Dear Marie:

Only goodness comes from God. Thus, all material evil (tornados, floods, illness, death) came from the Satan not because of himself, but because our parents, Adam and Eve, through their Original Sin, allowed Satan to enter human history and to bring with him material evil as well as moral evil as a consequence.

Weather disasters, illness, and death are called "material evil" because Satan is not directly involved, but these things are a result, a consequence, of Original Sin, which is the fault of Adam and Eve.

Reading from, A Catholic Dictionary (ed. Donald Attwater, Tan Books, p. 18o), material evil is defined as:

Those physical, mental, or social conditions, regarded in themselves and without reference to their possible origin in the personal sins of men, which are the cause of pain and suffering, e.g., Disease, poverty, unemployment, war.

What this means is that Satan is not the proximate or immediate cause of a tornado, flood, or illness. Rather, these events are a "consequence" of Original Sin. While demons can bring illness as seen in the Bible, most illness have nothing to do with demons directly.

If illness meant that we are demonized, we would all be demonized because all people fall sick at times. Sickness is the consequence of Original Sin, that is all.

No, you are not demonized because of your afflictions.

As for judgment, we are to make proper judgments. If a man comes to your door and points a gun to your head, you will judge that he is a criminal wanting to do evil. This is a correct judgment.

We are to judge behavior and ideas. We are not to judge a person's heart and state of soul, nor our we to judge hypocritically or with a double-standard. We cannot judge a person to hell, but we can say that the person's behavior places his soul "on the road tohell" unless he repent.

There is an entire essay on this subject, Three Secret Strategies of Satan, that explains the details on this.

God Bless,
Bro. Ignatius Mary