time mark 37:34 – Deliverance strategy for laity for everything short of full-blown demonic possession (which requires an authorized exorcist) includes renunciation of evil, a devout sacramental life (especially confession), and prayer.
time mark 40:04 – Deliverance prayer properly involves deprecatory prayer (asking God to intervene); not imprecatory prayer (direct adjuration of a demon), which is strictly forbidden and dangerous, since laity lack proper faculties for directly engaging the demonic (cites Cardinal Ratziner)
time mark 42:33 – Laying on of hands is also dangerous as opens the door to the occult (Blai offers a horrific example of what can happen).
time mark 2:24 – “The worst case of possession I have ever had was a woman who asked for the gift of tongues …”
time mark 6:8 – “When I was exorcist [in the Diocese of Omaha], I cannot tell you how many people I’ve had to clean up from the Charismatic Renewal, [despite] … the highest estimations I have of some of these people.”
Giuseppe Giordan and Adam Possamai, Sociology of Exorcism in Late Modernity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) – sociological analysis showing how religious groups compete to ‘brand’ their particular type of exorcism ritual, and how authorized Catholic exorcists tend to contrast their rituals with deliverance ministries of Pentecostals.
Joe Slama (Catholic News Agency), “Why this Catholic priest objects to the ‘private exorcist’ trend” (Crux, Aug 6, 2017) – an cited Economist article references a private “professional” claiming to make €12,000 (over $14,000) a month from the business, in contrast to the Catholic Church’s exorcists who never impose financial charges for their services.
Charismatic Movement and Catholic Tradition 