Father Amorth : My Battle Against Satan

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Amorth, Gabriele (1999). An exorcist tells his story. San Francisco, Calif.: Ignatius Press. ISBN 0-89870-710-2. OCLC 41135836. When Father Amorth died in 2016, he was the world's most famous exorcist, a legendary, miraculous chaser of demons. To the many he served, Father was a godsend, freeing them from years of demonic oppression; to others, he was just a crank – an extremist priest who saw the Devil everywhere. His incorporation into horror cinema was only a matter of time: shortly before his death at the age of 91, he starred in the documentary The Devil and Father Amorth (2017), made by William Friedkin, the director of The Exorcist (1973), his favorite movie. In that posthumously released title, the Vatican allowed Friedkin to witness and record a real exorcism performed by Amorth — although the material was not as dramatic as that of the horror classic, nor did it contain anything paranormal beyond a woman who screams with a distorted voice. Directory of Exorcists, Deliverance Counselors, and Investigators". Camelot Warfare Library. Oblates and Missioners of St. Michael. 1996–2017. Archived from the original on 30 June 2018 . Retrieved June 29, 2018. http://www.edizionisanpaolo.it/religione_1/spiritualita_1/dimensioni-dello-spirito/libro/padre-amorth_92921.aspx https://sophiainstitute.com/product/father-amorth/

Review of Gabriel Amorth, An Exorcist Tells His Story (Ignatius, 1999) 205 pp". www.canonlaw.info . Retrieved 2020-10-03. Amorth, Gabriele (2010). Memorie di un esorcista: la mia vita in lotta contro Satana. Marco Tosatti, Cles, tipografo trentino Mondadori. Milano: Piemme. ISBN 978-88-566-0942-4. OCLC 799745365. The Devil is Afraid of Me: The Life and Work of the World's Most Famous Exorcist, with Marcello Stanzione - published 2019, by Sophia Institute Press. Translated by Charlotte J. Fasi (originally published as Il Diavolo Ha Paura di Me, Tavagnacco: Edizioni Segno, 2016. [21]

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The demonologist, who has given lectures at the Regina Apostolorum Pontifical Athenaeum in Rome, is not particularly fond of the film subgenre, considering it “folkloric and not very rigorous.” Apart from The Exorcist, which he does consider an accurate representation of what it means to face “powerful principalities of hell,” he only likes two more films: The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005) and The Rite (2011) — despite their “cinematic and fanciful” elements. However, in the more than 1,200 exorcisms that he claims to have performed in his 18-year career (the first was at the age of 42; he is now 60), he has “seen it all,” he says. “Except for a head turning 360 degrees — that’s impossible!” When Father Amorth died in 2016, he was the world's most famous exorcist, a legendary, miraculous chaser of demons. To the many he served, Father was a godsend, freeing them from years of demonic oppression; to others, he was just a crank "€" an extremist priest who saw the Devil everywhere. Now, in these never-before-published interviews, Father Amorth takes you into his private world, giving you a harrowing vision of his daily battles with the Devil. Here you won't meet a wizard or a crazy man. Instead, you'll encounter a solid Christian and a humble priest, one who jokes and takes life as God --- or the Devil! --- hands it to him. One of the most surprising parts is the extraordinarily anticlimactic scene where the priest dispatches an exorcism by phone, while a voice is heard shouting something indistinct on the other end of the line. “You can do the procedure by phone. Father Amorth did some,” confirms Acuña, who cites as precedents the miracles of the healing of the daughter of the Syrophoenician woman and the healing of the centurion’s servant, both carried out remotely by Jesus Christ, according to the Scriptures. The priest also explains that “the Our Father contains an exorcism: ‘Deliver us from the evil one.’ The original does not say ‘evil,’ it says ‘the evil one.’ Therefore, all Christians who believe in the devil can do an exorcism by saying the Our Father prayer.”

Amorth, Fr. Gabriele (2000). Excerpt from An Exorcist Tells his Story. Ignatius Press. pp.25–36. Archived from the original on 3 January 2018 . Retrieved 13 September 2006. World's top exorcist saw the Devil in Harry Potter, yoga, and thousands of middle-aged, middle-class women". National Post . Retrieved 2023-04-13. Amorth, Gabriele (2016). An exorcist explains the demonic: the antics of Satan and his army of fallen angels. Stefano Stimamiglio, Charlotte J. Fasi. Manchester, New Hampshire. ISBN 978-1-62282-345-1. OCLC 945745738. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link)An Exorcist Explains the Demonic (with Stefano Stimamiglio, translated by Charlotte J. Fasi), 2016. [37] In Father Amorth: My Battle Against Satan, Father Gabriele Amorth does admit to having tied up supposed victims of possession; they are so strong, he argued, that they cannot be held down. Amorth was prominently opposed to the 1999 revision of the Rituale Romanum, carried out during the papacy of John Paul II and intended to limit the criteria when applying exorcisms (that dispute was settled with the inclusion of a note in the prologue stating that the update was optional). Acuña laments how rationalism has gained a place in the Church. “There are bishops who make psychiatric and psychological referrals because they don’t believe in the devil. But the devil is not imaginary, nor a concept, nor an idea. He is a personality and has a strategy, of which possession is a part. The devil doesn’t pretend to be the devil; the devil is!” he declares. Father Gabriele Amorth, crucifix in hand, in 2000. Eric Vandeville (Getty Images) (Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images) The Vatican last codified the rites of exorcism in 2004 in an updated Latin-language document, De Exorcismis et Supplicationibus Quibusdam. [19] Books [ edit ] Amorth wrote two memoirs of his time as an exorcist - An Exorcist Tells His Story and An Exorcist: More Stories. The books include references to the official Roman Catholic teachings on demonology while the main emphasis is on Amorth's experience as an exorcist. Both include references to the diagnosis and treatment of spiritual problems. The books briefly cover the topics of demonic contraction and curses. [17] He states, "A curse can originate from such things as maledictions by close relatives, a habit of blaspheming, membership in Freemasonry, spiritic or magic practices, and so on." [20]