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Priest Thanks Demons For "Voodoo Help"

Father Davide Rota, 70, thanked God and the demons for his recovery from the coronavirus in his weekly column on EcoDiBergamo.it (May 10). Rota was taken to the hospital with a coronavirus infection …More
Father Davide Rota, 70, thanked God and the demons for his recovery from the coronavirus in his weekly column on EcoDiBergamo.it (May 10).
Rota was taken to the hospital with a coronavirus infection on February 29. He runs the Patronato San Vincenzo, a relief organisation of Bergamo Diocese, Italy.
In his column, he expresses his gratefulness to an "unknown African shaman” who practiced a Voodoo ritual for the sake his health: "You never know."
The ritual was organised and paid for by African residents of the San Vincenzo house in Bergamo.
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Ultraviolet
Maybe it was the same African Shaman who was so warmly praised by a Catholic Saint. ;-)
"You are strongly attached to the traditions which your ancestors transmitted to you. It is legitimate to be grateful to the ancestors who transmitted to you the sense of the sacral, faith in a one and good god, the taste for celebrations, and consideration for moral life and harmony in society." -Saint John …More
Maybe it was the same African Shaman who was so warmly praised by a Catholic Saint. ;-)

"You are strongly attached to the traditions which your ancestors transmitted to you. It is legitimate to be grateful to the ancestors who transmitted to you the sense of the sacral, faith in a one and good god, the taste for celebrations, and consideration for moral life and harmony in society." -Saint John Paul II "La libertà religiosa è un diritto inalienabile," in L'Osservatore Romano, February 6, 1993, pg.4..
J G Tasan
I’m wondering on how St. Padre Pio feel about that; since he had told ‘that saint’ that he would one day becomes the Pope…
Ultraviolet
I wonder if he ever imagined they'd both end up on scapulars. ;-)