What's the difference between fake exorcisms and the real ones?
A priest claims someone is grifting gullible people by giving them "fake" exorcisms and taking their money. - have you looked at the mirror, padre?
A priest claims someone is grifting gullible people by giving them "fake" exorcisms and taking their money. - have you looked at the mirror, padre?
Quote:Father Vincent Lampert leads worshippers at St. Michael Catholic Church in Brookville in southeastern Indiana.
He said he’s performed exorcisms for almost 20 years, but now, someone has been pretending to be him for more than a year and offering exorcisms, rosaries, and holy water for money.
”Unfortunately, a lot of people who believe they are dealing with the demonic are very vulnerable,” he said.
“I had a gentleman in Germany tell me that the person got him to pay them two thousand dollars thinking I was flying to Germany to do an exorcism for him. I’ve had people show up here for appointments, people I did not know. But this person actually got people to give him up to $300 for an appointment.”
The church does not charge for exorcisms, he noted. [but it does take donations]
“You can fool people in this life but you ultimately have to give an account before God one day. Because if you’re genuinely wanting to help somebody, you’re going to put a price tag on that.”
Father Vincent says he’s spoken with law enforcement, but there is no active case right now.
He said the person he believes is pretending to be him could be anywhere.
https://www.fox19.com/2025/02/21/priest-...exorcisms/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
