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How Occultists Remade the World | Compact

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This March, Pope Leo hosted a private meeting for several priests from the International Association of Exorcists.

This March, Pope Leo hosted a private meeting for several priests from the International Association of Exorcists. Their goal was to lobby the Roman Pontiff into increasing the number of trained exorcists available to every Catholic diocese. The world, they said, was witnessing an unprecedented rise in “occultism, esotericism, and Satanism.” The current exorcists on hand were insufficient to respond to the increasing number of “people seriously disturbed by the extraordinary action of the devil as a result of frequenting occult sects.” Two years prior, Pope Francis had publicly warned that “ou

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