In 1973, one movie changed the way we perceive exorcisms -- that is, the removal of demons from a person being tortured by them. The Exorcist, based on William Peter Blatty's book of the same name, ...

As a nurses’ strike stretched into its 107th day on Tuesday, people gathered in a Worcester, Massachusetts, hospital to perform an unusual operation. Waving a banner and sprinkling holy water from a ...

I thought I understood what exorcisms were… until I started looking deeper into them. Some of these stories are genuinely ...

Here’s a welcome twist: An article in a major magazine about Catholic exorcisms that neither ridicules nor sensationalizes the subject. The article is this interview, published by Time magazine, of ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Most Americans would think of the award-winning 1973 supernatural ...

Court to investigate whether practice crossed line into abuse after girl’s parents sent her for exorcisms thinking she was possessed A priest has been summoned to court to answer questions about more ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pope Francis recently expressed his approval of a group of exorcists meeting at the Vatican this week. While exorcisms, in which ...

HOLLYWOOD has dramatised the chilling and horrific religious ceremony of exorcisms – but real life versions often make international headlines. Here we take a look at why the Catholic Church performs ...

For nearly 40 years, Hollywood has been obsessed with the possessed. Since the 1973 blockbuster “The Exorcist” unleashed a head-spinning, pea-soup spewing, foul-mouthed and demon-possessed girl on the ...

More than 200 priests from around the world recently traveled to Rome for an annual Vatican training course on how to perform exorcisms, the ritual used by the Catholic Church to free people who are ...