I’m not sure what to make of this report from the Telegraph. Apparently in Poland, the demand for exorcists has almost tripled in the last decade. The report states that more and more people shy away from science and turn to spiritualism to help deal with mental disorders.

You’d think that the need for exorcists would drop as modern medicine and technology progresses, but apparently that’s not the case in some parts of this world.

“…But while some cases of Satanic work are difficult to diagnose others manifest themselves in shocking circumstances explained exorcist Father Andrzej Grefkowicz.

“An indication of possession is that a person is unable to go into a church, or, if they do, they can feel faint or breathless,” he said.

‘Sometimes if they enter a church they are screaming, shouting and throwing themselves on the ground.’ “

If not being able to attend a church and/or screaming, shouting and throwing yourself on the ground while at church constitutes in being possessed, then I can point out a hundred or so toddlers that are possessed.
I’m just saying.

In all seriousness, I think we rarely talk about possession here in GT. My opinion on it is that I don’t believe that such a thing as a real possession can exist. At the same time, I don’t wish to find out.

Full source: Telegraph UK

Since 1999 the number of Polish exorcists has surged from 30 to over a 100, despite the influence of the Catholic Church waning in an increasingly secular Poland.

Exorcists attribute the increase in their numbers to growing scepticism in psychology in the wider Polish population, and people looking for spiritual reasons for mental disorders.

In recognition of modern science, however, exorcists now work in tandem with psychologists in order to distinguish between psychiatric problems and the work of the devil.
But while some cases of Satanic work are difficult to diagnose others manifest themselves in shocking circumstances explained exorcist Father Andrzej Grefkowicz.

“An indication of possession is that a person is unable to go into a church, or, if they do, they can feel faint or breathless,” he said.

“Sometimes if they enter a church they are screaming, shouting and throwing themselves on the ground.”

The national congress comes as part of a policy by Poland’s Catholic Church to lift the veil on what was once a secretive practice. Frustrated by the Hollywood image of cross-wielding exorcists engaged in dramatic conflicts with demons the Church intends to show the complicated and often more mundane world of exorcism.

Father Grefkowicz stressed that the most of the time exorcism required quiet prayer.