{"id":4811,"date":"2008-02-27T16:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T16:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/exorcisms_may_be_on_the_rise\/"},"modified":"2008-02-27T16:07:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T16:07:00","slug":"exorcisms_may_be_on_the_rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=4811","title":{"rendered":"Exorcisms May Be On The Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Catholic Church has always believed in the idea of demonic possession &#8212; of the fight, within the individual, between good and evil, says CBS News correspondent Mark Phillips.<\/p>\n<p>The ancient ritual of trying to drive evil spirits formtortured souls was dramatically portrayed by Hollywood in &#8220;The Exorcist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Church, Phillips points out, would rather such graphic religious experiences took place privately.<\/p>\n<p>When one Archbishop, Emanuel Malingo, began holding increasingly popular public exorcisms, the Vatican made him stop. The exorcism scenes weren&#8217;t pretty, Phillips observes.<\/p>\n<p>There is evidence, though, that the practice of exorcism is experiencing a revival, according to the Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2008\/02\/26\/earlyshow\/main3877560.shtml\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Catholic Church has always believed in the idea of demonic possession &#8212; of the fight, within the individual, between good and evil, says CBS News correspondent Mark Phillips. The ancient ritual of trying to drive evil spirits formtortured souls<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=4811\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,154,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-news-commentary","category-other-churches","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}