BTW, I'm no fan of the Warrens whatsoever.  I think they exhibited and promoted an unhealthy curiosity about the occult, and have probably caused more people to get ensnared in it than they helped get out of it. 

I think the positive of the Warrens' popularity comes from what you stated about making people realize the preternatural is real. Other than that, I do share your sentiments. I remember watching a tour of their "occult museum" after seeing the Conjuring 3, and thinking to myself how much better it would be if that place burned down rather than serve as a curiosity. It's right back to the same error that comes from the vain curiosity of programs like Ghost Adventures or Ghost Hunters, which encourages people to open doors to the demonic by acknowledging preternatural events. And, in turn, puffs up Catholics to think they can fight the Devil directly. Forgetting just how unimaginably powerful they are as angelic minds.

Reply at your leisure, I'm going to bed.
Pax

Hello Ladislaus.

Did Fr. Ripperger or the Doloran Fathers respond to your letter?

No, but I did not expect them to ... either because they get lots of e-mail, and sometimes website forms disappear into a "bit bucket" or else because they did not particularly care for what I had to say (or for my tone).

I believe that their core error is believing we have authority to adjure demons in cases where we have authority over those who might be afflicted by them.  This is not stated anywhere in Traditional sources.  It is required to have authority over the demons themselves (as an Exorcist) to be able to issue commands to them directly.  Otherwise, these prayers take on an imprecatory nature, which is forbidden under pain of grave sin, and incredibly dangerous.

I own a car and see a thief trying to break in and steal it.  So I go confront the thief and yell at him, "That's my car, so I order you to respect my property and leave."  Chances are that he'll just pull out a gun and blow me away (before I have a chance to call the police) rather than heed my command.  But if I call in the police, the enforcers, they'll take care of the problem for me.

So, I believe that only acceptable approach would be to invoke our authority over our loved ones by asking their Guardian Angels, or our own Guardian Angel, to ward off the demons.  Or to implore Our Lady based on the same reasons.  Or to implore Our Lord and God the Father.  Certainly the Angels and Our Lady will respect the God-given authority we have over our loved ones ... but there's no expectation that demons will do so, not unless they're forced or constained to by God anyway.

So the prayers could be adapted/rewritten to implore God, Our Lady, St. Michael, Our Guardian Angel, and the Guardian Angels of our loved ones to enforce the authority, which is God's authority, over our loved ones.

It is a very dangerous thing to be hurling commands directly at demons, to be engaging them directly, to be contantly trying to "figure out" which demons (by name or other appelation) are afflcting our loved ones.  That can and often does "backfire" on people.  We're best to take the advice of St. Francis de Sales to simply trust in God, having full confidence that these demons can do absolutely nothing except by God's permission.  That one author cited earlier likened the demons to dogs on chains.  They can bark up a storm.  But they can't hurt us.  Not unless we approach them.

Dimond Brothers made an excellent point in one of their videos.  They theorize that the demons cause various commotions precisely to provoke people to engage with them, and once they do, they're opening up various doors for them to start interfering more directly.

I trust in God, Our Blessed Mother, the Terror of Demons, from whose presence they flee, St. Michael, and our Guardian Angels.  I also trust in the Blessed Sacramentals of the Church:  St. Benedicts' Medals/Crucifixes, Holy Water, and Blessed Salt.  All of these are far more effective than my attempting to stand here as a bigshot and issue commands to demons.  In fact, I can see the attempt by us in-their-view-inferior mortals to command demons as enraging them.  One saint theorized that a major reason the Demons rebelled against God was due to the knowledge that these human woman would be exalted over them and crowned their Queen.  And the SECOND there's even the slightest inkling of someone acting like a bigshot, taking even the slightest bit of pride in this alleged power over the demons, it's game over.  That's another reason why such things should be left to Exorcists.  Father Bob Smith realizes that it is not Bob Smith the man casting out any demons, but the Church's authority, which is God's authority, and Christ in him, as he bears the image/chracter of Christ when acting In Persona Christi.  Bob Smith couldn't cast a fly out of his bedroom much less a demon out of a human being.

I believe this is true and I have heard it a number of times

but I have no reference.

Do you?

No, I can't find it offhand, but I've heard and seen it cited.  I can't recall which saint it was who so theorized.  Or was it Katherine Emmerick / Mary of Agreda or one of those private revelations.

This rather makes sense to me, that they would despise the thought of being made subject to a human being, who would be their Queen.  I mean, after all, they would realize with their angelic intellects their subordination to God, since after all they did not create themselves.  If they would be so affected, even in the case of someone as exalted as Our Blessed Mother, imagine their reaction to a sinful lay person attempting to issue commands to them, say, with Pablo the Mexican attempting to lord it over them and issue commands.

I would be surprised if Pablo did not come under serious diabolical influence (and/or control) as a direct result of his "lay exorcist" activities.  Perhaps some Traditional priest should look into whether or not it would make sense to perform at least a minor exorcism on the man.

Lest this topic get buried in the lengthy argument on the other thread, 

which is where?

Uncharacteristically, Fr Ripperger is promoting the purple scapular of Marie Julie Jehenney, even though she does not have the Consilliar Good Housekeeping Seal of approval. Go figure.

Fr. Ripperger was such a scandal at St. Joan of Arc in Coeur d'Alene, ID that a large group of his parishioners appealed to the bishop to remove or discipline him.  The complaints involved financial mishandlings and inappropriate friendships with female parishioners.  He even had a minion harassing people on his behalf and police were involved.  This man is a public figure in rad-trad circles.  Fr. Ripperger was transferred to Tulsa shortly after the meeting with St. Joan of Arc parishioners with the bishop.

Without facts and sources this is unfounded gossip.