority is being applied that the demons do not always respond, and at least do not respond immediately.  Exorcisms often drag on for long periods of time.  Otherwise, why wouldn't they obey immediately?  So if they do not comply with the Church's very autority, why would they comply with my lesser authority over my wife and my children.  Even in exorcisms, their immediate response might be to escalate the situation and increase the attacks.  As an exorcist, Father Ripperger really should know that.  There's the story where Our Lord's disciples could not cast out demons, despite attempting to exorcise them in His Name.  Our Lord attributed this to 1) lack of faith and 2) that some types of demons (an interesting question) can only be cast out through fasting.  Why is that if just a simple exertion of authority suffices?  We could add fasting to our prayers to Our Lord and Our Lady in this regard.

There's just way too much that's problematic with Father Ripperger's approach.  I'd prefer to speak to my Guardian Angel, to my family's Guardian Angelts, to St. Michael, and above all to Our Blessed Mother, the Terror of Demons ... than to be constantly thinking about and talking to demons.

http://www.catholictradition.org/Classics/abandonment10.htm

Not all temptations come from the demon. "Everyone is tempted by his own concupiscence, which draws and seduces him" (James, i, 14), and this evil fire is fanned into flame by the scandals of the perverse and imperfect. The majority of men expose themselves to peril of their own free choice, or they precipitate one another into it. The demon has little more to do than to fold his arms and watch them performing his bad work for him; but he labours unceasingly for the ruin of souls that belong to him no longer.
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Each [demon], however, has a chain to its neck, and God leads them about as He pleases. Against His good-pleasure, they are powerlessness itself. He allows them no liberty to tempt, or He leaves them some latitude, more or less, as He judges fit, with regard to what persons He pleases, in the manner and for the time that He considers best. So the choice of the temptation, the time, the degree of its violence, and the period of its duration: all are in the hands of God, our Father, our Saviour, our Sanctifier. This surely ought to encourage us. With the assistance of grace, we can prevent many temptations, we can repel the fiercest attacks of the enemy, and we can never fall save by our own full and free consent. The demon may bark at us, threaten us, entice us; but he can only bite those that want to be bitten. But, alas! we have in our free will the awful power of yielding in spite of grace, of neglecting to solicit the help of grace, and even of exposing ourselves to temptation. And this is what should keep us in perpetual self-distrust. In last analysis, therefore, the danger lies in ourselves. We are ourselves the enemy we have most cause to fear.
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The pious Bishop of Geneva [St. Francis de Sales] addressed St. Jane de Chantal in very similar terms: "... You shouldn't mistake the rustling of the leaves for the rattling of arms. Our enemy is a mighty blusterer. But don't let him frighten you. He has raised many an uproar and many a tumult around the Saints; but for all that, you see how they now occupy the place which he, miserable one, has lost forever. Let us pay no heed, then, to his fanfares, for he can do us no harm. That is why he wishes at least to terrify us, and by this terror to disturb our peace, and by this disturbance to weary us, and by this weariness to make us give up. Let us have no fear but of God, and even of Him only a loving fear. Let us keep the gates securely closed, and the walls of our resolutions in good repair, and then let us live in peace."

So Traditonal sources encourage us to put our confidence and trust in God, knowing that the demonic forces have only the power over us that God allows.  They speak of how the demons can create a lot of noise and bluster ... but cannot touch us apart from God's will, as of course Our Lord has removed the bond of Satan over us by virtue of our Baptism, but the saints advice that we "pay no heed, then, to [their] fanfares, for [they] can do us no harm."

But instead, Father Ripperger encourages us to pay meticulous heed to how the devils might be attacking us, which ones, how, etc.  In the one analogy, the demon is likened to a dog on a leash that's barking at us but cannot bite (because he's on God's leash) ... unless we go up to it and start messing with it.  And isn't this precisely the attitude of Father Ripperger?  Hey, let's go up to the barking dog and start trying to confront it.  Isn't THAT when you become susceptible to being bitten?  Instead of paying no attention to the barking by the demon, according to Father Ripperger, we're supposed to listen closely to the barking and attempt to decipher its meaning and intent and see how we can get the dog to quiet down?

This is all incredibly dangerous, and the Catholic approach should be to ask God, Our Lady, St. Michael, and the saints for their protection, and to remain focused on THEM rather than on the demons.  As per St. Francis de Sales, we retain our peace by simply closing off the gates and turning inward toward God, and ignoring the bluster, the noise, and the barking outside.  We should not, as Father Ripperger counsels, go to the door, start addressing the demons outside, and even potentially open a window or a door for them to get in.

Father Ripperger's book should be put on the Index and should be avoided by all Catholics.  It pains me to say it, because I generally like Father Ripperger, but his talks and his books are potentially very harmful.

Does he list citations; book and page numbers?

If he lists St. Thomas and St. Alphonsus, what is the citation?

Where is the proof that deliverance prayers have a history of use by the laity?

I've seen no proof for any of this.

BTW, no one is simply trying to be a "detractor" of Father Ripperger.  I generally like him and have supported him, but something has always struck me as a bit off with regard to his demonology approach.

1)/ his implication that demons are responsible for every sin and every evil (even for hiccups?).  Many sins are simply the result of our own choices and our own weakess, combined with temptations from the world.  We don't have to blame some generational spriit introduced by our great-great-grandparents for our own sins and failings.  Father even speaks about how demons cause us financial problems ... rather than perhaps our own poor decisions.  Even if they did, it's only because God permits it, and He has a higher purpose for whatever financial problems we face.

2) this excessive detail about specific demons that do specific things, his telling people to appeal to Our Lady of Sorrows to discover which demons are afflicting us, suggesting that if we address them by name, then somehow our prayers our more "powerful" ... as if we can't simply ask Our Lady to handle ANY such demons for us, whatever they might be.  This smacks a bit of superstition.

3) mention of how he tries to interrogate demons during exorcisms (which I always thought had been forbidden)

All of this leads to a very unhealthy curiosity about and engagement with demonic forces that is incredibly dangerous that could actually lure people into engaging with these forces.  Dimond Brothers make some good points about why the demons do things like hauntings and poltergeist types of activities.  It's because they're luring people in to attempt to engage with the demonic spirit, which then in turn opens the door for the demons to inject themselves more directly into their lives.

It just takes one small mis-step in citing these deliverance prayers, where you're directly addressing demons, to slip up and invite them in to more direct engagement.

We go to God, Our Lord, Our Blessed Mother, St. Michael and our Guardian Angels.

Oh, by the way, speaking of our authority over our wives and our children.  I have actually leverged this authority in prayer while addressing my guardian angel and the guardian angels of my wife and my children.  I "command" / "bid" THEM by the authority I have over them to keep the demonic forces away.  I bid my guardian angel to work with the others to remind them of my authority, which is the authority of God, and to enforce that authority against the demons.  THIS is a correct leveraging of authority, since the angels DO in fact recognize that our authority is God's and will infallibly obey such commands, not because of ourselves, but because of God's authority that He has communicated to us.  Meanwhile, the entire reason that Satan and the other devils are demand is because they REFUSED to submit to God.  So by themselves, they're not particularly inclined to respect the God-given auhority we have over our wives and chldren.  It's only because God FORCES them to obey that they obey at all.  And so we need to ask God and Our Lady and the angels to enforce this authority.

We see even in exorcisms where the Church's authority is being applied that the demons do not always respond, and at least do not respond immediately.  Exorcisms often drag on for long periods of time.  Otherwise, why wouldn't they obey immediately?  So if they do not comply with the Church's very autority, why would they comply with my lesser authority over my wife and my children.  Even in exorcisms, their immediate response might be to escalate the situation and increase the attacks.  As an exorcist, Father Ripperger really should know that.  There's the story where Our Lord's disciples could not cast out demons, despite attempting to exorcise them in His Name.  Our Lord attributed this to 1) lack of faith and 2) that some types of demons (an interesting question) can only be cast out through fasting.  Why is that if just a simple exertion of authority suffices?  We could add fasting to our prayers to Our Lord and Our Lady in this regard.

There's just way too much that's problematic with Father Ripperger's approach.  I'd prefer to speak to my Guardian Angel, to my family's Guardian Angelts, to St. Michael, and above all to Our Blessed Mother, the Terror of Demons ... than to be constantly thinking about and talking to demons.

Laus, you persist in spewing false accusations one after another and even repeating them at times.

You are either doing it out of ignorance or denial. I'm not using ignorance in a derogatory sense but rather in the sense that you have not read what Fr Ripperger actually says. The part of your post I bolded is an example. He states the opposite in Dominion, giving many examples. And you would be in denial if you have read Dominion and refused to concede your gut feelings are dead wrong.

Once again you are voicing your opinion of the prayers in question based on your gut feelings and emotions. Fr Ripperger doesn't go by his feelings and emotions. Actually that is one of his criticisms of the NO modernists. He is an orthodox theologian who also happens to be proficient in psychology. His works/writing are conclusions, not opinions. He has spent years researching and reading books he has access to that you and I don't even realize exist.

As an exorcist he offers catechesis on spiritual warfare that laity aren't used to. And when we hear such it's easy to question it. I have acknowledged more than once on this thread that is certainly understandable. Nevertheless he backs up everything he offers with citations galore. And I cannot keep posting extensive text of his book Dominion without flirting with copyright issues.

If you want to understand why he concludes what he does, acquire a copy of Dominion. If you have no intention of doing that go ahead and persist in erroneous claims about this priest. I can't control that but honestly, you can save your keystrokes for someone else moving forward because I'm done with it. Frankly, if it's your way or no way, no way is fine with me.

Pax

Never mind Ripperger's quotation of scripture.

Where is the quotation of other authorities giving such an explanation?

Not "he said, she said", but quoting works and page numbers of past authorities expounding on this?

Not paraphrasing words either, but actually sources?

St Alphonsus : Ripperger cites from Theologia Moralis

Aquinas : the Summa and Thomae Aquinatis Opera Omnia 

Many others.

Page numbers and such are there but often are on previous pages before his conclusion. It will take some time to get the exact page numbers cited as far as the ones specific to the actual Adjuration prayers. As far as quotes from the sources that use the word binding I don't see one yet. I'm just flipping through the chapter on Structure of Authority so far. I can see he's very precise in explaining whom laity have authority to use these prayers for though. Namely ourselves and immediate family. And never publicly in assemblies as some Protestants do.
 

None of those screenshots has any bearing whatsoever on the question at hand.  He's merely citing St. Thomas explaining that angels and demons are spiritual and immaterial beings.  What does that have to do with the laity performing exorcisms by casting out demons and directly addressing them?

It has nothing to do with Laity performing exorcisms. And to assert Fr Ripperger encourages Laity to do so is a blatant lie. You may convince those who happen to check out this thread and have never actually held one of his books in their hands or watched any of his talks on video. But those of us who have actually heard him speak and read what he writes on the topic know better.

Who do you think you are pleasing with these false accusations ? Our Lord or Satan ?

Having read Dominion, I continue to work through "The Introduction to the Science of Mental Health." Much to digest but definitely worth it.