So it’ll pretty much be similar to the program “A Haunting”. I was expecting to see something more reality show like, more real. But I doubt anything like that will ever air on a big channel like Discovery. Maybe one day an underground documentary will be made about it.

If you think how much money Roland could have made after what happened to him, but he doesn’t do anything about it – not even a book, it makes his story more credible. He just wants a normal life.

Hi Tonja, the voice i heard was gentle, and like a reassuring tone. Wonder why it said nothing else.

just to add, there are exorcisms carried out today James, are all these priests deluded do you think?

Father Thomas, pastor of the Sacred Heart Parish in Saratoga, California, is a 28-year veteran of the priesthood. He is also a practicing exorcist; in Autumn 2005, Father Thomas traveled to Rome to complete a years training course under the tutelage of a master Italian exorcist. The story of his training inspired the film, ‘The Rite’, starring Anthony Hopkins. Despite this fictional portrayal, Father Thomas is also the embodiment of a new trend in the American Catholic church: Long the purview of American cinema, Catholic exorcism is being reclaimed, publicly, by its real-life practitioners. A factual account of Father Thomas’s training has been published in a book by journalist Matt Baglio; the Discovery Channel recently announced the airing of a reality show featuring the accounts of trained Catholic exorcists (though the Vatican has denied any official involvement with the series); and last November, Bishop Thomas John Paprocki of the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois convened a two-day conference to discuss the practice of exorcism within the Catholic Church.

“If a priest has the power to cast out demons, that’s a lot of power.”
The Catholic Church does not maintain official statistics on exorcisms. Yet Bishop Paprocki estimates that there are only around 30 priests in the United States qualified to perform the Rite of Exorcism, and he argues that these priests must contend with a growing number of exorcism requests.

The exorcism conference included sessions devoted to canon law and the dangers of an improperly performed exorcism, and the bishop hopes to eventually create a network of exorcists that extends across the United States. He also envisions the establishment of a formal program to train the next generation of exorcists. “The priests who have this responsibility get exorcism requests from all over the country,” he explains. “We want to prevent these priests from being overburdened.

Roughly a quarter of active bishops in the United States registered for the event, underscoring a growing interest in the Rite of Exorcism–a ritual that has remained, among American Catholics, relatively obscure. Historically, Catholics in the United States have been concerned with successfully assimilating into a majority-Protestant culture, explains Mathew Schmalz, a Professor of Religion at the College of the Holy Cross. They began to distance themselves from religious practices that came across as odd or out of place: the 1949 exorcism that inspired the 1970′s film The Exorcist, for example, was the last to be held in the archdiocese of Washington, D.C

I could give you many sources on exorcisms, but for now here is this one where i got the info above: http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/01/the-return-of-the-catholic-exorcism/70364/

This is very interesting: http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/01/05/discovery-exorcist-files/

Some of us who are perfectly normal, down to earth people have experienced something which opens up your mind and makes you question things. And not be so small minded to say that or this cannot exist. Some things are wonderful, others are terrifying! And yes they do have an effect on real-world consequences as you say. Which has made some people talk about these things in the hope to understand. Knowing full-well there are always going to be the knockers!

I can’t speak for people who do exorcisms, that’s not something I know much about. I am sure they are a special kind of person who just want to help others and understand what they are going through. It’s not a question of proving to the world or getting your video on the top of the list on you tube! It’s about compassion and understanding human lives when people need it most.

Don’t be so gullible. Demons aren’t real, gods aren’t real. Possessions would have visible real-world consequences and anyone who believed in them and took part in exorcisms would have every incentive to prove them yet they just… don’t. Never. No photos, no video.

Don’t be so gullible. It is embarassing, isn’t it?