Further, it should be pointed out that Father Amorth must be regarded as an uncertain authority at best. In an April 2001 Article of the Sunday Telegraph, Father Amorth is quoted as saying, “I have performed over 50,000 exorcisms.” (This article may be found at
web.archive.org/web/20041106024653/http://www.catholic-exorcism.org/pages/suntelegraph/suntelegraph.html) On other occasions, the Priest has claimed to have performed 30,000. This point alone places doubt on the man’s trustworthiness. In the same article, Father Amorth says that he “knew nothing of exorcism” until June 6, 1986. Given that this article was published in 2001, it is possible to determine that all of the exorcisms he has ever performed took place over the course of 15 years (this does not even take into consideration that Father Amorth most likely did not perform many exorcisms during his early years of learning, such as 1986, 87, and 88). Over 15 years, there are 5,475 days (excluding leap years). This would require, therefore, that Father Amorth performed 9 exorcisms per day over that course of time! The Priest himself goes on to claim, as do most exorcists, that many exorcisms actually require months or years of treatments to complete. This further compounds the problem. In fact, normally, most diocese only see a few exorcisms per YEAR (for which common knowledge and Father James J. Lebar of the Archdiocese of New York serve as sources), which makes Amorth’s claims incredibly and unbelieveably outrageous.
