I've been doing it all by myself. My grandmother---maiden name Scarzo, knew the priest that performed the actual exorcism that they based the movie "The Exorcist" and resided in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
2007-04-05 20:03:33 · 5 answers · asked by unknownsoldier1st 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2007-04-05 20:14:56 · update #1
No.
2007-04-06 21:46:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Rare but possible?
Give me a break.
There are Catholics who have not received good formation
and doubt the existence of the devil, but this is an article of faith and part of the doctrine of the Catholic Church
They are real and happen. The reason there are so few is because many of those within the Catholic faith, there are many Bishops that no longer believe in the devil or in Hell, in a sense have apostatized. As a result they do not even ask for an excorcist. Those excorcists that do exsist are villified and hated by many within the Vatican ....very sad indeed.
Per Father Amorth (the leading excocist in the world: [Satan's wish is]"To succeed in making people believe that he doesn't exist. And in this he has almost succeeded. Even within the Church. We have a clergy and an episcopate who no longer believe in the devil, in exorcisms, in the extraordinary evil that the devil can cause, nor in the power that Jesus has given us to drive out demons.
For three centuries, the Latin Church - in contrast with the Orthodox Church and various Protestant confessions - has almost entirely abandoned the ministry of exorcism. As the clergy no longer practice exorcisms, as they no longer study them and have never seen them, they no longer believe in them. And nor do they believe in the devil either. We have entire episcopates who are hostile to exorcisms. There are countries in which there is not a single exorcist, as for example Germany, Switzerland, Spain and Portugal. A terrifying deficiency"*
Cardinal Jorge Arturo Medina, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments says a Pope is not required to perform exorcisms... it is not part and parcel of his duties as Pope.
http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/ccdds/index.htm
However John Paul II performed 2 or 3 during his pontificate
http://www.rense.com/general20/pope.htm
2007-04-07 02:45:31 · answer #2 · answered by Michelle_My_Belle 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, most Catholic Priests have never seen, let alone performed exorcisms. Exorcists are very special people, but they are shunned by other priests as necessary evils (no pun intended)
2007-04-06 03:10:54 · answer #3 · answered by ladyk5dragon 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You need the Holy spirit in you to do it and anybody can with his spirit in you and the name of Jesus, but sorry to tell you the pope has never done it or ever will, they are for show not the real thing! Ps. I have been doing it for a while now!
http://www.freedomcame.com/glory/
2007-04-06 03:07:35 · answer #4 · answered by bungyow 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No.
Catholics have been casting out demons ever since Jesus and the Apostles did it.
Modern psychology says that most of the people who had demons cast out of them were probably miraculously cured from schizophrenia and other mental illnesses. But their cures were still miracles.
The Catholic Church believes that real demonic possessions are rare but possible, so they keep a few exorcists around just in case.
With love in Christ.
2007-04-07 01:29:30 · answer #5 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋