I am completely fascinated by this statement from the new Pope, concerning the legalization of same-sex marriage: “...a machination of the Father of Lies that seeks to confuse and deceive the children of God.” From my standpoint, this seems to support all I have been trying to affirm about the inherent demonic influence upon the modern homosexual mind-set; i.e. the belief that homosexuality is natural, and even a preferred state of being, that same-sex unions are equatable to heterosexual ones. It's all a huge satanic lie. Interestingly, the statement by Pope Francis I is supported by a long history of Saints (hence, the unbroken phenomena of continuity within the Catholic Church) who tied the disordered desire for homosexual relations with that of the demonic:
Saint John Chrysostom:“The sins against nature are more difficult and less rewarding, since true pleasure is only the one according to nature. But when God abandons a man, everything is turned upside down! Therefore, not only are their passions [of the homosexuals] satanic, but their lives are diabolic…”
St. Peter Damian:“This vice expels one from the choir of the ecclesiastical host and obliges one to join the energumens [a person possessed by an evil spirit] and those who work in league with the devil; it separates the soul from God and links it with the demons.”
St. Catherine of Siena:“Like the blind and stupid, having dimmed the light of their understanding, they do not recognize the disease and misery in which they find themselves. For this not only causes me nausea, but displeases even the demons themselves, whom these miserable creatures have chosen as their lords.”