What's gotten into Italians?

[Amarok]

I'm not sure about that. Sure, more stress, more anxiety, more crime....... Those can be addressed by non church entities. 

But why demons and exorcism? It feels like a play to prop up a/another false need for the church.

But here's the thing it's not pragmatic their looking for . Their looking for underlying cause and to many of a religious mindset oogity boogity and demons are that  cause . Monks and religious "scholar" use to blame real world problems on superstition like demons . So i imagine their doing so now .