Jeanne Erickson – New York Post March 28, 2026
The demand for exorcists is at record levels, claims a leading demon-hunter who blames human nature as much as the devil for the trend.
Father Chad Ripperger, a Catholic priest in the Archdiocese of Denver, told The Post there aren’t more demons running amok on Earth.
The blame lies primarily with people themselves. They blatantly disregard the church’s teachings and act on their own dark impulses instead.
“The demons are empowered as more and more people commit evil deeds,” Father Ripperger said. “If a person willingly becomes involved in these evil deeds, Satanism or witchcraft, the actions lead to a susceptibility to Satan’s influence so that he or she is easily manipulated and can be incited to do more evil things.
“Unfortunately, people today do not believe their actions have consequences.”
During an exorcism, the priest — armed with holy water, the crucifix and a bible — reads prayers and scriptures to the “possessed” while commanding the demon to depart. The person may need to be restrained during the session as the priest’s presence may anger the demon, said Ripperger, but “only a small percentage — about 10% — of cases are as dramatic as portrayed in Hollywood.”
Scene from The Exorcist. Click to enlarge
The 1973 film “The Exorcist” terrified audiences worldwide. In it, a girl named Regan MacNeil, portrayed by Linda Blair, underwent an exorcism in which she famously projectile-vomited a disgusting green substance, levitated, rotated her head to face backwards, spoke in ancient tongues, developed startling facial scars, and talked in a demon’s voice.
Today, Catholic Church experts said there are roughly 150 priests in the US trained to practice exorcism.
That number has increased an astonishing 650% since 2020 — when only about 20 priests were trained for the position, said Ripperger.
On March 13, Pope Leo XIV hosted the world’s most senior exorcists at the Vatican. They reportedly warned him of the terrifying global rise in “occultism, esotericism and Satanism.”
The priests of the International Association of Exorcists called on him to ensure that every diocese in the world has one or more adequately trained exorcist priests, according to EWTN Vatican.
The new exorcists are already being trained to handle the growing number of desperate families seeking help for disturbing and inexplicable behavior, according to reports from Catholic priests and church officials.
Other Catholic priests involved in the phenomenon — Rev. Vincent Lampert, the designated exorcist of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, and Monsignor Stephen Rosetti, a Washington, DC-based expert on psychological and spiritual wellness — are also seeing an uptick in cases.
During 2018, Lampert said he received a staggering 1,700 calls for help. CNN contacted all 196 Catholic dioceses and archdioceses in the US for a recent report. Of the 48 that responded, 25 dioceses — over 50% — reported a recent increase for exorcism requests.
Rev. Dan Todd, a trained exorcist at Our Lady of Divine Mercy Anglican Church in High Bridge, NJ, told The Post, “The devil is out there, but people do bad things as well. Also, psychiatric disorders like schizophrenia and dissociative identity disorder can mimic demonic possession.
“About 99% of cases are due to mental illness.”
In that event, mental health consideration must be given “to make sure they get the help they need,” he added
Signs of possession, according to leading exorcists, include:
- Speaking in languages they do not know. Having knowledge of ancient Latin, Hebrew, or Greek, without having studied them.
- Knowledge of the unknown. A demonically possessed person will somehow know personal details never revealed publicly.
- Immense strength. “I’ve seen a woman throw a refrigerator across the room,” said Todd.
- Psychological manipulation. Demons will attempt to unsettle exorcists.
- Aversion to religious symbols like crosses and holy water.
- Sudden and extreme rage, obscene hand gestures and excessive profanity.
- Hallucinations, obsessive thoughts and suicidal ideation.
The experts also give advice on how people can protect themselves from demons.
- Prayer and fasting.
- Attend church services and take communion.
- Study the Bible.
- Confession and repentance.
- Stay away from persons you know to be evil or commit crimes.
- Call upon your Guardian Angel, who is more powerful than the devil himself.
“Confession is the most powerful way to keep your soul clean. Even in the middle of an exorcism, if a person confesses their sins, the demon will vanish,” said Todd.
We’re living in the time of the ‘anti-Christ’ = anti Christianity. This is why they are the way they are. People have chosen Mammon – the pursuit of wealth and materialism over the teachings of YHWH and Yeshua When you prioritise the love of money over goodness, kindness and compassion, well, something has to give.
The west is a slave plantation, stunning deeper into despair.
I’m not a religious fellow, not really even that spiritual, but if for some reason I become plagued by dark forces the first thing I would do if a home smudging failed I’d contact the Catholic Church. I’m not a Catholic but I don’t think that stops them helping if they believe someone has these problems.
In my movie, the cutting of foreskins along with drinking blood and eating flesh would be the surrogates of demon possession. Each demon having the same name, “KONKLUDE”.
“Conclude, Priest! The circumcision is one of many of your CONCLUSIONS! HAHAHAHAHA!!!
Drinking metaphorical blood and consuming flesh? Another shortsighted and meaningless CONCLUSION!”
“The rage for wanting to conclude is one of the most deadly and most fruitless manias to befall humanity. Each religion and each philosophy has pretended to have God to itself, to measure the infinite, and to know the recipe for happiness. What arrogance and what nonsense! I see, to the contrary, that the greatest geniuses and the greatest works have never concluded.”
– Gustave Flaubert
The antidote to Democrat and Labour is purported to be Republican and Conservative; the antidote to “Satanism” is “Christianity”…. hmmm
Human beings love to categorise and pigeonhole. This makes the task of manipulative demagogues much easier. It plays to our natural lazy and ignorant preference for off the shelf remedies and maybe a stipended man in a Byzantine costume waving a crucifix and incense burner…
Dialectics make control of a population much easier. Saying this here on TTS for many of us is playing to the gallery of like-minded folks. For those who are governed by ignorance, fears, and limited education there is no substitute for the theatre of Church and “approved” political parties.
UK Column have done useful analysis on the divide and rule politics in their latest broadcast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et7UAGMk_wE
So, so much for the narrow realm of politics…
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Religion and the paranormal touches upon larger concepts. A couple of us discussed this in the recent “Disclosure Day” article where we posited “ETs” et al were part of a larger ecosystem of paranormal experiences known to folklore and predating Christianity.
https://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=325463
To wit, the hitherto more unexplainable phenomena dimly recorded in folklore are not sufficiently explained by Christianity, or Islam, or Judaism; not to say though elements of religious thought – narrow as it is – don’t provide some insights such as the Islamic description of Jinn which seem to correlate with faery lore.
But, yeah, organised religion is an attempt to establish population control. I daresay the berobed do-gooders mean well mostly and believe in their mission, but deeper in their soul is maybe the desire to be regarded as “worthy” and a “pillar of the community”. Their loyalty to their individual churches provides institutional sustainability and vicarages to live in…
The crossover between state and church is fascinating. In Tudor times religious argument allowed the confiscation of lands from another Christian denomination, while in modern times the appointment of Black and female Archbishops in England plays into Cultural Marxism. The direction of religious innovation is always in the direction of earthly power politics. Those resisting these innovations are “pagans”, “heretics”, and the “unworthy”. (Those resisting the Cultural Marxism in modern institutions are likewise “nazis”, “reactionaries”, “homophobes”, and “sexists” etc.)
Truth almost necessarily seems to be hostage to power play, and controlling the dialectic is at the heart of such top-down machinations. Most humans will forever remain hostage methinks, but maybe the few of us who congregate here can at least point the REAL truthseeker in the right direction because life seems a little less lonely when we know others think like us…
@MM
You just made an interesting point here.
Catholic church is the only “christian” church I know of that does exorcisms. And they have compelling and astounding documentation to show that should convince even the most stupid hearts hardened and blinded by materialism and satanism.
So sad that the Catholic church has been so badly infiltrated (read “the plot against the church” by Maurice Pinay, Venezuelan edition) with so much satanism going on inside.
This plot is ongoing but the church still hasn’t fallen down completely, as it still retains some of its authority to expel demons. But who knows for how long.
Perhaps you already know about the website vaticancatholic.com .
It is operated by catholic “sedevacantists” who tell us that the last popes were all fake popes, or “antipopes”
In the video section (endtimes.video or something similar) there are some documentary videos that are of interest to all persons, be they catholic or not, for example that video that proves that demonic activity is real. I highly recommend you watch that video.
@MM (continuation)
Here are links toward two of the videos.
You can find more if you type something like “demonic activity” in the search box.
https://endtimes.video/former-satanist-demons-appeared/
https://endtimes.video/magicians-video/
This last video is a plain, factual documentary and because of that it should be viewed by all, Catholics and non-catholics the same.
the new head of the C of E has been widely reported as an unrepentant lesbian, who was once a man
this is comical
#the bible is quite clear about what should be done with homosexuals
other religions say the same.
The chief exorcist at the C of E was rev christopher neil-smith
he had some success in exorcising homosexuals back to normality
the catholic top exorcist dom robert petit pierre
was secretly sent by the vatican to russias state bulidngs and the lubiyanka
at the collapse of communism
to dispel some hideous creatures
“there aren’t more demons running amok on Earth” Chad says. Why would there be? Even in true prayers to God, prayers will always be mixed with something earthly and selfish, in demand of purification. And where once “stood” an altar within oneself where “At-one-ment” could be reached and accepted through love, willingness, faith, eternal longing driven by a innocent pure heart – in days of a Godless world there is no God to be found. Instead the “seeker” encounters the imaginary and incredible beautiful artistic creation of “oneself” dressed as King or Queen ruling over the fantasy kingdom of ones own surreality and where there is simply no more room for God. A thick egocentric utterly stubborn mind build from mortal flesh now rules ones own limited micro-verse where At-one-ment in physical terms seems impossible – unless it is realised that “ones own temple” is not a structure at all. Its true holiness lies at the “inner altar” around which the structure of imagination is built. The emphasis on beautiful structures is a sign of the fear of Atonement, and an unwillingness to reach the altar itself – and completely without the help of Demon(-crates) or Satanists.
“On March 13, Pope Leo XIV hosted the world’s most senior exorcists at the Vatican. They reportedly warned him of the terrifying global rise in occultism, esotericism and Satanism.”
Maybe its time again for some Murican-Roman inquisition and burning stakes with screaming heretics, perverted sado maso witch-hunts and most of all to “make crosses great again” just to divert attention from the “$atanists” that run the church, its temples and its little money changing helpers that have overtaken the kingdom of Godless hellfire on earth.
Hasn’t the world have had enough of Americans (and their religions) yet?
People had a better grip on reality during the pre-Copernicus era than they had & now have post-Copernicus.
In the video
https://endtimes.video/magicians-video/
And looking at the expression of self-satisfaction and feeling of self-excellence in the faces of those “performers” one can only feel pity for them because of the extremely unwise decisions and contracts they made in order to “be someone” and have their “hour of glory under the sun”.
The hour of glory passes away rather quickly and then, what?
I don’t want to think too much about how it will be for them.
Poor fools.
The same applies to all kinds of satanists who knowingly or unknowingly get into some kind of contract in order to have some position of power, riches, or some other advantage of any kind, or simply to gain access to unpunished perversions in the rather short earthly lives.