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Tensions have risen in Ukraine this month, as its military has confronted heavily armed, pro-Russian forces that took control of Crimea. But as of now, some of most serious attacks to be alleged are ones hitting websites on both sides of the disagreement.
"US hackers target Crimean referendum website," the Kremlin-run Voice of Russia reports Sunday. The site, referendum2014.ru, uses Russia's Internet country code (.ru), rather than Ukraine's (.ua).
The strategy the various groups of hackers used was reportedly a distributed denial-of-service attack, a common approach that seeks to overload a server with huge traffic demands from a variety of sources.
Voice of Russia goes on to quote organizers of today's vote, which asks people in Crimea to decide whether to join Russia:
"A new wave of a massive D-Dos attack hit our site at 1 o'clock pm last night.
"Our IT safety experts managed to find out where those attacks came from. It is University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. The most powerful scanning of servers before the attack was carried out exactly from there."
The agency says of Urbana, "the technological and technical potentialities of this city exceed by thousands of times the needs of its residents."
News of that attack came after NATO reported its main homepage and other websites were attacked Saturday and Sunday.
NATO Spokesperson Oana Lungescu said on Twitter that a "significant DDoS attack" had hit the organization's website. She added that while the attack crippled several websites, it had not affected the integrity of NATO's systems or data. The attack continued into Sunday afternoon, she said.
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"A Ukrainian group claimed responsibility for the DDoS attacks on the www.cyber-berkut.org website, a claim that could not be verified immediately. The authors, writing in Russian not Ukrainian, said patriotic Ukrainians were angry with NATO for interfering in its affairs."
The newspaper explains that "Berkut" is the name of Ukraine's special police, which was disbanded after President Viktor Yanukovych fled his post and traveled to Russia.
Recent attacks also struck websites in Russia. On Friday, the Kremlin's site was brought down.
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"'A powerful cyber attack is under way on the (Kremlin) site,' a spokeswoman for the Russian president's press service said by telephone as security experts struggled to curtail disruption."
Sites of the Central Bank of Russia and the foreign ministry were also attacked Friday, with at least one of those denial-of-service attacks exceeding capacity by more than 10 times, according to the state-run Itar-Tass news agency.
The agency quoted a Kremlin source saying that the attack had nothing to do with events in Crimea.
"Such spamming happens regularly, but to varying degrees of activity. It is not right to link it with developments in Ukraine," the source is quoted as saying.
Some hacking attacks followed an order by Russian regulators Thursday that blocked access to several websites that have criticized President Vladimir Putin and his policies regarding Crimea and the Ukraine.
Russians who tried to access the website Grani.ru, which Radio Free Europe calls "a popular opposition news portal," were met with this message: "Dear users! We apologize, but access to the requested site is restricted."
The top story on the Grani site today describes the referendum in Crimea as taking place under occupation and in violation of Ukraine's constitution.
"Putin has taken the next big step, both in his crackdown on Russian liberty and, possibly, the next phase of his preparations for war on Ukraine," opposition figure and former chess champion Garry Kasparov wrote on his Facebook page. Speaking of his own news portal and several other sites, Kasparov added, "The last source of truth available in Putin's police state is going dark."
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Foodeducate is a nice one! and it's free, too i enjoyed it
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Great list, just wish they were also available on android :(
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Can't believe they didn't mention MyFitnessPal! Great for tracking calories, setting goals.. Also, if you have any FitBit products, their site is really good. I can't recommend the FitBit Aria scale and FitBit One tracker enough...such good products!
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Although this is a recycled article, some of these apps are very helpful. Check out Fitday. It's great!
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Flocks of giant white birds are catching the eyes of outdoor enthusiasts across Minnesota, as once-rare American White Pelicans migrate north to their nesting grounds across the state.
American White Pelicans were driven to near extinction in the early 20th century from human pressures, according to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR). There were no reports of nesting pelicans in Minnesota for 90 years, from 1878 until 1968.
Conservation efforts and federal regulations have helped pelican populations make a slow and steady comeback. "The prairie pothole region of western Minnesota hosts 22 percent of the global population of this species," according to Lisa Gelvin-Innvaer, DNR nongame wildlife specialist. In Minnesota, there are estimated to be about 22,000 pairs of pelicans that nest at 16 sites on seven lakes across the state.
American White Pelicans leave Minnesota each fall as lakes and rivers freeze. They winter along the Gulf Coast from Florida to Mexico and typically return to Minnesota in early spring, as lakes and rivers thaw.
They are among the world's largest birds and are easily recognized in flight. Wingspans up to nine feet, bright white plumage with black-edged wings and large, orange bills distinguish them from any other species.
"Pelicans often fly in evenly spaced lines or V formations," Gelvin-Innvaer said. "Unlike swans or geese which fly with necks outstretched, pelicans fly with their necks doubled back against their shoulders. They often set up a rhythmic pattern of wing beats that ripple from the lead bird back to the end."
American White Pelicans are highly social and live in large, dense colonies. They feed exclusively on small fish and crustaceans and will work together for a meal.
"A group of pelicans will swim in a semicircle to herd their prey into shallow water," Gelvin-Innvaer said. "Then they'll scoop up fish and water in their beak pouch, drain out the water and swallow their food."
Pelicans are popular among wildlife watchers. Gelvin-Innvaer advises that the birds are best enjoyed from a distance. "Pelican colonies are vulnerable to human disturbance and contact should be minimized," she said.
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The Passover. 1a Josiah celebrated in Jerusalem a Passover to honor the LORD; the Passover sacrifice was slaughtered on the fourteenth day of the first month.b 2He reappointed the priests to their duties and confirmed them in the service of the LORD's house. 3He said to the Levites who were to instruct all Israel, and who were consecrated to the LORD: "Put the holy ark in the house built by Solomon, son of David, king of Israel. It shall no longer be a burden on your shoulders. Serve now the LORD, your God, and his people Israel.c 4Prepare yourselves by your ancestral houses and your divisions according to the prescriptions of David, king of Israel, and the prescriptions of his son Solomon. 5Stand in the sanctuary according to the branches of the ancestral houses of your kin, the common people, so that the distribution of the Levites and the families may be the same.d 6Slaughter the Passover sacrifice, sanctify yourselves, and be at the disposition of your kin, that all may be done according to the word of the LORD given through Moses."e
7Josiah contributed to the common people a flock of lambs and young goats,f thirty thousand in number, each to serve as a Passover victim for all who were present, and also three thousand oxen; these were from the king's property. 8His princes also gave a voluntary offering to the people, the priests, and the Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, prefects of the house of God, gave to the priests two thousand six hundred Passover victims along with three hundred oxen.g 9Conaniah and his brothers Shemaiah, Nethanel, Hashabiah, Jehiel, and Jozabad, the rulers of the Levites, contributed to the Levites five thousand Passover victims, together with five hundred oxen.
10When the service had been arranged, the priests took their places, as did the Levites in their divisions according to the king's command. 11The Passover sacrifice was slaughtered, whereupon the priests splashed some of the blood and the Levites proceeded with the skinning. 12They separated out what was destined for the burnt offering and gave it to various groups of the ancestral houses of the common people to offer to the LORD, as is written in the book of Moses. They did the same with the oxen. 13They cooked the Passover on the fire as prescribed, and also cooked the sacred portions in pots, caldrons, and pans, then brought them quickly to all the common people.h 14Afterward they prepared the Passover for themselves and for the priests. Indeed the priests, the sons of Aaron, were busy sacrificing burnt offerings and the fatty portions until night; therefore the Levites prepared for themselves and for the priests, the sons of Aaron. 15The singers, the sons of Asaph, were at their posts as commanded by David and by Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun, the king's seer. The gatekeepers were at every gate; there was no need for them to leave their stations, for their fellow Levites prepared for them. 16Thus the entire service of the LORD was arranged that day so that the Passover could be celebrated and the burnt offerings sacrificed on the altar of the LORD, as King Josiah had commanded. 17The Israelites who were present on that occasion kept the Passover and the feast of the Unleavened Bread for seven days. 18i No such Passover had been observed in Israel since the time of Samuel the prophet; no king of Israel had observed a Passover like that celebrated by Josiah, the priests, and Levites, all of Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 19It was in the eighteenth year of Josiah's reign that this Passover was observed.
Josiah's End. 20After Josiah had done all this to restore the temple, Neco, king of Egypt, came up to fight at Carchemish on the Euphrates, and Josiah went out to meet him. 21Neco sent messengers to him, saying: "What quarrel is between us, king of Judah? I have not come against you this day, for my war is with another kingdom, and God has told me to hasten. Do not interfere with God who is with me; let him not destroy you." 22But Josiah would not withdraw from him, for he was seeking a pretext to fight with him. Therefore he would not listen to the words of Neco that came from the mouth of God, but went out to fight in the plain of Megiddo. 23Then the archers shot King Josiah, who said to his servants, "Take me away, I am seriously wounded."j 24His servants took him from his own chariot, placed him in the one he had in reserve, and brought him to Jerusalem, where he died. He was buried in the tombs of his ancestors, and all Judah and Jerusalem mourned him. 25Jeremiah also composed a lamentation for Josiah, which is recited to this day by all the male and female singers in their lamentations for Josiah. These have been made an ordinance for Israel, and can be found written in the Lamentations.*
26k The rest of the acts of Josiah, his good deeds in accord with what is written in the law of the LORD, 27and his words, first and last, are recorded in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.
* [35:25] There is no mention of such a lamentation for Josiah composed by Jeremiah in either 2 Kings or Jeremiah; but see note on Zec 12:11. Lamentations: probably a reference to the Book of Lamentations.
a. [35:1–19] 2 Kgs 23:21–23.
b. [35:1] Ex 12:1–28; 2 Kgs 23:21.
c. [35:3] 2 Chr 5:4; 1 Chr 15:12, 15.
e. [35:6] 2 Chr 30:17.
i. [35:18–19] 2 Kgs 23:22–23.
j. [35:23] 2 Chr 18:33–34.
k. [35:26] 2 Kgs 23:28.
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2011 Commencement Address
President Shirley M. Tilghman
May 31, 2011 -- As Prepared
It is a great pleasure for me to continue Princeton's longstanding tradition of letting the president have the first words at Opening Exercises and the last words at Commencement. This year the last words must be "thank you" -- for your decision to study at this University and contribute to making it such a lively and interesting place. I sometimes say that I have the best possible job in the world, for each year a new crop of more than 1,900 young men and women -- undergraduates and graduate students -- arrive to keep me challenged, entertained and greatly impressed. From the last-second shot against Harvard that sent the men's basketball team on to March Madness to the Triangle Club's hilarious fall show; from a senior thesis that analyzed the factors that affect the fate of detainees in Guantanamo to one that created an astoundingly original play exploring the impact of Asperger's syndrome on three families; from building community around the world as Engineers Without Borders to bringing children with Down syndrome and their parents to campus to play and learn; from graduate policy workshops on such issues as job creation in Haiti to brilliant doctoral dissertations on topics ranging from the Renaissance trade in classical antiquities to string theory, you have left your impressive imprint on this remarkable University.
Today you leave this privileged place as the beneficiaries of a world-class education -- one that I hope has prepared you well for whatever comes next, including the unexpected. Without in any way diminishing the importance of your own hard work, you are among the lucky ones. Almost certainly each of you encountered along the way one or more teachers who encouraged you to excel, or raised your sights, or inspired in you a passion for learning -- like the teachers we have honored this morning. I am here today because Lionel Orlikow, my history teacher at Kelvin High School in Winnipeg, Manitoba, sent a lightning bolt through my mind and opened my eyes to the world beyond my middle-class neighborhood. He recruited me into an after-school activity called the History Club, surely one of the least enticing names to attract a complacent 15-year-old. For three years we explored everything from the world's religions to the political philosophies of Canada's many political parties. He inspired me to aim high and be bold. So, like you, I am one of the lucky ones.
But today there are far too many children growing up in the United States, and in many places around the world, who will never encounter a Mr. Orlikow. I find it deeply paradoxical that the United States has without question the finest colleges and universities in the world, but a K-12 education system that is leaving vast numbers of students behind. As Secretary of Education Arne Duncan noted in his op-ed in The Daily Princetonian last month, one in four students drops out or fails to complete high school on time. That graduation rate puts us in 20th place among the 34 member countries of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Even among those who stay in school, American students perform at or below the average for OECD countries in reading, mathematics and science. What is worrisome about these data, which have been replicated in study after study, is that the relative performance of U.S. students has been steadily declining over the past quarter century. What is downright distressing is the fact that a student's chances of being in the bottom quartile and never finishing high school are almost entirely determined by his or her family circumstances. Just consider the fact that the best predictor of SAT score is family income.
Secretary Duncan calls the unequal access of students to an excellent education the civil rights issue of our time, and he is right. It raises fundamental questions of social justice and undermines the very premise on which this country was founded -- that all men (and women, of course) are created equal and have certain unalienable rights, including life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Yet without good education available to all there cannot be equality, and the rights enshrined in the Declaration of Independence cannot be effectively pursued in the 21st century or any other century for that matter. As Horace Mann, often described as the father of the U.S. public education system, said in 1848, "Education [then,] beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery." Education has always been, and will continue to be, our most powerful engine for social mobility.
But even if you are not moved by arguments that invoke social justice, we as a nation have a compelling interest in ensuring that our fellow citizens are given every opportunity for a good education. As our economy moves from its historic agricultural and manufacturing base to what has been called a knowledge or information economy, it is going to become impossible to earn a living and raise a family without, at the very minimum, a good high school education. A permanent underclass that lives without opportunity or hope will be a chronic drag on the economy and a potential source of social unrest. The story of America, after all, is the story of parents working hard so that their children have access to a better life. Yet as John Kenneth Galbraith observed a few years ago, "… the normal upward movement which was for long the solvent for discontent has been arrested. The underclass has become a semi-permanent rather than a generational phenomenon." He went on to propose that "We must have good, effective education that allows, encourages and qualifies for the upward movement that has been the source of tranquility in the past."
For those who believe that Galbraith's diagnosis of social stasis is overly pessimistic, there is yet another reason born of pure self-interest why each and every one of us needs to advocate on behalf of high quality K-12 education for all. The advent of the knowledge economy has inextricably linked America's future economic competitiveness in the world to the creativity and nimbleness of its workforce. In what New York Times columnist Tom Friedman has called the "quiet crisis," the flattening of the Earth brought about by the Internet has fundamentally changed the economic landscape and allowed large countries like China, India and Brazil to rapidly compete in the marketplace of ideas. Like Friedman, I believe a flat world is a good thing because it has the potential to raise all boats, but it is going to require a renewed commitment in this country to promoting the educational achievements of everyone, not just the lucky ones. A recent study by the consulting firm McKinsey concluded that the current educational achievement gap "creates the equivalent of a permanent deep recession in terms of the gap between actual and potential output in the economy" and estimated that closing that gap could boost gross domestic product by as much as 16 percent. The future prosperity of everyone depends on the closure of that gap.
What, you may be asking yourself, can I do to help address an issue that is so complex and whose effects are so systemic? What gives me tremendous hope is that Princetonians of all stripes are taking part in what Teach for America founder Wendy Kopp '89 has called an education revolution that is gaining momentum across the country. Wendy is now the stuff of Princeton legend, having incubated the idea for a teacher corps of young, educated and highly motivated men and women in her senior thesis at Princeton some 20 years ago. This year 16 percent of the members of the class of 2011 applied to join Teach for America and spend at least two years in some of the poorest performing schools in the nation -- making teaching one of the most competitive things to do after graduation. Wendy started a revolution!
But so in her own way has Michelle Shearer '95, this year's National Teacher of the Year, who discovered her interest in teaching at Princeton while volunteering at the Marie Katzenbach School for the Deaf in Trenton. Today she combines her love of chemistry with a passion for teaching science to disadvantaged students who historically have not excelled in scientific fields. Former University trustee Raj Vinnakota '93 took a different path to education reform. He founded the SEED School, the nation's first charter boarding school, in Washington, D.C. This school and a second one that is now flourishing in Baltimore cater to the poorest and most disadvantaged students with the intent of preparing them not just for high school but for college graduation. Another former trustee, John Scully '66, began directing his philanthropy 20 years ago to an after-school tutoring and mentoring program for disadvantaged youth in Richmond, California, called Making Waves, which has grown to include a charter middle school and a new high school. After a highly successful career as an Internet entrepreneur, Jared Polis '96 ran for the Colorado State Board of Education, where he strongly advocated for education reform. He also created a foundation and established two innovative charter schools designed to serve low-income students. Today he is representing the state of Colorado in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he is a powerful voice for the importance of public education.
Not all of you will become teachers like Michelle Shearer, or start a teacher corps like Wendy Kopp, or found schools like Raj Vinnakota, or have the philanthropic capacity of John Scully, or serve in public office like Jared Polis, or transform an entire community like our newest Princetonian and honorary degree recipient Geoffrey Canada. But all of you will be citizens of cities, suburbs, towns and hamlets that will depend on their public schools for their future prosperity, and all of you will be able to find ways to devote some of your time and talents to raising both their sights and their levels of achievement. Your pledge today to demand that those schools serve all their students well, not just the lucky ones like you, could make all the difference in the world. The stakes have never been higher, nor the moment more urgent, for millions of young Americans and the nation as a whole.
So as you walk, skip or run through the FitzRandolph Gates today, as educated citizens of this and many other nations, I hope you will carry forward the spirit of Princeton and all that it has sought to teach you. And I expect you to do as Mr. Orlikow directed me to do when I graduated from high school -- to aim high and be bold!
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To understand Hungarian cuisine, we have to take a peek into the past. Today's Hungarian cuisine is a synthesis of ancient Asiatic components mixed with Germanic, Italian, and Slavic elements. The food of Hungary can be considered a melting pot of the continent, with its own original cuisine from the Magyar people.
The nomadic past of the Hungarians is apparent in the prominence of meat (mainly poultry, pork and beef) in Hungarian cuisine as well as the amount of dishes cooked over open fire – just think of goulash, pörkölt (stew) or the fisherman's soup. In the 15th century King Matthias and his Neapolitan wife introduced new ingredients and spices like garlic and onions – things we couldn't imagine a proper Hungarian dish without today. Later, great numbers of Saxons, Armenians, Italians, Jews and Serbs settled in the Hungarian basin and in Transylvania and brought with them their own recipes. Elements of ancient Turkish cuisine were adopted during the Ottoman era, in the form of sweets, the cake called bejgli, the eggplant, stuffed peppers and stuffed cabbage called töltött káposzta. Hungarian cuisine was influenced by Austrian cuisine under the Austro-Hungarian Empire as well; dishes and methods of food preparation have often been borrowed from Austrian cuisine, and vice versa.
Hungarian cuisine today shows great regional variety – and this promises a lot of excitement for gastro-curious travellers. Just take a look at the Northern parts of the Great Plain. This is where our most famous dish, the Goulash soups comes from, developed by the local herdsmen. Don't compare the Hungarian goulash to other kinds of goulash you might have eaten elsewhere, by the way – the original one is a rich and spicy soup, best made out of the meat of the Hungarian Grey cattle. The area has given birth to the Hortobágyi pancake as well, a savoury crêpe filled with veal, today usually served as a starter. Or the slambuc, a hearty dish cooked on open fire out of potatoes and noodles, flavoured with some nice bacon. The region is proud to give home to Hungary's finest plums (in Szatmár) and apples (Szabolcs) – no lack of great pálinkas for the folks of the Eastern Plain.
The area around Lake Tisza is particularly known for the lamb stew of Karcag, part of the UNESCO cultural heritage. What it's like? Well, it's nothing for the faint hearted, this one includes basically every part of the animal including the head, the feet and the giblets, cooked over a large open fire. Head to Karcag for the annual lamb stew cooking competition to give it a try. It's not an easy meal admittedly, so help your digestion with a shot of the 77 pálinka of Nagykörű, made of 77 types of cherries.
The southern part of the Great Plain produces some of the finest veggies in the countryincluding the hot paprika (red chilli peppers) from Szeged, the onions from Makó, the green peppers from Szentes and the garlic from Bátyai. Two of the most popular Hungarian sausages are made in the area as well, the sausage from Gyula and from Csaba, as well as the Pick salami are usually part of any souvenir pack. And the peach pálinka from Kecskemét is one of the best in the country.
The area around Balaton has countless delicacies to offer as well, we'd advise you to try the fish dishes (the Maria fish soup, the catfish with galuska, a kind of gnocchi or the bream in sour cream). The Tihany-peninsula is well-known for its lavender – have you ever tried lavender liquor? There is so much new waiting for you to experience.
Hungarians are real soup-lovers, no doubt about that. A fine chicken soup is part of any proper Sunday lunch and comes in lots ofvarieties. The Újházi chicken soup for example is a rich soup packed with all kinds of vegetables, small slices of chicken and (preferably self-made) noodles. Vegetarians will be happy about the great offer of vegetable soups, on the other hand.
The lecsó is a dish originating from the Balkans, but it has become an integral part of Hungarian cuisine – we couldn't imagine life without it. It's a real summer dish made of sweet-succulent tomatoes, fresh paprika and some onions. Of course there are countless local varieties – some enjoy it with slices of sausages, some with eggs – it is as multi-faced as Hungary itself.
Hungarians are quite sweet-toothed, so there is no lack in sugary delicacies either. The sweet scent of the traditional kürtőskalács (chimney cake) fills the air of every Christmas fair – it's a favourite among the locals. The somlói galuska (sponge cake spilled with rich chocolate sauce and topped with light whipped cream) is a dessert offered at every proper Hungarian restaurant. The Dobos cake is a truly special Hungarian invention,a sponge cake layered with soft chocolate butter cream topped with a thin slice of caramel cracking in your mouth. Hmmmm... It's not all about great inventions, thoughas the most loved dessert for everyday has to be the pancake but is nothing like its American counterpart. It's as thin as a veil, filled with marmalade, cocoa powder, chocolate or vanilla sauce and wrapped up. Yummy!
Source: http://de.gotohungary.com/gastronomie-und-wein


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The Raising of Lazarus.* 1Now a man was ill, Lazarus from Bethany,a the village of Mary and her sister Martha. 2Mary was the one who had anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and dried his feet with her hair; it was her brother Lazarus who was ill. 3So the sisters sent word to him, saying, "Master, the one you love is ill." 4When Jesus heard this he said, "This illness is not to end in death,* but is for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it."b 5Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. 6So when he heard that he was ill, he remained for two days in the place where he was. 7Then after this he said to his disciples, "Let us go back to Judea." 8The disciples said to him, "Rabbi, the Jews were just trying to stone you, and you want to go back there?"c 9Jesus answered, "Are there not twelve hours in a day? If one walks during the day,d he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.e 10But if one walks at night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him."* 11He said this, and then told them, "Our friend Lazarus is asleep, but I am going to awaken him." 12So the disciples said to him, "Master, if he is asleep, he will be saved." 13But Jesus was talking about his death, while they thought that he meant ordinary sleep.f 14So then Jesus said to them clearly, "Lazarus has died. 15And I am glad for you that I was not there, that you may believe. Let us go to him." 16So Thomas, called Didymus,* said to his fellow disciples, "Let us also go to die with him."g
17When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days. 18Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, only about two miles* away. 19And many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them about their brother.h 20When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went to meet him; but Mary sat at home. 21Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.i 22[But] even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you." 23Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise." 24Martha said to him, "I know he will rise, in the resurrection on the last day."j 25Jesus told her, "I am the resurrection and the life; whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live,k 26and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?" 27* l She said to him, "Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one who is coming into the world."
28When she had said this, she went and called her sister Mary secretly, saying, "The teacher is here and is asking for you." 29As soon as she heard this, she rose quickly and went to him. 30For Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was still where Martha had met him. 31So when the Jews who were with her in the house comforting her saw Mary get up quickly and go out, they followed her, presuming that she was going to the tomb to weep there. 32When Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said to him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died." 33When Jesus saw her weeping and the Jews who had come with her weeping, he became perturbed* and deeply troubled, 34and said, "Where have you laid him?" They said to him, "Sir, come and see." 35And Jesus wept.m 36So the Jews said, "See how he loved him." 37But some of them said, "Could not the one who opened the eyes of the blind man have done something so that this man would not have died?"
38So Jesus, perturbed again, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lay across it. 39Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the dead man's sister, said to him, "Lord, by now there will be a stench; he has been dead for four days." 40Jesus said to her, "Did I not tell you that if you believe you will see the glory of God?" 41So they took away the stone. And Jesus raised his eyes and said, "Father,* I thank you for hearing me. 42I know that you always hear me; but because of the crowd here I have said this, that they may believe that you sent me."n 43And when he had said this, he cried out in a loud voice,* "Lazarus, come out!" 44The dead man came out, tied hand and foot with burial bands, and his face was wrapped in a cloth. So Jesus said to them, "Untie him and let him go."
Session of the Sanhedrin. 45Now many of the Jews who had come to Mary and seen what he had done began to believe in him.o 46But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. 47So the chief priests and the Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, "What are we going to do? This man is performing many signs.p 48If we leave him alone, all will believe in him, and the Romans will come* and take away both our land and our nation." 49q But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year,* said to them, "You know nothing, 50nor do you consider that it is better for you that one man should die instead of the people, so that the whole nation may not perish." 51He did not say this on his own, but since he was high priest for that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation, 52and not only for the nation, but also to gather into one the dispersed children of God.* 53So from that day on they planned to kill him.r
54So Jesus no longer walked about in public among the Jews, but he left for the region near the desert, to a town called Ephraim,* and there he remained with his disciples.
The Last Passover. 55Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up from the country to Jerusalem before Passover to purify* themselves.s 56They looked for Jesus and said to one another as they were in the temple area, "What do you think? That he will not come to the feast?" 57For the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, he should inform them, so that they might arrest him.
* [11:1–44] The raising of Lazarus, the longest continuous narrative in John outside of the passion account, is the climax of the signs. It leads directly to the decision of the Sanhedrin to kill Jesus. The theme of life predominates. Lazarus is a token of the real life that Jesus dead and raised will give to all who believe in him. Johannine irony is found in the fact that Jesus' gift of life leads to his own death. The story is not found in the synoptics, but cf. Mk 5:21 and parallels; Lk 7:11–17. There are also parallels between this story and Luke's parable of the rich man and poor Lazarus (Lk 16:19–31). In both a man named Lazarus dies; in Luke, there is a request that he return to convince his contemporaries of the need for faith and repentance, while in John, Lazarus does return and some believe but others do not.
* [11:4] Not to end in death: this is misunderstood by the disciples as referring to physical death, but it is meant as spiritual death.
* [11:10] The light is not in him: the ancients apparently did not grasp clearly the entry of light through the eye; they seem to have thought of it as being in the eye; cf. Lk 11:34; Mt 6:23.
* [11:16] Called Didymus: Didymus is the Greek word for twin. Thomas is derived from the Aramaic word for twin; in an ancient Syriac version and in the Gospel of Thomas (80:11–12) his given name, Judas, is supplied.
* [11:18] About two miles: literally, "about fifteen stades"; a stade was 607 feet.
* [11:27] The titles here are a summary of titles given to Jesus earlier in the gospel.
* [11:33] Became perturbed: a startling phrase in Greek, literally, "He snorted in spirit," perhaps in anger at the presence of evil (death).
* [11:41] Father: in Aramaic, "abba". See note on Mk 14:36.
* [11:43] Cried out in a loud voice: a dramatization of Jn 5:28; "the hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice."
* [11:48] The Romans will come: Johannine irony; this is precisely what happened after Jesus' death.
* [11:49] That year: emphasizes the conjunction of the office and the year. Actually, Caiaphas was high priest A.D. 18–36. The Jews attributed a gift of prophecy, sometimes unconscious, to the high priest.
* [11:52] Dispersed children of God: perhaps the "other sheep" of Jn 10:16.
* [11:54] Ephraim is usually located about twelve miles northeast of Jerusalem, where the mountains descend into the Jordan valley.
* [11:55] Purify: prescriptions for purity were based on Ex 19:10–11, 15; Nm 9:6–14; 2 Chr 30:1–3, 15–18.
a. [11:1–2] 12:1–8; Lk 10:38–42; 16:19–31.
d. [11:9–10] 12:35; 1 Jn 2:10.
j. [11:24] 5:29; 6:39–40, 44, 54; 12:48; Is 2:2; Mi 4:1; Acts 23:8; 24:15.
k. [11:25] 5:24; 8:51; 14:6; Dn 12:2.
p. [11:47] 12:19; Mt 26:3–5; Lk 22:2; Acts 4:16.
r. [11:53] 5:18; 7:1; Mt 12:14.
s. [11:55] 2:13; 5:1; 6:4; 18:28; Ex 19:10–11, 15; Nm 9:6–14; 19:12; Dt 16:6; 2 Chr 30:1–3, 15–18.
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1. Fresh sheets. Slipping my feet into fresh, crisp sheets makes me go "Ahhhhhh!" every time. It's one of the high points of my Friday evening (Friday is my cleaning day where I change all the sheets). If the sheets have been dried on my clothesline it's even better. If the sheets have been changed by my own personal maid that's how I know I've died and gone to heaven.
2. Pasta. Any kind, any style, any shape. Well no, I take that back. One time Andrew and I went out to dinner at The Marx Brothers' Cafe and noticed squid ink pasta on the menu. What?? I was tempted to pester the waiter with questions like "What on earth would squid ink pasta look like? Are we talking black noodles here?" but I thought that would be too, too gauche and I refrained. Anyone have experience with this stuff?
3. Finding change in my pocket. Boy, if I reach into my pocket and find some money I forgot was there it's like I've won the lottery. A very small lottery.
4. A good pair of jeans. These babies are so hard to come by that if I find a pair I like it's like finding the Holy Grail of clothing. Currently, I'm in between relationships with my jeans, I've worn out several pairs that I liked but can't seen to find others to take their place. Maybe I'm saving up for a pair of Sevens. Yea, maybe . . .
5. Fire. I know I'm not the only one who finds a fire hypnotic but boy do I love sitting next to one. It's the part of camping that I like and I can sit up very late gazing at the flames. Since we've put in our new gas fireplace I now have my new Special Spot in my big leather chair which I slide in front of the fireplace, put my feet up and read or blog till someone makes me get up. You know, for like fixing meals and things like that. "Not right now kids, Mommy's blogging!"
6. Opera. It's not as if I listen to opera all the time, you know I can rock with the best of them (Have you seen the ads for the new IMAX movie U23D? I'm dying to see it) but opera holds a special place in my heart. My favorite is La Nozze di Figaro but you should hear me screeching along with Pavarotti when he belts out an Verdi or Puccini aria, it's . . . um . . . memorable.
Here's one of my favorites, it's from The Pearl Fishers by Bizet:
7. Warm summer nights. Growing up in Alaska my body has been trained to equate darkness with cold. It's only dark in the winter here so when I went to school out of state and walked around campus on a dark, warm summer night it was the oddest experience--but I loved it. Summer nights, where things smell warm and green, are just heavenly and if I can get a thunderstorm in there too it's just a bonus. Love those warm nights.
8. Classic movies. Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, Cary Grant, Gary Cooper--I love old movies. My Mom and grandmother trained me well and raised me to appreciate classic cinema--I could talk your ear off about some of my favorites. I've got Andrew to watch quite a few with me, though he prefers Manly Movies like Bridge on the River Kwai, The Guns of Navarone, The Dirty Dozen, etc. Roman Holiday isn't really his thing.
9. The national anthem. This is kind of funny I guess, but I just love hearing "The Star-Spangled Banner." It's not as if I'm hugely patriotic, though I like to think I'm a good citizen and all that, but I like the sound of this song, what it does to people and the emotions it brings. Have you ever heard the words to the second or third verses? Quite stirring, you should look it up.
10. Seashells. I'm not sure why but seashells fascinate me. I can't see one on a beach without picking it up and saving it consequently I have baskets and bowls of seashells stashed around the house that I can't bear to give up. When we head to Florida next month we're going to Sanibel Island which is reported to have the second-best shelling beach in the world. THE WORLD PEOPLE. I'm going to be all over that--"We're going to need a bigger bucket!"
11. Travel. Everyone has their guilty pleasures and though I'm not really into fancy cars or big houses or expensive gadgets (with the exception of the new Macbook Airs, I could be very much into those) but if I had something that I'd spend money on it would be travel. By plane, car, boat or train it doesn't matter I just love to see new places and enjoy the experience travel has to offer. There aren't too many places I'm not interested in seeing some day--except maybe Greenland. I could live my life without going to Greenland. I made a list of places I want to see here and it hasn't changed much.
12. Dressing up. If you saw this list of things I won't wear I have to say that I do love dressing up--nylons, slips, jewelry, high heels, the whole bit. Some people don't like having to be squished into formal wear but I quite like the feeling of getting all gussied up (gussied? Is that still a word?) and going out. Dresses are pretty, I love silky fabrics and flowing lines, and my legs look better in heels--it's just a great thing all around. Plus there's always an anticipation when you put on your best clothes to go out.
13. Newborn babies. I don't want this to sound weird or anything but I LOVE everything about newborns. The smell of their little necks, the way their hands are wrapped up in those long sleeved t-shirts, the way they scrunch up their little froggy legs, their little tiny faces, hands and feet. Though I'm not a woman who goes crazy for children or babies normally--they tend to be too darn moist for my taste--a newborn can get me every time. Maybe it's because they aren't big enough to have runny noses, nasty diapers and serious spew capacity. Though I've seen plenty of older babies that aren't exactly . . . um . . . cute I've never seen a newborn that wasn't adorable. Really. I can't help but stick my nose in their little wrinkly necks and smooch away. Even their diapers don't offend me--okay now I sound weird.
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Baku-APA. President Barack Obama set aside the Middle East's tricky politics Saturday to marvel at the beauty of one of the region's most stunning sites, the fabled ancient city ofPetra, APA reports quoting AP.
"This is pretty spectacular," he said, craning his neck to gaze up at the rock faces after emerging from a narrow pathway into a sun-splashed plaza in front of the grand Treasury. The soaring facade is considered the masterpiece of the ancient city carved into the rose-red stone by the Nabataeans more than 2,000 years ago.
Obama's turn as tourist capped a four-day visit to the Middle East that included stops in Israel and the West Bank, as well Jordan. The White House set low policy expectations for the trip, and the president was returning to Washington with few tangible achievements to show. Aides said his intention instead was to reassure the region's politicians and people — particularly in Israel — that he is committed to their security and prosperity.
Curious residents and picture-taking tourists lined the streets of modern Petra as Obama's motorcade wound toward the entrance to the ancient city. The president, dressed in khaki pants, a black jacket and hiking boots, began his walking tour at the entrance to the Siq, a narrow, winding gorge cutting between two soaring cliffs.
The path opened into a dusty plaza with the massive columned Treasury as its centerpiece. Obama declared the carved monument is "amazing."
The Bedouins named the building the Treasury because they believed that urns sculpted on top of it contained great treasures. In reality, the urns represented a memorial for Nabataean royalty. Over time, historians have disagreed on the Treasury's purpose. However, a recent excavation proved that a graveyard exists underneath it.
The Nabataeans established Petra as a crucial junction for trade routes linking China, India and southern Arabia with Egypt, Syria, Greece and Rome. The city flourished until trade routes were redirected in the seventh century, leading to Petra's demise.
Petra is Jordan's most popular tourist attraction, drawing more than a half million visitors yearly since 2007. It may be familiar to many people who saw the 1989 movie, "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade." Some scenes were filmed in the ancient city.
High winds and overcast skies nearly grounded Marine One, the presidential helicopter, in the Jordanian capital of Amman, which would have forced Obama to scrap the tourist stop. But the weather cleared enough for him and his delegation to make the hour-long flight across Jordan's rugged landscape, arriving in Petra under bright sunshine.
The president departed Jordan after the tour and was due back in Washington late Saturday.


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After a decades-long absence, interest in demonic possession—and the ritual to defeat it—is on the rise.
For more than a decade, Frank, a software consultant who lives near Silicon Valley, California has been haunted by depression and rage. Searching for remedies to lift his dark mood, Frank, 52, tried pills, therapy, even channeling spirits. Nothing worked.
Three years ago, his wife handed him a book about demonic possession. Written by a former priest active in charismatic Catholic circles, the book presented scriptural arguments for the existence of demons and offered advice to questions such as, "How do we know if an evil spirit is really present?" and "How do I pray for deliverance?" Desperate for relief, Frank decided, while jogging one night, to pray for deliverance.
"If I had known what was going to happen, I would have picked a more private place," Frank says.
After reciting the recommended prayer, he doubled over, dry heaving, by the side of the road. His lungs felt like they were leaping out of his chest.
With a doctorate in astrophysics, Frank (not his real name) considers himself a man of science who relies on research and analysis to make sense of the world. Despite the occult overtones, his body's violent reaction to the deliverance prayer struck him as an obvious case of cause and effect. He became convinced that he—like the poor souls he'd just read about—was infested with evil spirits.
After reading more books about demonic possession, Frank, a lapsed Catholic at the time, asked around for a priest who might be willing to exorcize him.
In a way Frank was fortunate. Exorcism is experiencing a renaissance in American Catholicism. There are more exorcists in the United States now than at any other time in modern history, according to experts. More than 100 bishops and priests met in Baltimore last November to recruit dozens more.
So Frank didn't have to look far to find Father Gary Thomas, a gregarious priest in Saratoga, California, a small city on the western slope of Silicon Valley.
In addition to pastoral duties at Sacred Heart Parish, Thomas is the official exorcist for the Diocese of San Jose. He has also become the public face of Catholic exorcism in America, with the book and movie versions of The Rite (Doubleday), based on his training as an exorcist in Rome.
Frank sat for an hour-long exam conducted by a psychiatrist on Thomas' "exorcism team," who concluded that Frank was not suffering from mental illness.
Thomas next prayed over Frank, during which Frank's face contorted into a wide yawn. This was interpreted as a sign of his indwelling demons' aversion to the sacred—a criterion of possession dating to 1614.
Thomas emphasizes the rarity of possession, noting that he has only exorcized five people in five years. More than 80 percent of the people who come to him need therapy, not an exorcist, he says.
What Thomas does not mention is that four of the people he has exorcized gave up midway through the process—frustrated by their lack of improvement. The fifth is Frank, who drives to Sacred Heart for exorcism once every five months and has done so for two and a half years.
Cases like Frank's pose predicaments not only for exorcists such as Thomas, but also for other priests, laity, and mental health professionals.
Thomas encourages Frank to seek psychiatric help in addition to the exorcisms. But aside from two annual visits to a psychiatrist who prescribes his antidepressant, Frank refuses medical and psychological attention. He tried that, he says, and it didn't help. Exorcism has.
"I have a sense of progress," Frank says. "I feel better about life. I'm hoping it won't take a whole lot longer to finish."
As interest in exorcism rises, the church faces a host of tricky questions. Is the rite an outdated remedy best left to history? Or can it be effective alongside modern medical and psychological treatment? And why are bishops—who are leading a church plagued by emptying schools, vanishing vocations, and a sex abuse scandal that won't go away—investing their limited time and resources to train exorcists?
Demonic obsession
Dormant for centuries at a time, exorcism tends to awaken when the church confronts significant crises, says Nancy Caciola, a history scholar at the University of California-San Diego.
Portable manuals detailing ever more elaborate and standardized rituals of exorcism proliferated during the papal schism of the 15th century, when two men claimed to be the rightful pope. The manuals surfaced again during the Protestant Reformation.
"In general, exorcisms are associated with these turning-point moments when the church [feels] challenged in some way and tries to centralize power and clarify the delegation of authority from God down through the hierarchy," Caciola says.
The challenges now confronting the Catholic Church in the United States are legion: the sex abuse scandal, a secularizing society, and a restive flock that, studies show, loses one out of three adult Catholics, to name just a few.
Exorcism reasserts the relevance of the church and its inimitable power over human destiny. Who else is going to help when the devil comes for you?
Pope John Paul II, who is rumored to have performed several exorcisms, frequently warned Catholics that Satan is very real and very dangerous.
In a similar vein, Pope Benedict XVI praised a group of Italian exorcists in 2005, saying, "I encourage you to pursue your important ministry in the service of the church, sustained by the vigilant attention of your bishop and the unending prayers of the Christian community."
In the latter half of John Paul's papacy, the number of official exorcists in the United States ballooned from one to 19, according to sociologist Michael Cuneo. The number has grown to about 30 under Benedict. Many of the new exorcists are theologically conservative priests chosen by like-minded bishops who share the late pontiff's belief that the church is battling cosmic forces of evil.
That exalted view undoubtedly appeals to men whose professional and spiritual identities have been sullied by the clergy sex abuse scandal. Thomas and others believe the priesthood will require years, even generations, to recover.
"The effects of what happened in 2002 are far more dramatic now," says Thomas, who is 57 but has the vitality of a younger man. "It's like when you have an earthquake and all the buildings fall, and then you've got to repair them. The aftermath is far more arduous."
In rebuilding the priesthood's reputation, many younger clergy are drawn to old stones—wearing long cassocks, celebrating the Mass in Latin, reciting pre-Vatican II devotionals, and performing exorcisms, a rite that places priests in the role of hero rather than scapegoat.
"It's a selective return to the past," says Precious Blood Father Robert Schreiter, a theologian at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. "A lot of it, indeed, is intended to create a distinctive identity—a sense of the church as over and against the world."
Apocalypse now
Interest in exorcism also trends with apocalyptic prognostications, Caciola says. As the world spins closer to its end, demonic power grows stronger, sucking in more human victims, according to some readings of scripture. Watching the nightly news during these last few years may be enough to convince some contemporary Catholics that the end is indeed nigh.
"I think we're living in apocalyptic times, I really do," Thomas says. "The economy, the scandals in the church, and all these other tsunamis of events—I don't think this is just a coincidence."
Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois convened the conference on exorcism last November.
The bishop, who chairs the bishops' committee on governance and canon law, does not view the renewed interest in exorcism as part of a conservative campaign. "We certainly didn't sit down as a group and say, 'How can we recover the fundamentals? Hey, let's do exorcism!' " he says.
Rather, the reason for the interest is that Catholics are clamoring for it, and the church does not have enough exorcists to meet the demand.
While full possession is extremely rare, lesser forms of diabolical harassment, which the church calls "oppression" or "vexation," are on the rise, according to Paprocki.
"People are falling away from organized religion, dabbling in their own spiritual paths or following no religion at all. That opens a door for the devil to come in and get involved with their lives," he says.
For several years, Paprocki has heard grumbles from exorcists about their heavy workload. "In some ways, it's not fair to them," he says.
Since the release in the last two years of The Rite, Thomas says that 40 people call or e-mail him each month claiming to be possessed and seeking his help.
The goal of the Baltimore meeting was to convince each of the country's 195 dioceses to appoint priests equipped to handle inquiries about demonic possession. "It's not so much performing exorcisms, it's the screening that's so time consuming," Paprocki says.
The bishop hopes that the attendance of 66 priests and 56 bishops at his exorcism conference is a sign that help is on the way.
Gang warfare
The Rolling Stones are wrong. The devil doesn't hope you guess his name, and neither do his fellow fallen angels.
Close to two dozen demons have "oppressed" Frank, according to Thomas. That means Frank's body and soul are under attack but have not fallen completely under the devil's sway, as occurs during full possession.
"Demons don't travel alone," Thomas says. "They travel in packs called gangs, and you have to get their name to get rid of them." Frank and Thomas say they have spent the last two and a half years trying to get the demons to surrender their names, and then exorcizing them one by one.
Like many features of exorcism, the idea of nomenclature as power dates to Jesus. In Mark 5:1-20, Jesus asks for demons' names ("Legion," comes the answer), then sends them into a herd of swine. Each of the synoptic gospels tells of exorcisms performed by Jesus, who directed his disciples to cast out demons in his name. He neglected to provide detailed instructions.
Over the course of centuries, the Catholic Church steadily filled that void, elaborating its rite of exorcism and proscribing who could perform it. At one time, anyone—even women—could exorcize demons. Now, only duly appointed priests with express permission from their bishop are allowed.
Father Jeffrey Grob, the official exorcist for the Archdiocese of Chicago, says the church has issued the expanded directives to curb abuses by charlatans who used exorcism to make money or attack enemies.
During widespread witch-hunts in Europe during the late Middle Ages, demons were thought to be hiding beneath each rock (or within each bosom), argues Grob, whose 2006 doctoral dissertation detailed the rite's history. Women felt the brunt of the suspicion, and covens of alleged witches were persecuted, tortured, and murdered by zealous exorcists.
"The best the church could do was to regulate more closely the use of exorcism and keep a closer watch over those who practiced it," Grob writes. "Eventually only exorcistic formulas that had long been in use were allowed, and more complex requirements and conditions were placed on the exorcist himself."
The Spirit vs. spirits
Most recently the Vatican has trained its sights on charismatic Catholics, whose emergence in the 1970s brought newfound attention to exorcism. Together with the charismatic movement, exorcism has flourished in African and Latin American countries where belief in spirits—evil and otherwise—is widespread.
In some ways charismatic Catholics' Pentecostal-style "deliverance ministries" hew closer to first-century exorcism than the church's modern-day rite. They use simple verbal formulas and blame a host of afflictions on diabolical forces. They believe the power to banish demons is imparted not by bishops but through the Holy Spirit.
Though influenced by Pentecostalism, charismatic Catholics tend to be more circumspect about exorcism than Pentecostals, some of whom use mass healing ceremonies to "deliver" sufferers from the demons of lust, drug addiction, and—most controversially—homosexuality.
Still, charismatic exorcists are self-appointed and often base their diagnoses on quick impressions, rather than careful diagnosis, Schreiter of Catholic Theological Union, says.
The Vatican noticed the increase of deliverance ministries, particularly in Africa and Italy, and instructed bishops to crack down.
"Bishops are asked to guard lest those who lack the required power attempt to lead assemblies in which prayers are employed to obtain liberation from demons," the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, whose head at the time was the future Pope Benedict, wrote in 1985. The Vatican repeated the warning in 2000.
The risks posed by charismatic Catholics pale in comparison to the challenges presented by medical science. Not since the witch-hunts has the legitimacy of exorcism been so under attack, according to Grob.
"From the positive viewpoint, psychologists and psychiatrists informed and helped to integrate exorcism in a modern world, but from a negative one, they called into question the credibility of exorcism as a means of restoring health," he writes.
The devil made me do it
The Roman ritual cautions exorcists to use "extreme circumspection and prudence" and not perform the rite unless they know with "moral certainty" that a person is possessed. It also warns against mistaking mental illness for demonic influence.
"To too readily go to that explanation (of demonic possession) and, therefore, treatment for what can otherwise be explained as mental illness, carries serious risk," says Father John Cecero, a psychology professor at Fordham University.
In cases of serious mental illness, lack of medical treatment can lead sufferers to commit suicide, to harm others, or to die the slow death of self-neglect, he says.
In deference to those concerns, some priest-exorcists, such as Thomas, employ "exorcism teams" that include psychiatrists, psychologists, and physicians.
Grob breaks mental health professionals down into three categories: Those who believe in exorcism, those who think it could have a placebo effect, and those who think it's a crock.
Dr. Richard Gallagher, a professor of clinical psychiatry at New York Medical College, falls into the first category. The only American on the governing board of the Rome-based International Association of Exorcists, Gallagher has for the last 25 years assisted exorcists throughout the United States by screening people who say they are possessed and evaluating them for mental health afflictions.
Gallagher is careful to note that he does not diagnose demonic possession. That's the priest's job. He just rules out medical causes for the patient's poor condition.
"Most priests are well-educated and on the skeptical side, and that's good," says Gallagher. "A large percentage of people I see do turn out to have psychiatric problems."
Among the psychiatric disorders most commonly confused with possession are schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, personality disorders, and dissociative identity disorder, formerly referred to as multiple personality disorder.
Possession itself is not in any of the standard diagnostic manuals. Nor should it be, says Gallagher. "It's a spiritual disorder, not a psychiatric disorder," he says.
Fight for the rite
But possession could, in a way, make it into an upcoming edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, according to Dr. Roberto Lewis-Fernandez, who is part of a team updating the manual.
Lewis-Fernandez, a professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University, proposes including "possession trance" as a category of dissociative identity disorder in the volume. Possession trances, like dissociative identity disorder, are marked by the feeling that one's usual self has been hijacked by internal or external forces, and afterwards, retaining little memory of the experience.
The entry would not address whether the external forces are "real or unreal" and would distinguish between stressful trance states such as demonic possession and more positive religious experiences, such as being "slain" by the Holy Spirit, Lewis-Fernandez says.
Treating possession trance disorder could include exorcisms. "As long as it's done by a sensitive human and doesn't do violence, it could work," he says.
Gallagher says he has seen exorcisms work in scores of cases. But the church has only anecdotal evidence of the rite's effectiveness. While it has tried to put responsible limits on the use of exorcism, it has never publicly studied how often it's performed, where, and by whom.
In previous eras, even suggesting a scientific study of exorcism would get you laughed out of the room. But a growing number of psychiatrists such as Lewis-Fernandez profess a willingness to incorporate religious beliefs in medical treatment. Academics in the mental health professions might some day be tapped by the church to empirically study exorcism's capacity to heal.
Cuneo, the sociologist, has argued that the recent interest in exorcism is part of America's quick-fix, pop psychology, pass-the-blame, no-pain-please culture.
But Frank describes his experiences with exorcism as neither quick nor painless.
Each session, he spends an hour and a half screaming and thrashing in a church confessional. His face contorts, his throat growls, his stomach throws up, his body strains to punch a wall.
"At the end, I feel like I've been hit by a truck. My voice hurts from screaming like a stuck pig, and I'm drenched in sweat," he says.
Despite his physical exhaustion, a peaceful sensation pervades Frank after each exorcism.
Then the feeling fades.
This article appeared in the June 2011 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 76, No. 6, pages 12-17).
Image: Illustration by Tom Keating


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Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals…except the weasel. You know, the one with all the well meaning rules that don't work out in real life, uh, Christianity. Bart, with $10,000 we'd be millionaires! We could buy all kinds of useful things like…love! Son, when you participate in sporting events, it's not whether you win or lose: it's how drunk you get. Inflammable means flammable? What a country.


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