When I was 13 years old, I watched William Friedkins’ “The Exorcist,” the 1973 film based on the novel by William Blatty. It was 1995, and I sat on the couch and watched as Fathers Lankester ...

Exorcism: Ancient Art or Hocus Pocus? By ABC News. May 16, 2006, 7:34 AM. May 16, 2006 — -- Exorcism is an ancient tradition within the Catholic Church going back to biblical times.

Exorcists have been the stuff of media fantasy since the 1970s. The 1973 film The Exorcist was a worldwide box-office smash and established a cinematic sub-genre devoted to the subject as well as ...

There are approximately 150 Catholic priests in the United States who practice exorcism, an ancient practice to rid people, places and objects of demonic influence. There is even a protocol for ...

The career of William Friedkin, who died on Monday at 87, spanned seven decades, but to the end of his life, his best-known picture remained “The Exorcist,” a horror movie from 1973 about a ...

The Catholic Church also had competition: People who could not get an exorcism from the Catholics now had a variety of other options. Pentecostals had been casting out demons for decades .