“Gabriele Amorth” sounds like a name Rowling would have made up for one of her bad-guy characters.
Can you perfrom mass exorcisms? Because otherwise that is two exorcisms a day without weekends off for 40 years. That is more exorcisms than I have had hot dinners.
I think that they also like to think that evil is an external enemy, because then it can be walled out or destroyed. Imprison or kill the Nazis/crooks/Commies/whatever, and you’ll be safe.
I’ve started to think that Religious leaders and Political types by some unwritten law must be published in a major newspaper spouting off nonsense in order to keep their tenture/jobs.
This is purely a theory of mine.
i can’t say exactly why it struck me this way, but i nearly did a chai-on-monitor maneuver over that one.
and as a registered (but open-minded) RC, i’d say the term “batshit insane” invoked up-thread is probably more than apt for the subject Exorcist. (anybody have a good flight of steps handy?)
Just keep in mind that those funny-looking hats they wear are all lined with tinfoil.
If by “Satanic” he means “purely mythological”, then he’s right.
Say it loud, say it proud:
THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS MAGIC
If by “Satanic” he means “purely mythological”, then he’s right.
Say it loud, say it proud:
THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS MAGIC
Okay, consider the source but. . . In an interview with Art Bell I recall Malachi Martin saying that during some exorcisms more than one evil spirit may appear and have to be delt with. He (Martin) also worked with other priests present.
Perhaps the 30,000 represents a combination of multiple spirits, exorcisms at which he was present and maybe a little exaggeration.
The wizards, or the bishops?
Say it twice. 
You can; just google mass exorcism. I don’t know if this guy has, however; perhaps he just doesn’t have a life.
The bishops use tinfoil, the wizards mithril.
Gosh darn it, I couldn’t get through earlier to post that. “The page is taking too long to load.”
My seconds shall call upon you in the morning, Sir. Brick bats at half a mile.
The good father has supposedly performed 50000 exorcisms. Oookay…
While I think that you might have a point that the total could reflect multiple spirits at a single event, having read one of Martin’s books, I think that it’s more likely someone’s been guzzling the communion wine.
Wicked.
The nazis would still be responsible, for having given in to temptation. Repeatedly and gleefully.