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The demand for exorcists is at record levels, claims a leading demon-hunter who blames human nature as much as the devil for the trend. Father Chad Ripperger, a Catholic priest in the Archdiocese of ...

Exorcism requests in the U.S. have surged, with Catholic priests like Fr. Vincent Lampert reporting hundreds more per year than in decades past. While many cases are dismissed after psychiatric ...

The devil’s in the detail. Pope Leo XIV hosted the world’s most senior exorcists at the Vatican, who reportedly warned him of a terrifying global rise in “occultism, esotericism, and Satanism.” The ...

Father Chad Ripperger is one of the Roman Catholic Church’s most experienced and well-known exorcists. Originally from Casper ...

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“The Ritual,” with Al Pacino and Dan Stevens as Catholic priests, dramatizes the most thoroughly documented and widely publicized exorcism in American history. For the film’s co-creator and ...

The call for the Catholic ritual of exorcism is reportedly on the rise. According to The Baltimore Sun, requests for exorcisms are increasing, and priests performing the ritual are in greater demand ...

About exorcisms In the Catholic Church, a priest must have the permission of a bishop to perform an exorcism. Blai has seen possessed people ignore a priest who does not have the bishop’s consent and ...

The whole cast and crew of the new exorcism movie were attentive to getting the Catholic elements of the film correct. L to R: Movie poster; Father Aaron Williams, rector of St. Mary Basilica in ...

he isn’t very good at it. According to a Vatican report, the pontiff attempted to exorcise evil spirits from a 19-year-old Italian woman last year, saying the woman “displayed superhuman strength,” ...