‘King of Darkness’
Via Newsvine:
Pope Benedict XVI’s chief exorcist, Rev. Gabriele Amorth, has called fictional wizard-in-training Harry Potter the “king of darkness, the devil.”
I thought Satan himself was only the Prince of Darkness, so it’s pretty awesome that a pimply little British kid — a fictional pimply little British kid, mind — is the frickin’ KING.
More interestingly, though: the Pope has a Chief Exorcist? How do you get that gig? Do you have to be top of the class at exorcism school? Is it a seniority (monsignority?) thing? Does he have a resume or some case studies I could have a look at? I’m wondering who he’s worked on.
Chief exorcist? What year is it?
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It gets even better. From wikipedia:
“He became an exorcist in 1986 under the tutelage of Father Candido Amantini and states in his book that he has personally carried out over 30,000 exorcisms. Father Amorth is also convinced that Adolf Hitler, Karl Marx and Josef Stalin may have been possessed by demonic spirits so as to affect millions of people by evil.”
He also founded the Internaion Association of Exorcists, whom I am now petitioning to become a member. Who knew?
Also - he lists his favourite movie on the wiki page. You get one guess.
One guess? I’m going to have to go with “Romancing the Bone 7″.