The Catholic Church’s top exorcist, Father Gabriele Amorth is calling on Pope Francis to relax current limits on priests performing exorcisms. He insists that the demand of the faithful for exorcisms is rising and the Church needs to increase the supply of the rites. For his own part, Amorth now claims to have sent 160,000 demons to hell — that is over 1818 a year or roughly 5 a day or one demon every 4.8 hours every day every week every month.
Only certain priests are trained in the rite for a formal exorcism under Section 13 of the Rituale Romanum. Amorth wants rank and file priests trained to perform the rite and lift the requirement of approval from church leaders.
Amorth, 88, heads the International Association of Exorcists and promised his fellow exorcists that he “will ask the pope to give all priests the power to carry out exorcisms . . . [since] There’s a huge demand for them.” said Father Amorth.
Amorth also took the time to warn again that the Harry Potter series is the work of the devil and needs to be avoided . . . as well as yoga: “Practicing yoga brings evil as does reading Harry Potter. They may both seem innocuous but they both deal with magic and that leads to evil.”
Now if any of that sounds absolutely crazy to you, you are probably doing too much yoga or watching too many Potter movies.
Source: Christian Post
Prof.,
Just a small quibble on the math issue. Since some demons are Legion, they count as more than one and thus may skew hourly rate number derived from your calculations.
But you can’t go by me. It’s probably the yoga talking.
Your math is wrong. Amorth has been an exorcist for 27 years. 160,000 demon expulsions comes to 16.2 per day.
Father Gabriele Amorth is the man! Seriously, he is the LeBron James of Team Exorcism – no one is going to catch him within our lifetimes.
When do we get the long-needed Amendment establishing Freedom FROM religion?
The priest was also including cats in the demon possession statistics.
Those who engage in Hot Yoga will burn in Hell !
No. You cannot exercise. Only exorcise.
Exorcism: because negative attention is better than no attention at all.
Counseling a pedophile priest doesn’t count in mass assembly…. But Francis is a good choice it appears at present…. And when it comes to the finances…. How long will they let him serve…. Ask John Paul the 1….
The minister @ my wife’s church has written extensively about how this Harry Potter satan preaching is just plain wrong. He’s gotten his share of hate mail.
Mr.ed – thank you, that was a perfect response
No. mr.ed, it’s Holy Crap.
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Sounds like the Vatican Exorcist has a few Demons of his own………..
Fr. Amorth is taking Supernatural too much to heart. It’s only a TV show.
There is a trade association for Exorcists? An international one no less.
I heard that only limited number of old-age priests perform exorcism because the devils sometimes turn back and go after the priest who performed exorcism as retaliation and the priest can suffer death
I need to introduce him to my ex-wife
Wholly crap!
Da deems are in da wordpress … blocking posts ’bout em …
International Association of Exorcists is a Roman Catholic organization that was founded in 1990 [1] by six priests including the world-famous exorcist of Rome, Father Gabriele Amorth and Father Jeremy Davies.
History:
(Wikipedia, “International Association of Exorcists”).
I sense another exorcist movie series in the works.