What happens in Louisiana doesn't stay in Louisiana
Politics and Religion
Andrew Sullivan, in the Daily Dish tells us that one of his readers informs him
You may not realize that what [Bobby]Jindal [the Governor of Lousiana] did is strictly forbidden to Catholic laity.
The Catholic Church takes the possibility of demonic possession very seriously, [and] decrees the following in Canon 1172 of the Code of Canon Law (1983):
Can. 1172: §1 No one may lawfully exorcise the possessed without the special and express permission of the local Ordinary.
§2 This permission is to be granted by the local Ordinary only to a priest who is endowed with piety, knowledge, prudence and integrity of life.
One wonders if any of the ultramontane crowd at The New Oxford Review bothered to ask Jindal if he had such permission or criticized him severely if it did not.
I love Dish readers. They seem to know everything.
Well, no, but we learn everything from reading your postings.
My name is Dan Porter. I have always believed in God. And I have always been a Christian, which means I have always believed, at some level of understanding, Christian assertions about Christ. But during all of my adult life—I am now 65—I have struggled with many seeds of doubt brought on by modern science, objective history, the question of why a loving God would allow so much suffering in the world and difficulties with seemingly conflicting moral precepts. 
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