# Exorcisms

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exorcisms/399443
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [April 10, 2007, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exorcisms/399443 "2007-04-10T04:39:48Z")
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### Author: ![copperwindow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@copperwindow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/copperwindow)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2007, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exorcisms/399443/1 "2007-04-10T04:39:48Z")

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Does the catholic church still perform exorcisms?

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### Author: ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2007, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exorcisms/399443/2 "2007-04-10T04:46:11Z")

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Yes. [Pope JP 2.0 performed one some years before he died.](http://www.catholicherald.com/cns/exorcism.htm)[Pope Palpatine even addressed their convention not too long ago.](http://atheism.about.com/b/a/203105.htm)