{"id":13330,"date":"2018-01-20T14:13:37","date_gmt":"2018-01-20T14:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=13330"},"modified":"2018-01-20T14:13:37","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T14:13:37","slug":"exorcist-questions-whether-many-church-leaders-believe-in-evil-spirits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/exorcist-questions-whether-many-church-leaders-believe-in-evil-spirits\/","title":{"rendered":"Exorcist Questions Whether Many Church Leaders Believe In Evil Spirits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Catholic Herald:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.catholicherald.co.uk\/content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/GettyImages-163600181-800x500.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ireland urgently needs more exorcists to deal with rising cases of demonic possession and other evil phenomena, a priest has said.<\/p>\n<p>Fr Pat Collins, a leading exorcist, said he was \u201cbaffled\u201d Church leaders were not taking action as more people claim to be victims of demonic activity.\u00a0Fr Collins said that Church leaders are \u201cout of touch with reality\u201d if they think there is no demand for exorcists. He wondered if modern-day clergy still believe in evil spirits, adding: \u201cI suspect they don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em> <strong> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicherald.co.uk\/news\/2018\/01\/19\/demand-for-exorcisms-rising-exponentially-in-ireland-priest-warns\/\">For Full Story<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2016\/06\/04\/tropical-rains-possible-tornadoes-threaten-half-us.html?intcmp=hpbt1\"><em><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">]<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em> <strong>[Return to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiritdaily.com\/\">www.spiritdaily.com]<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\"><a href=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/Michael%20H.%20Brown\/Documents\/My%20Webs\/indexhold.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spiritdaily.com\/angellily.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times;\"><em>Pray always for purity and love<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: large;\">+++<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times;\"> <em> Please <a href=\"mailto:spiritdaily@cfl.rr.com\">report<\/a> any inappropriate ads or content<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"church,spiritual-warfare\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1516457617\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Exorcist Questions Whether Many Church Leaders Believe In Evil Spirits\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Catholic Herald: Ireland urgently needs more exorcists to deal with rising cases of demonic possession and other evil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[44,39],"tags":[712,1036,748],"class_list":{"0":"post-13330","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-church","7":"category-spiritual-warfare","8":"tag-church","9":"tag-exorcism","10":"tag-ireland","11":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}