Cosmos-Liturgy-Sex

‘It is a great mystery that providence should permit diabolical activity, but “we know that in everything God works for good with those who love him.”‘ - Catechism of the Catholic Church

Dr. Richard E. Gallagher, the only American psychiatrist to have been a consistent U.S. delegate to the International Association of Exorcists, writes his experience with a present-day Demoniac, in the New Oxford Review.

The case of Julia illustrates a number of the classic signs of possession. The venerable Roman Ritual (Rituale Romanum of Pope Paul IV, 1614) lists as strongly suggestive signs, prominent among others, hidden knowledge, the ability to speak an unknown language, and abnormal physical strength. Other elements traditionally associated with possession were evident as well, including, invariably, expressions of hatred of the sacred, blasphemous and vituperative language, the ability to discern (and recoil from) blessed objects, the phenomenon of levitation, and, most importantly, a trance-like state interrupted by the presence of what appears as an independent, intelligent entity (or entities), and the expressed desire of this intelligence not to leave the afflicted.

Here’s a website on exorcism facts.