The Pope’s Exorcist: 101 Questions About Fr. Gabriele Amorth

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Besides his extensive exorcisms, Father Amorth also authored several books such as An Exorcist Tells His Story, An Exorcist: More Stories, and Exorcism and Psychiatry. He also contributed to television and radio programs on all things related to exorcism. Siebert, who teaches film at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and runs the college’s film production company, had no motion picture credits to his name and wondered at the time: “What have I gone and done?”

In the "The Pope's Exorcist," set in 1987, Crowe's Amorth heads to Spain with his apprentice, a younger priest, tasked with investigating a young boy's possession. There he uncovers a "centuries-old conspiracy" that the Vatican has tried to cover up in a plot that appears to channel The Da Vinci Code, Indiana Jones and numerous buddy-cop movies.a b Squires, John (January 27, 2023). " The Pope's Exorcist – The Witch Star Ralph Ineson Will Voice the Film's Demon [Exclusive]". Bloody Disgusting. Archived from the original on February 7, 2023 . Retrieved February 7, 2023. In 1987, Father Gabriele Amorth, the Pope's personal exorcist, an earthy, scooter-riding, humorous, practical man, visits an Italian village where a man is seemingly possessed by a demon. With the local priest, Amorth enters the room where the man is tied up. While exorcising him, using a Saint Benedict Medal sacramental, Amorth taunts the demon, challenging it to possess a pig; when it does, the pig is killed with a shotgun.

In my Protestant past, I was deeply involved with demonic deliverance ministries which thoroughly convinced me of the reality and power of Satanic forces. Having seen the failures and weaknesses of non-Catholic approaches, I am immensely impressed with the wisdom, authority, and experiences of the Catholic Church. As Catholics, we should all be deeply grateful to Fr. Gabriele Amorth for the spiritual insight and experiences he shares with us as the Chief Exorcist of Rome. He lives and shares with us the reality of the victory of Christ."

How true to life is The Pope’s Exorcist?

Parliament’s Winter Session: INDIA bloc to raise ‘leak’ of ethics panel report against Mahua Moitra Instead, the Catholic Church requires the priest to have permission and support from his bishop to perform the rite of exorcism, he is required to assess the situation carefully, to talk with family members and others, and to make sure it is really a case of demonic possession, which is very rare, he said.

Amorth's convoluted road to the priesthood included fighting as a partisan in World War II, getting a law degree and working as a journalist. He didn't become an exorcist until he was 61. He was no stranger to controversy, claiming Hitler and Stalin were possessed, that pedophile cults operated within the Vatican, and that yoga and Harry Potter were gateways to the demonic. At first the author talks how years are needed to exorcise a demon, yet later says possession is a gradual process, it can't immediately be made distinct from demonic oppression and other demonic influences. But you can also be instantly possessed via a spell/hex/etc. And you can't really tell for yourself if you are, because apparently losing control over your body and being trapped inside your head is one of the most extreme signs of possession, some sort of a final stage and not the norm or even the beginning. He bashes psychologists for not considering spiritual problems after years of little success in patient treatment, however when he as an exorcist needs years to free a possessed person this criteria doesn't apply. But simultaneously the benefits of exorcism should be visible after a few days. R.I.P. logic.In Rome, the Pope becomes ill while reading documents about the Spanish case and is hospitalized. Amorth finds a well on the abbey grounds going down to a complex sealed off by the Church as demonically dangerous. He learns that a founder of the Spanish Inquisition, an exorcist, was possessed, which let him infiltrate the Church and do many evils. Amorth also finds the Church covered this up and eventually discovers the name of Henry's demon, Asmodeus, which will assist the exorcism. Even witnessing the demon temporarily leaving the possessed body and taking another one is something confirmed in Father Amorth’s books. What’s fictional, however, is the possibility that the exorcism asks the demon to possess himself: this cannot happen, as the word of God guides the exorcist, and the demons fear the power of their Lord. As The Pope’s Exorcist doesn’t fail to explain, even demons are subjected to God’s will and live in fear of His judgment. As the movie shows, a demon can possess an individual only under certain circumstances, like the pain of a traumatic event. However, the film, inspired by the two memoirs written by the Italian priest, is a work of fiction, presenting “a young boy’s terrifying possession” and “a centuries-old conspiracy the Vatican has desperately tried to keep hidden,” according to media kit information by Sony Pictures Entertainment.