Note 45 — Chapter VI · Diabolic Possession and Modern Spiritism
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See Wilson, Western Africa; and the article “Possession diabolique” by Waffelaert in the Dictionnaire apologétique de la foi catholique, Paris, 1889. The opinion of the Cistercian Dom Robert de la Trappe (Dr. Pierre-Jean-Corneille Debreyne), who, whilst acknowledging that the demoniac possessions as detailed in the New Testament are de fide, supposes that all other cases are to be attributed to fraud or disease, must be severely censured as regrettably rash and even culpable. Essai sur la théologie morale, IV. p. 356.