US prelate addresses reality
of Satan in Rome symposium

Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver spoke on the task of evangelizing the modern culture and what he called religious leaders’ embarrassment to discuss the existence of Satan at an address at the Emmanuel Community’s annual symposium in Rome.

The American archbishop spoke for half an hour at the Pontifical Lateran University to an audience ranging from college students to people in their 70s. His speech, entitled, “The Prince of this World and the Evangelization of Culture,” was part of a symposium that lasted from Jan. 25-27 and was dedicated to looking at “Priests and Laity in the Mission.”

“We are creatures made for heaven; but we are born of this earth. We love the beauty of this world; but we sense there is something more behind that beauty. Our longing for that ‘something’ pulls us outside of ourselves,” he said.

Read full story here