2. “And these signs shall attend those who believe: in my name they shall cast out devils.” Mk 16:17

3. “The kingdom of heaven is at hand! Cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out devils.” Mt. 10:8

4. “Then having summoned the twelve apostles, he gave them power and authority over all the devils and to cure diseases.” Lk 9: 1-2

5. According to Pope Paul VI in 1972, "What are the greatest needs of the Church today? Do not think that our answer is simplistic or superstitious and unreal: one of the greatest needs today is the defense from that evil that we call the devil."

6. And on May 24,1987, Pope John Paul II said, "The battle against the devil, which is the principal task of Saint Michael the archangel, is still being fought today, because the devil is still alive and active in the world.“

7. In a lecture given on October 24, 1995 during the International Symposium organized by the Vatican Congregation for the Clergy, the future Pope Benedict that “preaching is connected with the “casting out of devils” (1:39):

8. it is a matter not just of speech but of effective action. And the preaching takes shape in no bright, happy world, but in a world tyrannized by demons, into which it intervenes so as to liberate.”

9. And in his latest book, Jesus of Nazareth, the Pope tells us that “The first task is preaching: to give people the light of the word, the message of Jesus … because the world is ruled by the powers of evil, this preaching is at the same time a struggle with those powers.”

10. Cardinal Ratzinger now Pope Benedict 16 th stated in an interview (The Ratzinger Report), “There are already signs of the return of these dark powers, and Satanic Cults are spreading more and more in the secularized world”.

11. Then Cardinal Ratzinger said to a group of bishops attending a seminar (The Ecclesial Movements in the Pastoral Concern of the Bishops) in June of 1999 regarding the devil that he “is always at work … instigating untold cruelties, as unfortunately seen throughout the twentieth century”

12. As Fr. Benedict Heron, OSB in his book “I Saw Satan Fall” tells us, “part of the difficulty of resisting demonic attacks is that most of them are not recognized as such even by many Christians … he [Satan] is normally happier not to be recognized but to work in a hidden and secret way – there is less danger of stirring up opposition if he is unrecognized.”