Iowa Priest Chosen to Become Exorcist by SSPX
You get stories like this when religion is reported on by non critical thinkers. Nowhere in this story do you find anything to indicate whether Exorcism works or not, nowhere do you see any indications of the problems associated with exorcism such as accidental murder of people who have mental health needs. Nowhere do you see any indicator that the Catholicism of SSPX is certainly not mainstream, or that the schism disagrees with all things Catholic past 1962.
In it you do see the views of the fundamentalists on demonic possession presented dryly and straight forward as if they were fact.
Worst of all the reporter never mentions that SSPX was once excommunicated, and exists as a branch of Catholicism without canonical authority that also has a history ripe with fundamentalists and a tradition of hating jews and denying the holocaust.
There’s a new exorcist in town.
Four decades after the profession gained popular prominence in the gory horror flick “The Exorcist,” the Catholic Church is training a new legion of demon-fighting priests.
The Rev. David Fleming of St. Pius X Catholic Church in Urbandale is one of 50 U.S. priests recently chosen to train in the rite of exorcism. Fleming was named the official exorcist of the Diocese of Des Moines.
It is the church’s first effort in the United States to coordinate a “comprehensive and systematic formation process for this particular ministry,” Fleming told the Catholic Mirror, Des Moines’ diocesan newspaper. Contacted Saturday, Fleming declined to be interviewed by The Des Moines Register.