June 2, 2006

A Course Guides Students Through the Legal, Medical, and Pastoral Aspects of Demonic Possession

By BURTON BOLLAG

"Exorcism and Prayer of Liberation," Pontifical Academy Regina Apostolorum

In America even many Catholics probably associate exorcism foremost with the 1973 Hollywood film, The Exorcist, in which the head of a possessed child rotates 360 degrees. But in Italy the Roman Catholic Church takes the issue seriously. This semester-long course is about to be offered for a third time this summer by the academy, one of about 20 pontifical higher-education

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