Heart of Darkness Over the Emerald Isle

by Kenneth Francis (March 2018)

The Temptation of St. Anthony, Matthias Grünewald, 15th C.

 
renowned Irish exorcist has called upon his country’s bishops to provide more backup in dealing with an “exponential” surge of evil. Father Pat Collins wrote an open letter to Church hierarchy in which he also reported seeing a parallel between the increase in evil activity with a growing apostasy within the Church, according to the Catholic website, LifeSiteNews.

 

 

 

Released in 1973, this masterpiece film (unfortunately, with some dated special effects) is based on a best-selling 1971 novel by William Peter Blatty. The book was, in turn, based on an alleged true story that happened to a young boy in 1949, according to reports in local newspapers in Maryland, USA.

 

 

 

 

book The Rite: The Making of a Modern Exorcist, which in turn is based on real events as witnessed and recounted by the American then-exorcist-in-training, Father Gary Thomas. Fr Thomas speaks of the many who are moving away from traditional faiths and looking for alternative religions or spirituality.

 

 

He said that any person showing signs of possession must be tested by psychological professionals and doctors, and questions about drug and alcohol addiction must be asked. Some 80 per cent of the people he meets who say they are possessed have actually suffered some kind of abuse. In most of these cases, Ouija boards were not the cause but in some cases they were. In some cases the cause for possession can come from involvement with satanic cults.

 

documented by the board-certified psychiatrist and associate professor of clinical psychiatry at New York Medical College, Richard E. Gallagher. The case entailed an American, middle-aged Caucasian woman known only by the pseudonym, ‘Julia’. ‘Julia allegedly levitated six inches off the ground and demonstrated paranormal psychic powers and spoke foreign languages unknown to her.

 

 

 

 

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Kenneth Francis is a Contributing Editor at New English Review. For the past 20 years, he has worked as an editor in various publications, as well as a university lecturer in journalism. He also holds an MA in Theology and is the author of The Little Book of God, Mind, Cosmos and Truth (St Pauls Publishing).

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