Vatican Exorcism Leaders: Don’t Try To Exorcise COVID

The Daily Beast reports:

The 15th annual exorcism conference, held in Rome this week after a one-year hiatus due to COVID, has turned up all sorts of new pandemic problems facing the world’s exorcists.

Those in attendance at the five-day conference, hosted in a Vatican-owned pontifical university, shared stories about the increase in calls they’d received over the last year.

“Overwhelmingly we were asked to exorcise COVID from people who were sick,” Father Miguel Martin, a Spanish exorcist who is attending the conference, told The Daily Beast. “We were told under no circumstance should we perform the rite on a COVID patient.”

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We’re like 18 months into COVID-19, and people still have to be told not to do this?

Vatican to Exorcists: Please Don’t Try to Cast COVID Out of People https://t.co/1xAgldEdFH via @thedailybeast

— Christopher Hutton aka SCP 1127 (@chris_journo) October 28, 2021