Catholic exorcism and NYPD "experts on occult crimes"???

[diane_vera]

I recently came across the news story Updated: Vatican steps back from Discovery's 'Exorcist Files' by T.L. Stanley, Los Angeles Times, January 10, 2011, according to which:

"Aside from the priests, experts like Richard Gallagher, a faculty member at Columbia University's Psychoanalytic Institute, will be part of "The Exorcist Files." So will

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ANYTHING DIANE VERA IS FOR I AM AGAINST

[ext_420483]

Diane the devil, Satan, Lucifer etc... is real. Their is enough evidence for those with a will to beleive, never enough for people like you. The truth is the Catholic Church has maintained the catholic rite of exorcism for hundreds of years and has the majisterium of the church to institute that rite. But the fact demonic posession is much different then opression. While Jesus gives the individual the right to invoke his name in seeking to disrupt demonic influence, the Catholic Church wants to ensure that actual demonic posession exists and thats why ony a priest with permission of Bishop is alowed. Deliverence frm opression is what evangelicals and prayer groups do, the heavy lifting is left to the A team...... But Diane, just remember, the best trick the devil ever pulled was convincing ye of little faith tht he does not exist..Then he is free to work any way, through anyone he sees fit, and then people of your ilk will call it things like moral relativity. Lose anything, everything... Just protect your soul. In te end, its al you

history of Catholic rite of exorcism

[diane_vera]

You wrote: "The truth is the Catholic Church has maintained the catholic rite of exorcism for hundreds of years."

But, as even many of the publicly-quoted Catholic exorcists themselves have admitted, the Catholic rite of exorcism fell into disuse during much of the 20th Century. By the 1960's, even many Catholic priests -- even many bishops -- no longer believed in a Devil, and most dioceses did not bother to appoint an exorcist.

Since the 1970's, there has been a gradual revival of the Catholic practice of exorcism. Even then, not until 2005 did any Catholic educational institution offer a course on exorcism.

As for the involvement of Catholic Charismatic deliverance teams in exorcism itself -- ALONG WITH the required priest, of course -- see the relevant quote from Bishop Thomas Paprocki in the National Catholic Register story A Nation and Its Demons, January 29, 2010, as quoted in my Talk To Action post Exorcism and religious intolerance.