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Demand for Catholic exorcisms reportedly on the rise

Demand for Catholic exorcisms is reportedly rises - though requests are outpacing priests available to perform them. The post ...
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: three evangelicals, an atheist, an ex-nun, and a rootworker walk into an exorcism. Fifty years after William Friedkin’s The Exorcist shocked America, director David ...
A Vatican-approved religious university in Rome held an exorcism course with 120 participants. They said they needed more help distinguishing being possessed from mental illness, per The Times. Pope ...
There are approximately 150 Catholic priests in the United States who practice exorcism, an ancient practice to rid people, places and objects of demonic influence. There is even a protocol for ...
Researchers for the first time are collecting data on the ministry of exorcism. Initial interviews show that many exorcists feel isolated. But a long-running course in Rome is trying to change that.
A bizarre chapter in St. Louis history came to a close on this date 76 years ago, when a teenage boy believed to be possessed ...
Recent stories in the press, based on an erroneous interpretation of the Catholic Church’s teachings on exorcisms and the devil, beg for clarification, says Catholic League president Bill Donohue. In ...
When envisioning an exorcism, most probably see a spinning head, an old priest and a young priest, and lots of projectile vomiting. That, of course, is how it was portrayed in the 1973 movie “The ...
Father Tikhon Kulbaka, a Ukrainian Catholic priest from Lviv and a native of Donetsk who became famous throughout Ukraine after being captured by separatists in 2014, announced the beginning of an ...
About 100 bishops and priests meet to learn about possession. Nov. 14, 2010— -- More than 100 Catholic bishops and priests gathered in Baltimore this weekend for a two-day conference on exorcism, ...
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