A disturbing trend emerged during the annual conference of priests who specialize in the practice of exorcism from unfortunate people.
Speaking to researchers at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum, the Catholic Church’s educational institute, the 120 exorcists who attended the event expressed serious concern about how they would cope with the sheer volume of cases of possession they currently face. Some of them said that they receive 30 to 50 such messages a day.
In the face of such a monstrous amount of work, the exorcists called on the Catholic Church to provide them with additional resources, in particular, to provide them with the services of psychologists to determine whether a person is really possessed or suffering from a mental illness.
One priest who encountered this problem described how he was forced to bring in such a specialist himself when the young woman’s parents disagreed about what led her to attack a group of monks and hurl insults at them in Latin.
He noted that
it was eventually determined that the woman was possessed and she was
freed from the demon after an arduous nine-hour exorcism....<<<Read More>>>...
