Excorcism - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 31 Oct 2022 05:50:50 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Excorcism - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 American exorcist started a TikTok channel to help souls navigate ‘dangerous territory' https://cathnews.co.nz/2022/10/31/american-exorcist-started-a-tiktok-channel-to-help-souls-navigate-dangerous-territory/ Mon, 31 Oct 2022 06:51:18 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=153519 Monsignor Stephen Rossetti, a 71-year-old Catholic priest, started a TikTok channel last month when it came to his attention that the popular social media platform was introducing kids to something other than harmless videos of lip-syncing, viral dance challenges, and funny things caught on home security cameras. As the chief exorcist of the Archdiocese of Read more

American exorcist started a TikTok channel to help souls navigate ‘dangerous territory'... Read more]]> Monsignor Stephen Rossetti, a 71-year-old Catholic priest, started a TikTok channel last month when it came to his attention that the popular social media platform was introducing kids to something other than harmless videos of lip-syncing, viral dance challenges, and funny things caught on home security cameras.

As the chief exorcist of the Archdiocese of Washington, Rossetti was concerned when he learned that videos with hashtags like "WitchTok" and "Folk Catholicism" had become popular on the TikTok app.

If you scroll through the platform using those hashtags, you'll come across a variety of eyebrow-raising videos claiming to share magic spells and manifestations associated with witchcraft. Most TikTok users across the world are between the ages of 18 and 24, according to data compiled by Statista.

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American exorcist started a TikTok channel to help souls navigate ‘dangerous territory']]> 153519 Priest in a helicopter performs exorcism of town https://cathnews.co.nz/2015/08/04/priest-in-a-helicopter-performs-exorcism-of-town/ Mon, 03 Aug 2015 19:20:55 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=74811 A priest has performed an aerial exorcism of the Italian seaside town of Castellammare di Stabia in response to a spree of church-targeted thefts and vandalism in the area. At the urging of a local prayer group, a priest took to a helicopter to perform a minor exorcism over the entire town, according Italian papers. Read more

Priest in a helicopter performs exorcism of town... Read more]]> A priest has performed an aerial exorcism of the Italian seaside town of Castellammare di Stabia in response to a spree of church-targeted thefts and vandalism in the area.

At the urging of a local prayer group, a priest took to a helicopter to perform a minor exorcism over the entire town, according Italian papers.

"If Satan exists, he has taken control of Castellammare di Stabia," the group said in a statement. "There was nothing left but to try the exorcist." Continue reading

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