Pope Francis And Exorcism: How He's Brought The Practice Back

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It’s not so great when you have amateur exorcists throwing holy water in someone else’s face. It’s bound to anger someone.
 
ProVobis said:
It’s not so great when you have amateur exorcists throwing holy water in someone else’s face. It’s bound to anger someone.
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Not all priests are qualified to be exorcists and NO lay person should attempt exorcism for any reason. Forget the angering someone part; there’s a real danger to the soul of someone prideful enough to belief they can chase out a demon without the full protection of God.:sad_yes:

If anyone is interested in demons in the modern world, I’m reading The Full Armor of God by Larry Richards (no, not the priest Fr. Larry Richards). Interesting focus on St. Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians and how Ephesus was a hotbed of demonic activity.👍
 
McCall1981 said:
I think its great that there has been a renewed emphasis on exorcisms in the Church.
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There should be renewed interest and practice in all the spiritual gifts. We have no idea what we can do, but He knows.
 
If there are demons and they have power to intervene physically in this world I wonder why they don’t do it more often. God must limit their power so I wonder why He allows them to have any power at all?
 
EllisWoods said:
If there are demons and they have power to intervene physically in this world I wonder why they don’t do it more often. God must limit their power so I wonder why He allows them to have any power at all?
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God does limit their power, we cannot be tempted more than we can handle.
 
telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/11533635/Pope-Francis-effect-leads-to-exorcism-boom.html

The “Pope Francis effect” has been credited with encouraging a resurgence in faith among rank-and-file Catholics but it has also had a more unexpected consequence – a boom in the demand for exorcisms.

The Argentinian pontiff’s fire-and-brimstone language and frequent references to the Devil have helped propel belief in Beelzebub back into the mainstream of the Catholic Church, where once it was an embarrassment.

Dioceses in the UK, Italy, Spain and elsewhere have noticed a dramatic increase in the number of people claiming to be possessed and have responded by training more priests in the dark arts of how to perform exorcisms.

A week-long exorcism conference, held this week at the Pontifical University of Regina Apostolorum in Rome and endorsed by the Vatican, is being attended by around 160 Catholic priests from around the world, who insist that demonic possession is very real. >>

(Actually,it was Pope Benedict who began fostering the resurgence of exorcism.)
 
And demand for exorcism is a good thing?

Don’t get me wrong. I know of cases which were brought to the Vatican for examination; perhaps now they decided to go ahead and perform the exorcisms anyway?
 
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