Amorth Veneration in Neo-Church: Exorcism Divorced from Christ’s Kingship
The National Catholic Register portal, the English-language mouthpiece of the EWTN neo-church media empire, reports on a conference held September 16 at the Basilica of St. Mary Queen of Apostles in Rome commemorating the tenth anniversary of the death of Father Gabriele Amorth. The event, organized by the modernist rag Famiglia Cristiana, the Society of St. Paul (founded by the pseudo-beatified James Alberione), and the International Association of Exorcists (a neo-church bureaucracy founded by Amorth himself in 1994), featured a lineup of neo-clerics: “Father” Francesco Bamonte, “Father” Marcello Lanza, “Father” Aldo Buonaiuto, and “Father” Stefano Stimamiglio. They extolled Amorth’s “humanity,” “spirituality,” and “communication skills,” framing his exorcism ministry as an “act of charity” rather than the exercise of Christ’s royal authority over the powers of darkness. This hagiographic whitewash of a post-conciliar functionary exposes the neo-church’s total substitution of the supernatural order for naturalistic humanitarianism.