This is reminiscent of NYPD Sgt Ralph Sarchie, author of the book "Beware The Night", the basis of the movie "Deliver Us From Evil".

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The Devil In The City Of Angels
September 20, 2019 by sd

Perhaps, in this time when much of the Church has abdicated its responsibility for spiritual warfare, it is up to the laity to step forward, and if so, fellows like Jesse Romero show us the way.

Jesse, about whom we have written previously, is a retired Los Angeles sheriff’s deputy, and in his book, The Devil in the City of Angels, which we highly recommend, are amazing accounts of up-close-and-personal encounters with the devil.

Anyone who doubts that Satan is behind much of our crime and mental illness needs to read this book (and also, in some cases, listen less to theologians than to exorcists; as Archbishop Fulton Sheen once said, the Church’s real problem is that “our theologians have neglected the demonic” and “the demonic is always most powerful when he is denied… It is almost impossible today to find a theologian writing about the demonic, unless it be to deny it”).

A sad state of affairs it is, when the head of the Jesuit Order states publicly, as happened recently, that the devil is a mere symbol, and when an auxiliary bishop on the West Coast — asked by an interviewer what he would do if confronted by an actual case of possession — said, “Call the police!” He was only half-kidding.

Obviously we have forgotten Mark 16:17: “These signs will accompany those who believe: in My Name they will drive out demons.” It’s how He said Christians would be known as Christians!

“One out of three theologians does not believe in the existence of Satan,” wrote the famous exorcist of Rome, Father Gabriele Amorth. “Almost two out of three believe in his existence but not in the practical actions and refuse to take it into account in pastoral activity. The few exceptions are forced to act against the tide, and often are ridiculed and ostracized by the rest of the clergy.” No wonder the devil was able to enter our seminaries!

Call the police?

Image result for Mentally Ill Offenders Unit Los Angeles County sheriffIf so, make it former Deputy Jesse Romero. Call and ask him what he has seen — if, entering a home where a woman had just blown the head off her husband, and whose eyes turned totally white when they took her in the patrol car, her voice, growling and barking, now that of a demon (as she spoke to an unseen presence), if he found the devil to be just a symbol.

Or ask Jesse about the encounter in East Los Angeles when Romero and a partner responded to a family disturbance only to find four men struggling to hold down a teenage boy who had ripped apart the apartment with preternatural strength. This is an officer who has had more encounters with extraordinary possessions — truly amazing ones — than most exorcists.

“[The grandmother] invited us in, and what I saw caused me to rub my eyeballs,” writes the former deputy, whom we interviewed a few weeks back. “There was a young teen on his back. He was being restrained by four adult men, who were each holding an arm and a leg, and he was growling like a dog, baring his teeth. His body was shaking violently, he was spitting, scratching, and biting, he had no pupil or iris, and his eyes were completely white. He was speaking a language that I didn’t understand; it was not Spanish. In Spanish I told the men holding this teen, ‘Sheriff’s Department, let him go.’ They let him go and his body remained in a supine position about twelve inches off the ground. My partner and I got down on the floor to see what was holding him up, and he was simply levitating in the air for a few seconds before the men pushed him down again. The grandmother told me in Spanish, ‘Officer, he talks with the devil in his room every night.'”

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