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Evil is not just a lack, but an active presence,

a person who is alive, spiritual, depraved and a depraver.

He is the wicked one, a mysterious and terrifying reality.

Whoever refuses to acknowledge his existence or thinks of him

as an autonomous principle not created by God like every other being,

as a symbolic reality, a conceptual personification

concocted to explain the unknown causes for our troubles,

is automatically separated from what the Bible and the Church teach.

Saint Paul VI, General Audience of Nov. 15, 1972

They wanted and still want us to believe that the Devil is a myth,

a figure, an idea, the idea of evil,

but the Devil exists and we have to fight him.

Pope Francis, Homily at Saint Martha’s, Oct. 30, 2014