Dublin priest blasts Church for lack of training in exorcisms

[Peter1469]

Dublin priest blasts Church for lack of training in exorcisms

reland’s most prominent exorcist has accused the church of abandoning its flock by failing to train priests in the religious practice of demon hunting.

In a special RTE Would You Believe documentary about evil, Fr Pat Collins, who is also a trained psychologist, claims he has experience in dealing with demonic spirits.

In the documentary, the cleric doesn’t rule out human explanations of evil but believes it’s naive to exclude the supernatural dimension.


He said he is appalled by the lack of training for exorcists in today’s Church.

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[Devil'sAdvocate]

Exorcism, and psychotherapy, alchemy and chemistry, astrology and astronomy...Somethings never change, only the language uses to describe them does...

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic - Arthur Clarke



I'm sure the science of today will be viewed as the alchemy of our descendants 500 years from now, and we'll be viewed as neanderthals for our quaint notions which we thought blindly to be fact...

[Peter1469]

Exorcism, and psychotherapy, alchemy and chemistry, astrology and astronomy...Somethings never change, only the language uses to describe them does...

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic - Arthur Clarke



I'm sure the science of today will be viewed as the alchemy of our descendants 500 years from now, and we'll be viewed as neanderthals for our quaint notions which we thought blindly to be fact...

I think you are wrong. And silly.

[Devil'sAdvocate]

I think you are wrong. And silly.

Yes, people who held a geocentric solar system to be scientific fact felt that way about Galileo I'm sure...

People today aren't really much different at all than their ancestors, the fortune tellers and soothsayers today just call themselves "economists" and "stockbrokers", and people believe them just as easily.