I’ll dig it up when I get home, if you think it’s bull, then the renown excorcist, who just passed is some kind of a pervert, adding lying to his list of sins.
Exorcism is just a reading of the baptismal rights. Vast majority of the US has had a exorcism without knowing it, that’s all it is. No women crawling walls shooting peas out of their mouths. It’s the most extremely overrated rite we have, people don’t grasp that’s all you do, and you don’t even need to be a priest to baptize someone in any of the ancient churches. I can do a exorcism in under 5 minutes. If you want the theatrics of a full immersion in water, your gonna get wet.
For a lot of people, this is enough to solve psychological neurosis by removing stress, guilt, memories. Best if a priest does it cause he is a authority figure, makes for a stronger subjective connection on the person being baptized.
I don’t grasp the theology beyond that, but do readily acknowledge the expediency of the simple rite central to Christianity. It’s just a extra baptism, it either works or doesn’t as in the placebo effect from a strictly emperical standpoint. Nothing inherently satanic about it, nothing too special, every priest is trained to baptize, so doesn’t involve much intellectual arguments. It works, or it doesn’t, and costs next to nothing to try. It’s one of those arts most applauded in religion, as it can be highly effective psychologically, and causes no obvious danger in and if itself. Just recommend not relying on that alone.