In 1973, one movie changed the way we perceive exorcisms -- that is, the removal of demons from a person being tortured by them. The Exorcist, based on William Peter Blatty's book of the same name, ...

An exorcism “explosion” is putting people’s mental health at risk, a British report into the booming religious practice warns. The report, issued by Christian and social issues think-tank Theos, says ...

Here’s a welcome twist: An article in a major magazine about Catholic exorcisms that neither ridicules nor sensationalizes the subject. The article is this interview, published by Time magazine, of ...

As a nurses’ strike stretched into its 107th day on Tuesday, people gathered in a Worcester, Massachusetts, hospital to perform an unusual operation. Waving a banner and sprinkling holy water from a ...

I thought I understood what exorcisms were… until I started looking deeper into them. Some of these stories are genuinely disturbing.

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Most Americans would think of the award-winning 1973 supernatural ...

For nearly 40 years, Hollywood has been obsessed with the possessed. Since the 1973 blockbuster “The Exorcist” unleashed a head-spinning, pea-soup spewing, foul-mouthed and demon-possessed girl on the ...

As a thriller writer, I’m never certain where my research will take me, and often it takes me to very dark places. Demonic possession, for example. “Possession” is now recognized in the American ...

Court to investigate whether practice crossed line into abuse after girl’s parents sent her for exorcisms thinking she was possessed A priest has been summoned to court to answer questions about more ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Indiana priest is warning people that someone is impersonating him on social media and offering exorcisms. Lampert told Local ...

GARY, Ind. — The story of an Indiana family attacked by demons and freed by a Catholic priest through a series of exorcisms has stirred imaginations and curiosity. It also seems to confirm what many ...