Asked for comment, Satan replied, “Well for a symbol, I’m doing quite a job on the Jesuits, am I not?”

Jesuits have *COUGH* a recent history of downplaying and denying the things of God.  So it should not surprise that the Superior General Arturo Sosa Abascal, an ally of Pope Francis, of course, is downplaying the things of Satan as well and saying Satan “exists as a symbolic reality, not as a personal reality.”

Well, for a symbolic reality he sure is having his way with the Jesuits.  For one thing, as many, including C. S. Lewis, have noticed, Satan’s best trick is conning men into thinking he does not really exist.  He has apparently succeeded in making the Superior General one of those foolish men.

Normally, the only Popes whom I ask for prayers are Gregory and Leo the Greats.  But in this case, as at other times when the Jesuits unfortunately come to mind, I will conclude as follows:

Pope Clement XIV, pray for us!