Don’t argue with the Devil, he’s too clever, warns Pope

THE Devil is more intelligent than mere mortals and should never be argued with, Pope Francis has warned.

Satan is not a metaphor or a nebulous concept but a real person armed with dark powers, the Pope said in forthright remarks made during a television interview.

“He is evil, he’s not like mist. He’s not a diffuse thing, he is a person. One must never converse with Satan – if you do that, you’ll be lost,” he told TV2000, a Catholic channel. “He’s more intelligent than us. He always pretends to be polite, that’s how he enters your mind, but it ends badly if you don’t realise what is happening in time. [We should tell him] go away!”

Three years ago, Pope Francis told a global convention of exorcists that they were doing a sterling job in combating “the Devil’s works”.