Demons be gone: meeting America’s new exorcists

To wrestle yourself free, you need a strong stomach and to be prepared to hear the sound of dozens of people vomiting, spitting, retching, belching and calling out their demons by name… 

Julie Andrews, an intense volunteer counselor, explains that you only need to see the problems with pedophilia in the Catholic church to see that exorcism, Rome's version of deliverance, rarely works. The practice – with the sprinkling of holy water and recitation of litanies – is "a bunch of rituals from a book", she says. "Deliverance – the way we do it – is repentance, forgiveness and the power of the Holy Spirit."…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/20/spiritual-warfare-deliverance-demons-exorcism