Perhaps because the Pope is Jesuit, the recently elected superior of the Jesuits, Fr Arturo Marcelino Sosa Abascal, is getting rather more attention than many of his predecessors ever did. This is something of a mixed blessing for the Church.
In his latest interview, Fr Sosa claims that "We have formed symbolic figures such as the devil to express evil." It is hard to interpret his words in an orthodox manner: on the face of it, they seem to contradict the Catechism of the Catholic Church, as well as the Holy Scriptures where Jesus Himself talks of Satan as a fallen angel, rather than as a literary construct.
