Today, Catholic Church experts said there are roughly 150 Catholic priests in the US trained to practice exorcism, a centuries-old ritual intended to rid people of demonic influence or possession.

The call for the Catholic ritual of exorcism is reportedly on the rise. According to The Baltimore Sun, requests for exorcisms are increasing, and priests performing the ritual are in greater demand ...

Tito Edwards Tito Edwards manages Catholic websites for the new evangelization that Pope John Paul II and then Pope Benedict XVI asked for in the third millennium. After a lifetime of living a nominal ...

The Vatican had found the order was carrying out 'unauthorised exorcisms' ...

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Tito Edwards Tito Edwards manages Catholic websites for the new evangelization that Pope John Paul II and then Pope Benedict XVI asked for in the third millennium. After a lifetime of living a nominal ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — The Archbishop of San Francisco performed an exorcism in the city of San Rafael Saturday following vandalism that destroyed a statue of a famed Catholic missionary. The feet are ...

NEW YORK -- Citing a shortage of priests who can perform the rite, the nation's Roman Catholic bishops are holding a conference on how to conduct exorcisms. The two-day training, which ended Saturday ...

We were taken aback last week by the news the Vatican was teaming up with the Discovery Channel for a reality show called The Exorcist Files. Why would the Catholic Church want the network responsible ...

William Peter Blatty, whose fictionalized vision of demonic possession and Catholic exorcism transfixed a great swath of the American public, died on Thursday. In the 1960s he became a novelist and ...