A state of war exists between the papacy and the Religious Order of the Jesuits — the Society of Jesus, to give the Order its official name. That war signals the most lethal change to take place within the ranks of the professional Roman clergy over the last thousand years. And, as with all important events in the Roman Catholic Church, it involves the interests, the lives, and the destinies of ordinary men and women in the millions.
17
But he, knowing their thoughts, said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation;
and a house
divided
against a house falleth.
Matt 12:25.
Mark 3:24.
18
If Satan also be divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand?
because ye say that I cast out devils through Beelzebub.
The superior general of the Society of Jesus said Aug. 21 that the devil is a symbol, but not a person.
The devil, “exists as the personification of evil in different structures, but not in persons, because is not a person, is a way of acting evil. He is not a person like a human person. It is a way of evil to be present in human life,” Fr. Arturo Sosa, SJ, said Wednesday in an interview with Italian magazine
Tempi.
“Good and evil are in a permanent war in the human conscience and we have ways to point them out. We recognize God as good, fully good. Symbols are part of reality, and the devil exists as a symbolic reality, not as a personal reality,” he added.
