Father Marcello Lanza of the International Association of Exorcists recently honored Father Gabriele Amorth on the 100th ...

Al Pacino was too freaked out to see "The Exorcist," but stars with Dan Stevens in "The Ritual," a horror movie based on a true exorcism account.

So begins “ The Ritual ,” David Middel’s excruciatingly generic horror effort that forces us to wonder whether the exorcism ...

In popular culture, exorcism often serves as a plot device in chilling films about demonic possession. Last month, two Roman Catholic archbishops showed a different face of exorcism – performing ...

Exorcisms are a frequent fascination for the film industry, ... The 2023 movie The Pope's Exorcist, based on the memoirs of the real Catholic priest and exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth, ...

Filmed before “The Pope’s Exorcist” but released one year afterwards, Joshua John Miller’s “The Exorcism” once again stars Crowe as a Catholic priest performing an exorcism.

A successful exorcism was no longer proof of an individual’s charisma, but a way of validating an entire religious community. This attitude toward exorcism continued into the twentieth century. The ...

Popularly known as the Vatican’s exorcist for his decades-long work in Rome, the Italian-born Catholic priest Gabriele Amorth, S.S.P., was a controversial figure. An imposing man with a severe ...

"Catholic exorcisms require an episcopal or bishop approval, and the priests need to be trained in that," he says. "There's a whole bureaucratic process to having an exorcism approved.

According to Rausch, exorcisms take place much more often in the Catholic Church on the big screen than in reality. “I've never heard of one, actually,” Rausch said.

That crisis was, in a sense, the subject of “The Exorcist.” The film, adapted from a novel by William Peter Blatty, depicted a world in which the modernizing element of the Catholic Church was ...