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The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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The rite of exorcism is not one of the seven official sacraments of the Catholic faith. Church leaders don’t discuss it very often, and the general perception is that it is rarely performed. But perhaps not quite as rarely as you might assume.

A priest in my neighborhood recently admitted that he had been called in to perform an exorcism. A local teenage…

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