St. Francis Borgia Helping a Dying Impenitent, Francisco de Goya Source: Wikimedia Commons/Public domain The idea that humans can be “possessed” by the devil, demons, or spirits has been an enduring ...

The Possession (2012), yet another in a recent deluge of films about demonic possession and exorcism supposedly based on real cases, opened this Labor Day weekend. (I have not seen the movie, so this ...

Fr. Vincent Lampert — a Catholic priest and the designated exorcist for the Archdiocese of Indianapolis — has witnessed people “foaming at the mouth, growling and snarling” during one of many ...

Of course, now that you've seen it, you might be on the hunt for other films like it, and while you could just go back and watch the original Exorcist film again, we're betting you've been down that ...

We saw a lot of demonic possession on our TVs and movie screens in 2023, from "Evil Dead Rise"... UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #2: (As character) Mommy's with the maggots now. DETROW: ..."The Pope's Exorcist" ...

Russell Crowe has a thing for exorcisms. In 2023, we watched him be a very unserious person while he fought demons as the Pope’s personal exorcist. The Pope’s Exorcist didn’t hold back on the holy ...

When envisioning an exorcism, most probably see a spinning head, an old priest and a young priest, and lots of projectile vomiting. That, of course, is how it was portrayed in the 1973 movie “The ...

Tuesday marks 50 years since The Exorcist came out and shocked audiences with its depiction of a possessed 12-year-old girl. Its release kicked off an obsession with films about demonic possession.

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