From Word On Fire:
I’ll be the first to admit that I’ve truly enjoyed starting my day with breakfast and a long commute to work with Fr. Carlos Martin’s incredible podcast The Exorcist Files playing in the background. If there was an early 2000s movie about my life, the opening scene wouldn’t be a cute hype-up song; viewer discretion would be announced. And when Fr. Martins’s content is not enough, there’s interviews with Fr. Ripperger, there’s Fr. Dan Reehil’s shows Battle Ready and Ask the Exorcist, and so much more. I can attest that the content out there is pretty much endless, and now that it has been so out in the open for a few years, the question arises: What is all this exorcism content for?
It is also important to keep in mind that the reason we have all this content is not because the exorcists simply woke up on a random day and collectively decided it was time to try the influencer route. Instead, the Church asked them to. Rome is treating this as urgent, and this spring, Pope Leo XIV convened exorcists from around the world for a summit the Church itself framed as a response to a rise in cases driven largely by tarot, witchcraft, and casual occultism going mainstream online. Terms like “manifesting” have become normalized and well marketed into the world of “self-help.” It is presented as innocent, harmless, and even healthy, while it is actually the opposite.