Need a Job? Try Exorcism

[marmar]

via truthdig:




Need a Job? Try Exorcism
Posted on Nov 13, 2010


While jobs may be scarce in most parts of the country, look out for a boom in the exorcism sector. A shortage in the number of clergy who can perform the rite has led the U.S. Catholic Church to hold a training session in the sacred art of purging spirits from the possessed. —JCL

The Associated Press:

The two-day training, which ends Saturday in Baltimore, is to outline the scriptural basis of evil, instruct clergy on evaluating whether a person is truly possessed, and review the prayers and rituals that comprise an exorcism. Among the speakers will be Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, archbishop of Galveston-Houston, Texas, and a priest-assistant to New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan.

“Learning the liturgical rite is not difficult,” DiNardo said in a phone interview before the conference, which is open to clergy only. “The problem is the discernment that the exorcist needs before he would ever attempt the rite.”

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[BlueIris]

1. One of my favorite scenes in any film is the one in The Exorcist

when, after the Church has basically been pretending exorcism doesn't happen anymore, Father Karras comes in to make a plea for the rite to be performed for Regan. After he leaves the room so his colleagues can talk, the other two priests immediately go into a hush hush convo about finding trusted exorcist Father Merrin, whose recent exploits they're obviously quite familiar with.

I read in recent years that the number of exorcisms being performed by the Church today is the highest in a hundred years.