I love fr Ripperger he saved my life. I’d had never heard a lecture on virtues until I came across his work on YouTube. I’m sure trads will trash him but he’s out there doing Gods work and saving protesters from the abyss. No trads are out there reaching lost souls. They are too busy arguing about the shape of the earth and the way mass is conducted. He’s meeting people where the rubber hits the road saving saving people who otherwise wouldn’t know what traditional catholic even means.
Stop being a snowflake because you have some emotional attachment to him. What he teaches people about Deliverance is crap ... has no foundation whatsoever in Tradition, and it's incredibly dangerous if he's wrong. If he's not wrong, he just got lucky, but there's no validation for his core assertion that laity are permitted to issue commands to demons if the demons are afflicting someone who's under their authority. None. But it's a huge gamble to play this game, and there's a reason the Church has never encouraged it. In fact, if you're not a sedevacantist, and Ripperger is not, Ratzinger, when he was purportedly head of the Holy Office, actually condemned the practice. So why's Ripperger not obeying Ratzinger?
That's one of the main reasons that even priests should only attempt Exorcisms on authority of their bishops, because the moment an Exorcist, even one who's a priest, starts to get cocky and act like HE is "doing battle" with Satan, that enrages Satan that this bag of puss-filled meat has the temerity to think he can do battle with Satan, and were it not for God preventing it, would shred the individual to pieces. But if the priest is merely acting as a delegate for Church authority, then no such dynamic can enter in to the picture where it's a battle of their wills or his holiness vs. the devil's evil, or other crap like that which Hollywood attempts to promote.
So none of your emotional snowflaking in the post above actually addresses the substance of this problem. You're just emoting and waxing hysterial about people attacking your precious Ripperger who's "reaching souls" and someone who "saved [your] life", etc. then idiotically launch into irrelevant
ad hominem attacks.
He's certainly reaching people's pocketbooks, in a way that he never could have come CLOSE to doing had he not decided to capitalize on people's curiosity regarding subject related to demons, exorcism, possession, etc.
Such curiosity alone is incredibly dangerous. He actually encourages people to pray to Our Lady of Sorrows to find out the name or type of the demon that's afflicting them. What? As if by knowing his name we superstitiously have some power over them? That's actually the type of thing that Satanists and witches do, invoke them by name to get them to do their bidding. Also, he has this list of types of demons that go on for pages and pages, including, I kid you note ... a "demon of flatulence". So ... if I have a lot of gas, then it certainly could not have been that bean burrito from Taco Bell that I had for dinner, but it must be that dreaded demon of flatulence. While this example is a bit facetious (though he does list that demon), the point is that it can lead to mental problems and weird neuroses if you're seeing demons behind every bush, and behind every bad thing that happens. He talks about demons causing financial problems, and making business mistakes, and ... various health problems, and ... yes, flatulence. Catholics know that there are three sources of sin and or evil, and the devil is only one of them: the flesh, the world, and the devil. Sometimes we just make stupid decisions that cause financial problems, or have genetic issues or were exposesd to things that cause health problems, etc. ... there's not always some diabolical attack behind it. But if we start to view the world that way, where, if I drop a dish in the kitchen and it breaks, I'm running to my Deliverance book to go look up which demon may have been responsible instead of my having been clumsy, inatentive, or had slippery fingers due to wet hands.
It is PRECISELY when you being to start "interacting" with and "engaging" demons that you can give them entry points into your life. That is why things like ouija boards are so dangerous, because you start to interact with these beings you consider intelligent, and you're thereby rolling out the red carpet. So if you're no issuing commands to demons, i.e. communicating with them ... that's incredibly dangerous. True saintly spiritual writers, such as St. Francis de Sales, advise people to IGNORE the devil, and to focus on God, pray to Our Lady and the saints, knowing that they cannot hurt you if God does not permit it. He in fact likens the devil to a vicious dog on a chain who's barking ferociously, where it doesn't pose any danger, since it's chained up (by God) EXCEPT if you go near it out of curiosity.
That example reminded me of an old "Tom & Jerry" cartoon where Butch the dog is on a chain. Tom measured out how far the chain reached, and so he drew a little line in the sand. He would then go right up to the line, provoke the dog, and then when the dog reacted and came to the end of the chain, he started beating him as he barked. Finally, the dog got sick of it and erased the line in the sand, and then drew one a bit closer, to where it was within range of his change. Next time Tom tried that, he got savaged by the dog.
So the more we mess with things diabolical, go studying it, go in search of the demon's name, start communicating with it, issuing commands to it, acting like big shots who have superiority over them ... that's INCREDIBLY DANGEROUS.
Father Ripperger's book should be put on the Index ASAP.
Refute the points made here or just shut up.
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