Ghosts?

[SavedbyHisBlood]

What does the Catholic Church teach about ghosts, poltergists, and Desmond??

Thanks

 

[juliamajor]

What does the Catholic Church teach about ghosts, poltergists, and Desmond??

Thanks

Desmond?Who he? My pastor’s name is Desmond- and yes I believe in him

 

[ljubim]

What does the Catholic Church teach about ghosts, poltergists, and Desmond??

Thanks

Demons?

Basically, if there’s any sort of paranormal bothering going on, it’s a demon. Call it a ghost or whatever you’d like, it’s a demon.

Not to be confused with apparitions of Our Lady and angels, etc. If they’re from heaven, I’ve heard you can tell. Demons lie anyway, and are angry, so that would give them away soon.

I would check out books such as An Exorcist tells his stories(something like that) by Father Amorth, and The Rite by Baglio. And somewhere on the internet is a speech given by Father Euteneuer called “An Evening with an Exorcist” that is really good (he’s one of the biggest exorcists in America).

A bit of advice: when you look into this stuff don’t be scared, demons are really just pathetic little creatures that enjoy causing trouble. They cannot REALLY harm us, maybe just shake us up a bit. We must never forget who we have on our side, who sent those monsters back to hell in droves

 

[MarcoPolo]

Exorcism, ghost, etc… resources:

MP3s
Fr. James LeBar interview. A very good interview as I recall, stories, characteristics…
Fr. Thomas Euteneuer interview. Another good speaker, characteristics…
Fr. Thomas Euteneuer, Exorcism Then And Now interview. Haven’t heard this one.
Matt Baglio, The Making of an Exorcist interview mentioned earlier in the thread. I wasn’t as in to this interview, he followed a priest around in training for exorcism, he gives a few stories, but not a lot of detail as I recall.
Another Fr. Euteneuer, An Evening with an Exorcist. He is always good.

There was an exorcism workshop in early 2008 lead by Fr. Jose Antonio Fortea, done in 4 sessions + Q&A. The first session was a talk by an escapee of the demonic, Moira Noonan. Here are those talks:

Moira Noonan, talks about her involvement with the occult and her rescue, many stories, interesting talk.
Fr. Fortea, talk 1 - all his talks are fascinating. He gives much detail as he familiarizes his audience with the nature of this subject.
Fr. Fortea, talk 2
Fr. Fortea, talk 3
Fr. Fortea, Q&A session

Books
Perhaps the most famous of the works is Fr. Gabriele Amorth’s: An Exorcist Tells His Story, which is chock full of stories, the nature of possession, degrees of, and even includes the text of the rites as I recall. He is Rome’s chief exorcist. He has a sequel which I have yet to read: An Exorcist, More Stories.

Fr. Fortea has a book, An Interview with an Exorcist, which is also on my to-read list.

Moira Noonan, mentioned above, her book: Ransomed from Darkness

And Matt Baglio’s The Rite: The Making of an Exorcist.

Article
Here is an article I’ve referenced before by the aforementioned Fr. Gabriele Amorth, The Real Exorcist. He gives different kinds of possession and some definitions. A good resource.

Video
Betty Brennan, former satanist tells her story.

That should keep you busy for a while.