The Pope's Exorcist

"When we jeer at the Devil and tell ourselves that he does not exist, that is when he is happiest."

-Father Gabriele Amorth Chief Exorcist of the Vatican, 1986-2016

Why do you think Saint Michael didn't kill Satan when he had the chance?

That is a question of theology.

Perhaps it was his mercy that stayed Saint Michael's sword.

The only thing that arrests god's love is a person's freedom to choose.

But god cannot be god unless he allows for this choice even for the damned.

Saint Michael, he knows this.

We will all be judged.

We will all be judged by how much we love.

I am the chief exorcist of the Vatican.

My position was appointed by my bishop.

My diocese is Rome.

My local bishop is the pope.

If you have a problem with me, you talk to my boss. Okay?

Cardinal Sullivan and the younger generation, they don't believe in the devil as we understand it.

It's only an idea for them.

For us, it is very real.

Two hundred fallen angels, expelled from heaven, driven beneath the soil where god is not welcomed.

It is not a fairytale.

Trauma such as you describe can be a gateway for the devil.

Suffering can make a soul desperate for connection.

It can make the innocent more vulnerable.

A mother's love is the closest thing we know to god's love.

The demon can smell your sins if they are not absolved.

May almighty god have mercy on you, and having forgiven your sins, lead you to eternal peace.

Amen.

And now we pray.

I command you, unclean spirit, whoever you are,along with all of your minions now attacking the servant of god, Henry, by the mysteries of the incarnation...Passion, resurrection and ascension of our lord Jesus Christ, by the descent of the holy spirit, by the coming of our lord for judgment, to tell me by some sign your name and the day and hour of your departure.

I command you, moreover, to obey me to the letter, I who am a minister of god, despite my unworthiness...

Your sins will seek you out.

May almighty god show you mercy.

And having forgiven your sins, may he lead you to eternal life.

Amen.

The demon is using her memory to deceive me.

How does it know these things?

It can sense our guilt,and it uses it against us as a distraction.

We need to find out the name of this demon.

Knowing its name, it weakens them.

Everything is redacted.

"Our sins will seek us out."

The devil is the great deceiver.

He can make you see things from your past.

Apparitions, memories, always trying to deceive us.

And they are...?

The victims. The ones who would not convert.

Centuries of persecution and torture, the worst abuses of the inquisition, all started by the friar and done in the name of god by the devil.

Remember, Do not believe everything you see or hear.

Our father, who art in heaven... In heaven, hallowed be thy name. Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy...Give us this day our...

Asmodeus, king of gehemma, this is the cross of the lord!

Release this child and flee from the light of god!

See thee beneath god!

And bow to the power of god almighty.

Lord is with thee.

Blessed art thou...

And of the angels...

We humbly beseech you...

Now and at the hour of our death.

To crush Satan's skull.

We beseech thee to send thy holy angels, that under thy command and by thy power,they may pursue the evil spirits, encounter them on every side,resist their bold attacks, and drive them hence into the abyss of woe!