Report: Exorcisms are on the Rise and Catholics are Getting 'em Done
Source – Rett Leasure … worked at a mental health facility for children and adolescents.
She was watching over a 10-year-old boy when his family asked if they could schedule a visit and bringing along their friends from church. As a mental health technician, she was required to be in the room during a visit.
“I had no idea they were actually planning an exorcism until they came for a visit,” Leasure said. …
Leasure said he became violent and back then in the facility, in order to protect the patient and others around, they would strap them down. Leasure said the boy was strapped down with five-point leather restraints.
“He came out of those and flipped on his back like it was nothing, that is impossible,” Leasure said.
Leasure said in the situation she experienced; the little boy’s eyes turned completely black while she was kneeling next to him.
“Not a whole lot scares me being in my line of work, the things I do, but I was frightened,” Leasure said.
The Catholic Diocese said there are four main signs of the demonic:
Speaking languages otherwise unknown to the person
Demonstrating strength beyond the normal capacity of the person
Elevated perception and having knowledge about things they shouldn’t
Resisting anything sacred
Father Vincent Lambert from Brookville, Indiana … is a priest, but also a trained exorcist. He had been a priest for fourteen years before he was appointed in 2005 to be the exorcist by the Diocese of Indianapolis.
“I tell people I got the job because I was at the wrong place at the wrong time,” Father Lambert said.
He trained in Rome for three months with the Franciscan priest participating in 40 exorcisms.
Father Lambert said he is seeing an increase in people wanting to get exorcisms, as well as seeing an increase in priests being trained by the Vatican.
“As faith is in decline, there may be more people who open themselves up to the reality of evil,” Father Lambert said.
Enjoy that on your post-Halloween weekend, everybody. Faith is on the decline. Exorcisms are on the rise. Believers and non-believers alike are getting them. And it’s only those holy as hell wafer-eaters from your archdiocese standing between you and the Seventh Seal breaking and bringing us the End of Days.
You know, I’m not a good enough Catholic to gloat. I’m also not one of those ones who’s super sensitive about what people say about the Church. We’ve made ourselves a big, inviting, slow moving target. I’ve stood in the middle of the Vatican and listened to a non-Catholic friend crack jokes about molesting altar boys and didn’t object. I saw “Spotlight.” I’ve got Episcopalian friends who resent the fact my parish has the problem of SRO and no parking at some of our masses while they’re holding bake sales and chili cookoffs just to pay the bills. So I get it. I definitely, definitely get it.
But allow me to say “I told you so,” just this once.
No good ever comes out of one religion telling the others “We’re right and you’re wrong.” But it’s funny how nobody’s calling the minister at that Episcopal church when li’l Justin’s eyes turn into 8 balls or Jessica starts speaking ancient Aramaic and spitting pea soup in everybody’s eyes.
Yeah, sorry about that. Your grandma’s melon is spinning in circles like a souvenir from Geriatric Bobblehead Night. Your toddler can lift up a chest of drawers and knows your entire sexual history. But I don’t see anybody calling the local Buddhist temple or logging onto AmishHelp.com. In times of crisis, when the chips are down, everyone comes back to the place where it all began. The First Responders of Armageddon, like Father Lambert. Who’ll kick the door in, crucifix in one hand, Holy Water in the other, put out your fires and save the day.
Are we perfect? Hell no. Not even close. But we’re still the ones you need in crunch time.
When your levitatin’,
And it don’t look good,
Who ya gonna call?
Cath-o-lics!