Pope says we're in Satan's grip

Pope says we're in Satan's grip - World - theage.com.au:

"POPE Benedict has warned that the world is in the grip of Satan as he prayed for mankind to open its eyes to the 'filth around us'.
At a Good Friday ceremony recreating the passage of Jesus Christ to the Crucifixion, Benedict XVI lashed out at man's 'decadent narcissism'.

The Good Friday service, held at the Colosseum, showed the 14 stages of Christ's suffering and was designed to allow worshippers to share in the agony of Jesus. The Pope himself carried the cross during two stages.
The prayers, written by Archbishop Angelo Comastri, the Vatican City's vicar-general, were approved by the Pope, and reflect his conservative outlook.

'Surely God is deeply pained by the attack on the family,' the Pope said. 'Today we seem to be witnessing a kind of anti-Genesis, a counter-plan, a diabolical pride aimed at eliminating the family.'"

I don't know of anyone who wants to eliminate the family. The Church has done a pitiful job becoming a new community which supports the family, after the industrial revolution began tearing the family assusnder, with grown children folowing their industrial and corporate jobs all over the country and, now, the world. Extended families living near each other are rare anymore. (All that business with the pedophiles in the priesthood didn't help matters.)

But here's the thing. It is my humble opinion that people all over the world are losing trust in their institutions, religious, political, economic...you name it. I don't see the lack of faith that many of the clergy, from many denominations, are talking about. There is a growing spiritual/faith movement in this country. It is just not heavily reliant on the churches.

I do, however, agree with the Pope; there is a dark force at work in ths world. Many of the pro-family types in this nation are screaming about attacks on the family while waving the falg and demanding military attacks on Muslim families in the middle east.

That, You Holiness, is evil.