This information is very seldom disclosed to the public.
For certain, the Archdioceses of New York has an exorcist priest. The former was on Mother Angelica Live, years back and he had a replacement.
Oh? Who questioned Father’s credibility?
Truth be told, there were always priests who said minor exorcisms, also known as prayers of deliverance, who had the chrism of liberation from evil spirits. They way some define "exorcist" would preclude Padre Pio being called an exorcist as he never once had his Bishop's mandate to perform an official exorcism.patheos.com/blogs/markshea/2011/11/fr-gabriele-amorth-loose-canon.html
I think it all boils down to the number of exorcisms that he says he has performed. However, each demon cast out is an exorcism and some are possessed by numerous demons. I have spoken with a Priest from Ghana. He did exorcisms but stopped as he got older, due to he physical and mental strain that is involved. He told me that one person in Ghana was possessed by 77 demons, which is the largest number that he personally knows of.
The Book of Job suggests that God may permit Satan to do the kind of things that was done to Job. How can we conclude that God doesn’t care when He allows Satan to torment someone? Job too felt that way initially and in the end when he saw God, this was his spontaneous response: “My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you.Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.” (Job 42:5-6)
Yet, Satan demanded to sift Peter like wheat, and Jesus tdid not prevent it, but rather prayed for Peter’s faith:
Precisely. Note that God limited the devil’s power over Job.
But Job was not demonically possessed. He still has his free will all through his affliction.
Peter fell into sin in denying Jesus, but Satan did not take possession of Peter’s will.
I hope that I did not imply that Peter was possessed. I was trying to address the power of the devil on a broad scope. As to Peter, he was tested like Job, with the Lord’s permission. This also occurred to Tobit. From the Vulgate version of Tobit (12:13):
Normally, one must open a door to possession, but it can occur unknowingly. Possession usually requires flirtation with or active participation in the occult. Cases of active surrender would be relatively few, I would think, yet some remain unexplained. Whether oppressed or possessed, misery is the sure result, but oppression is much more easily addressed.
Supposedly all diocese are supposed to have one. I recommend you read the book The Rite by Matt Baglio. That book is the one that follows the training of Fr. Gary Thomas, and I want to say it mentions how there is an effort to get more priests trained. It might have been in one of his Catholic Answers Radio interviews too. You can check those out here and here
Of for sure it’s out of ignorance and often naivete. A person see’s something as good, such as curbing hunger. However, they get sucked into ideals about combating hunger in a self-serving type of ideal. The devil uses this as a window of opportunity.
Well it can happen to people who dabble in the occult, but in four of the cases in Hostage to the Devil, the people were not involved in the occult. One of the possessed was a Catholic priest. He go into a desire of being popular by teaching feel good theology, rather than Church doctrine. He was one of the more difficult for the exorcist to succeed in the exorcism.
Yeah, New Age Spirituality is a way of the evil one to get hold of a person’s will.
The only light I can shed on this article is on the 9 exorcisms per day.
I pointed this out once in another topic concerning Fr. Amorth and other exorcists. Don’t expect any of Father’s detractors to change their mind about him.
In his book and in his interviews, he said he performed 30,000 exorcisms in a nine year period, not just the rite,