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.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The new movie The Ritual is based on a 1928 exorcism in Iowa. Catholic priest ...

The devil’s in the detail. Pope Leo XIV hosted the world’s most senior exorcists at the Vatican, who reportedly warned him of a terrifying global rise in “occultism, esotericism, and Satanism.” The ...

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 ...

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 ...

Senior Catholic exorcists have urged Pope Leo XIV to recruit more priests trained in battling demons, amid claims of a global surge in occult and Satanic practices. Officials from the International ...

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 ...

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 ...