Exorcisms

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During my time in the Catholic church and at Catholic school exorcism was sort of glossed over.  We didn't talk about that any more than we talked about pedophile priests.

You didn't? Well back when I was a kid in the 90s I decided for my own amusement to enroll, for a short time, in a religious class in the school that was held by a woman Catholic teacher-theologian. And I can't say that it wasn't amusing hearing those insane people, like theologians, talk. There I found out about the exorcism because she couldn't stop talking about it. She would say "Oh I used to like that name Damian, but since the movie 'Omen' I hate it." She talked about exorcisms and fairy tales about it, the movie "The Exorcist" and so on. I must say she was (and still probably is) one fascinating lunatic.

I was in Catholic school from 6th grade through high school graduation...mainly because the only schools in town were the Catholic schools.  Only the kindergarten was public.

This was the late 60s to mid 70s and the diocese we were in was actually pretty liberal.   When I hear stories of the things other went through in the Catholic school system, I realize that we were pretty lucky to not be part of the hard line Catholic doctrine.