Father Gabriele Amorth Archives

Circuitous route led to director’s second film on exorcism

Catholic News Service, Global Church
Apr 21, 2018

William Friedkin directed “The Exorcist” decades ago, but when he found himself in Rome, he took a chance and was able to meet the chief exorcist of Rome and made a documentary about him.

Circuitous route led to director’s second film on exorcism

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Apr 19, 2018

William Friedkin, who directed ‘The Exorcist’ 45 years ago, thought he was through with the subgenre he helped create. Then came his documentary on exorcism, ‘The Devil and Father Amorth.’

When the devil strikes, exorcists are ready for battle

Catholic News Service, Vatican
Mar 9, 2018

St. John Paul II once called Lent a period of “spiritual training” for sharpening people’s ability to recognize “the voice of God and the insidious voice of the evil one.”

Exorcist says there’s a demon that targets the family

Catholic News Agency, Global Church
Oct 28, 2017

An exorcist says that the devil is behind things like divorce which are are attacks on the family. He said, “Even today, and I’m more than 50 years old, just thinking that my mother and father love each other forever, I find comfort and courage. In contrast, the children of separated parents are more fragile and wavering.”

Famed exorcist proved you don’t have to play the clerical game

All Things Catholic, Analysis, Global Church
Sep 17, 2016

From the outside the Catholic Church can sometimes look like a rigid system of command-and-control, one in which there are severe penalties for coloring outside the lines. Father Gabriele Amorth, Rome’s most celebrated exorcist who died Friday at 91, proved that’s only true if you allow it to be.

Amorth, Rome’s most celebrated exorcist, dies at 91

Catholic News Agency, Global Church, Obituary
Sep 16, 2016

Father Gabriel Amorth, the famed Roman exorcist who died Friday at 91, was a “strong, vigorous voice [who] spoke to millions of people about the action of the devil,” a member of his Society of St. Paul order said. “He alone managed to revitalize the ministry in one country, and then his influence reached everywhere in the Church.”