An Exorcist Tells His Story

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Finally, it most be noted that most people consider both exorcism and this book, because it discusses exorcism, as a Catholic matter. And he performed them in spite of disobeying the Church and his own admission that people with mental health issues might suffer from the wrong belief they are possessed reinforced by needlessly receiving an exorcism.

Sometimes it will work but you will still need a doctor to fix the damage the demon did in the meantime. The author (died in 2016), chief exorcist of the diocese of Vatican, adheres strictly to the Catholic faith and interprets his experiences in this frame of understanding.

Amorth's stated purpose in writing this book is to let people know that the devil is real, and the battle against him is ongoing. An exorcist in Rome, he claimed to have performed thousands of exorcisms, but this book is mostly laying out his theology. He also reminds the general public of the reality of this problem, and how one may become subject to demonic influences. His book (first published about 1987), which widely includes the teachings of his teacher and mentor Father Candido Amantini (died in 1992), was intended to remedy this deplorable state of affairs and had soon some positive effect.

To the credit of the author he does point out psychologists are needed and often work together with an exorcist. Amorth, the Exorcist of Rome, instructs in this work that the person who should be most skeptical of claims of possession or demonic interference and influence, is actually the Exorcist himself. It contains major contradictions and inconsistencies, so I'm baffled how it's popular even among believers. While I do agree that leading a devout Christian life can be an admirable pursuit, the book seems to imply that it inevitably leads to a power struggle, as power has a tendency to corrupt.

I was expecting (obviously) for this to be saturated with doctrine (which I'm usually okay with) when it comes to this topic. He wrote this book in part to encourage the Catholic Church to appoint more priests as exorcists - he thought every diocese should have at least one. By those accounts, I suspect this author would happily let me know I was going to hell, despite the fact that my most meaningful spiritual practice is. An Exorcist Tells His Story was the perfect length for a seven-hour (approximately) car trip my husband and I took yesterday including pauses for discussion. I would also recommend "The star of Satan", a dark novel by George Bernanos (cited by Paul VI in his famous 1972 allocutio on the existence of a personified evil)and noted in Amorth's second book.

The author suggests that the human species has only been capable of exorcising demons or devils for the past 2000 years, which is a claim that lacks logical support. I also am a yoga teacher, Reiki practitioner, have studied Buddhist meditation, astrology, mythology, and have many personal pagan practices. I will include a quote from "The Imitation of Christ" by Thomas Kempis: "He who follows me walketh not in darkness.Amorth very simply lays out all those things in life that the evil one uses to draw people in and then to make them suffer.

There are many episodes where he narrates about the exorcism but to the end part of the book I felt little boring, I don't know the reason. I was raised Catholic and find so many of the Catholic traditions beautiful, meaningful, important, significant, and filled with truth.Amorth is brutally honest in revealing some dark secrets that failures in exorcism is quite common when the possession is deep rooted for many years in the victim.