re: #14 Backwoods_Sleuth

Agreed about sloppy metaphors, but apparently “exorcism” is indeed the word Bishop Paprocki used, as quoted in the State Journal-Register article I linked to in #10:

Yep, but he meant “rebuking evil” rather than mounting a complex ritual to drive out a demon. Exorcism is a very formal affair, hardly heard of in the 50s and 60s, until that stupid movie came out. (All priests used to be exorcists, one of the ordination processes, for about 15 minutes, until they moved on to the more serious Holy Orders. A minority of priests are still assigned as exorcists, like the 89 yr old crazy uncle in the Vatican. I forget the Latin phrase for “humoring him”.)