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Catholic Exorcist Points Finger at Vatican
You don’t often hear about the Exorcists of the Vatican, but recently Father Gabriel Amorth began pointing his finger. He’s been the chief Exorcist of the church for the past 25 years with more than 70,000 cases of possession under his belt. He insinuates the Devil having infiltrated into the Vatican with evidence being internal violence, pedophilia and other cover-ups. Amorth further goes on to describe the film The Exorcist as exaggerated, but an otherwise exact representation of the possessions he has encountered where he says all sorts of things spew forth from the victims, “Anything can come out of their mouths – finger-length pieces of iron, but also rose petals.” Naturally, his comments have not sat well with the Vatican.
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Catholic Exorcist by JyroBritanniac
Interesting read.
Out of curiosity what is the agnostic and atheist spin on people being possessed and exorcisms being performed?
Busy guy by scottb
Seventy thousand exorcisms in twenty-five years. Really?
If he worked eight hours a day, five days a week, fifty weeks a year, as one would on a production line, it means he averaged two exorcisms every hour, including travel time and cleaning up the pea soup.
Or, looked at another way, it’s twenty-eight hundred exorcisms each year—if a team of six (one exorcist and five assistants to hold ‘em down as needed) can do two of these a week, with travel time and such, you’d need
if each one took one day, with a staff of six (five to hold down the unruly subject, plus the exorcist), that’s more than fifteen thousand man-days of resource each year. You’d have to have almost thirty full-time dedicated teams under his control.
Seems a little bit of a stretch to me.