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Author: Matt Baglio Publisher: Image ISBN: 0385522711 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 306
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The inspiration for the film starring Anthony Hopkins, journalist Matt Baglio uses the astonishing story of one American priest's training as an exorcist to reveal that the phenomena of possession, demons, the Devil, and exorcism are not merely a remnant of the archaic past, but remain a fearsome power in many people's lives even today. Father Gary Thomas was working as a parish priest in California when he was asked by his bishop to travel to Rome for training in the rite of exorcism. Though initially surprised, and slightly reluctant, he accepted this call, and enrolled in a new exorcism course at a Vatican-affiliated university, which taught him, among other things, how to distinguish between a genuine possession and mental illness. Eventually he would go on to participate in more than eighty exorcisms as an apprentice to a veteran Italian exorcist. His experiences profoundly changed the way he viewed the spiritual world, and as he moved from rational skeptic to practicing exorcist he came to understand the battle between good and evil in a whole new light. Journalist Matt Baglio had full access to Father Gary over the course of his training, and much of what he learned defies explanation. The Rite provides fascinating vignettes from the lives of exorcists and people possessed by demons, including firsthand accounts of exorcists at work casting out demons, culminating in Father Gary's own confrontations with the Devil. Baglio also traces the history of exorcism, revealing its rites and rituals, explaining what the Catholic Church really teaches about demonic possession, and delving into such related topics as the hierarchy of angels and demons, satanic cults, black masses, curses, and the various theories used by modern scientists and anthropologists who seek to quantify such phenomena. Written with an investigative eye that will captivate both skeptics and believers alike, The Rite shows that the truth about demonic possession is not only stranger than fiction, but also far more chilling.
Author: Matt Baglio Publisher: Image ISBN: 0385522711 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 306
Book Description
The inspiration for the film starring Anthony Hopkins, journalist Matt Baglio uses the astonishing story of one American priest's training as an exorcist to reveal that the phenomena of possession, demons, the Devil, and exorcism are not merely a remnant of the archaic past, but remain a fearsome power in many people's lives even today. Father Gary Thomas was working as a parish priest in California when he was asked by his bishop to travel to Rome for training in the rite of exorcism. Though initially surprised, and slightly reluctant, he accepted this call, and enrolled in a new exorcism course at a Vatican-affiliated university, which taught him, among other things, how to distinguish between a genuine possession and mental illness. Eventually he would go on to participate in more than eighty exorcisms as an apprentice to a veteran Italian exorcist. His experiences profoundly changed the way he viewed the spiritual world, and as he moved from rational skeptic to practicing exorcist he came to understand the battle between good and evil in a whole new light. Journalist Matt Baglio had full access to Father Gary over the course of his training, and much of what he learned defies explanation. The Rite provides fascinating vignettes from the lives of exorcists and people possessed by demons, including firsthand accounts of exorcists at work casting out demons, culminating in Father Gary's own confrontations with the Devil. Baglio also traces the history of exorcism, revealing its rites and rituals, explaining what the Catholic Church really teaches about demonic possession, and delving into such related topics as the hierarchy of angels and demons, satanic cults, black masses, curses, and the various theories used by modern scientists and anthropologists who seek to quantify such phenomena. Written with an investigative eye that will captivate both skeptics and believers alike, The Rite shows that the truth about demonic possession is not only stranger than fiction, but also far more chilling.
Author: Michael Alan Nelson Publisher: Boom! Studios ISBN: 1613981198 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 115
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What doesn't kill you makes you stronger! Alan Gates, a cancer patient with a terminal diagnosis, is resigned to his fate...until he discovers that his tumor is actually a mysterious parasite! Granted a second lease on life and incredible, otherworldly powers, Alan must fight against an evil army buried beneath society's skin, all the while unlocking the secrets of his forgotten past. From the dark & twisted mind of James Wan, the creator and director of SAW, MALIGNANT MAN is a sci-fi thriller that can't be missed! Co-written by fan-favorite writer Michael Alan Nelson (28 DAYS LATER, DINGO) and illustrated by rising star artist Piotr Kowalski, with a cover by industry legend Trevor Hairsine!
Author: Craig A. Monson Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226534626 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 258
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Witchcraft. Arson. Going AWOL. Some nuns in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy strayed far from the paradigms of monastic life. Cloistered in convents, subjected to stifling hierarchy, repressed, and occasionally persecuted by their male superiors, these women circumvented authority in sometimes extraordinary ways. But tales of their transgressions have long been buried in the Vatican Secret Archive. That is, until now. In Nuns Behaving Badly, Craig A. Monson resurrects forgotten tales and restores to life the long-silent voices of these cloistered heroines. Here we meet nuns who dared speak out about physical assault and sexual impropriety (some real, some imagined). Others were only guilty of misjudgment or defacing valuable artwork that offended their sensibilities. But what unites the women and their stories is the challenges they faced: these were women trying to find their way within the Catholicism of their day and through the strict limits it imposed on them. Monson introduces us to women who were occasionally desperate to flee cloistered life, as when an entire community conspired to torch their convent and be set free. But more often, he shows us nuns just trying to live their lives. When they were crossed—by powerful priests who claimed to know what was best for them—bad behavior could escalate from mere troublemaking to open confrontation. In resurrecting these long-forgotten tales and trials, Monson also draws attention to the predicament of modern religious women, whose “misbehavior”—seeking ordination as priests or refusing to give up their endowments to pay for priestly wrongdoing in their own archdioceses—continues even today. The nuns of early modern Italy, Monson shows, set the standard for religious transgression in their own age—and beyond.
Author: Aldous Huxley Publisher: Random House ISBN: 1409079503 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 400
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A gripping biography by the author of Brave New World In 1634 Urbain Grandier, a handsome and dissolute priest of the parish of Loudun was tried, tortured and burnt at the stake. He had been found guilty of conspiring with the devil to seduce an entire convent of nuns. Grandier maintained his innocence to the end but four years after his death the nuns were still being subjected to exorcisms to free them from their demonic bondage. Huxley's vivid account of this bizarre tale of religious and sexual obsession transforms our understanding of the medieval world.
Author: Hubert Wolf Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0385351925 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 557
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A true, never-before-told story—discovered in a secret Vatican archive—of sex, poison, and lesbian initiation rites in a nineteenth-century convent. In 1858, a German princess, recently inducted into the convent of Sant’Ambrogio in Rome, wrote a frantic letter to her cousin, a confidant of the Pope, claiming that she was being abused and feared for her life. What the subsequent investigation by the Church’s Inquisition uncovered were the extraordinary secrets of Sant’Ambrogio and the illicit behavior of the convent’s beautiful young mistress, Maria Luisa. Having convinced those under her charge that she was having regular visions and heavenly visitations, Maria Luisa began to lead and coerce her novices into lesbian initiation rites and heresies. She entered into a highly eroticized relationship with a young theologian known as Padre Peters—urging him to dispense upon her, in the privacy and sanctity of the confessional box, what the two of them referred to as the “special blessing.” What emerges through the fog of centuries is a sex scandal of ecclesiastical significance, skillfully brought to light and vividly reconstructed in scholarly detail. Offering a broad historical background on female mystics and the cult of the Virgin Mary, and drawing on written testimony and original documents, Professor Wolf—Germany’s leading scholar of the Catholic Church, and among the very first scholars to be granted access to the archives of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, formerly the office of the Inquisition—tells the incredible story of how one woman was able to perpetrate deception, heresy, seduction, and murder in the heart of the Church itself.
Author: Eve Tushnet Publisher: Ave Maria Press ISBN: 1594715432 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 224
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Winner of a 2015 Catholic Press Award: Gender Issues Category (First Place). In this first book from an openly lesbian and celibate Catholic, widely published writer and blogger Eve Tushnet recounts her spiritual and intellectual journey from liberal atheism to faithful Catholicism and shows how gay Catholics can love and be loved while adhering to Church teaching. Eve Tushnet was among the unlikeliest of converts. The only child of two atheist academics, Tushnet was a typical Yale undergraduate until the day she went out to poke fun at a gathering of philosophical debaters, who happened also to be Catholic. Instead of enjoying mocking what she termed the “zoo animals,” she found herself engaged in intellectual conversation with them and, in a move that surprised even her, she soon converted to Catholicism. Already self-identifying as a lesbian, Tushnet searched for a third way in the seeming two-option system available to gay Catholics: reject Church teaching on homosexuality or reject the truth of your sexuality. Gay and Catholic: Accepting My Sexuality, Finding Community, Living My Faith is the fruit of Tushnet’s searching: what she learned in studying Christian history and theology and her articulation of how gay Catholics can pour their love and need for connection into friendships, community, service, and artistic creation.
Author: Ed Warren Publisher: Graymalkin Media ISBN: 1631680226 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 228
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The shocking true case of demonic possession from the reporters who first covered it in the Boston Herald. The case was discussed and you can watch the real exorcism footage in the blockbuster horror film The Conjuring. When terrifying, bizarre things kept happening to a hard-working Massachusetts farmer, he did what anyone would do. First he went to the local police chief. Then he went to his priest. And then he went to Ed and Lorraine Warren, the world’s most famous demonologists who investigated the “The Amityville Horror” and other terrifying cases of demonic possession. It was the Warrens who called in one of America’s most renowned exorcists, Bishop Robert McKenna. What they all experienced is described in this extraordinary book. Absolutely terrifying. Absolutely true. Don't miss the Warrens' new film "Annabelle" (October, 2014).
Author: Ed Warren Publisher: Graymalkin Media ISBN: 163168020X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 298
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The story of the most terrifying case of demonic possession in the United States. It became the basis for the hit film “The Haunting in Connecticut” starring Virginia Madsen. Shortly after moving into their new home, the Snedeker family is assaulted by a sinister presence that preys one-by-one on their family. Exhausting all other resources, they call up the world-renowned demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren—who have never encountered a case as frightening as this... No one had warned the Snedekers their new house used to be an old funeral home. Their battle with an inexplicable and savage phenomena had only just begun. What started as a simple “poltergeist” escalated into a full-scale war, an average American family battling the deepest, darkest forces of evil—a war this family could not afford to lose.
Author: Judith C. Brown Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0197652220 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 226
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The discovery of the fascinating and richly documented story of Sister Benedetta Carlini, Abbess of the Convent of the Mother of God, by Judith C. Brown was an event of major historical importance. Not only is the story revealed in Immodest Acts that of the rise and fall of a powerful woman in a church community and a record of the life of a religious visionary, it is also the earliest documentation of lesbianism in modern Western history. Born of well-to-do parents, Benedetta Carlini entered the convent at the age of nine. At twenty-three, she began to have visions of both a religious and erotic nature. Benedetta was elected abbess due largely to these visions, but later aroused suspicions by claiming to have had supernatural contacts with Christ. During the course of an investigation, church authorities not only found that she had faked her visions and stigmata, but uncovered evidence of a lesbian affair with another nun, Bartolomeo. The story of the relationship between the two nuns and of Benedetta's fall from an abbess to an outcast is revealed in surprisingly candid archival documents and retold here with a fine sense of drama.
Author: Somnath Bhattacharjee Publisher: Somnath Bhattacharjee ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 348
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The story takes an unexpected turn when Christian gets an accident with his bike and Christian gets died to save Julia’s life but, Chris died in the Devil’s arrival time. The Devil the lord of darkness is cursed by the God. The Devil has the power to take control of any lives and act in someone’s life as he wants. The Devil takes control of Christian’s life and made Christian sell his soul to the Devil by giving him extreme pain and at the end Christian had to agree with the Devil to sell his soul because of the Devil’s torture. Chris finds himself in hospital bed after that, with Julia is sitting beside him and caressing his hairs. Chris founds out later that he went to coma for 48 hours after his accident and Chris forgets about all but remember about the torture what the Devil given to him for make him sell his soul. The Devil was watching Chris’s lips with his red eyes and the Devil witnessed Julia’s loves to Chris and how both holy souls enjoy in each other’s presence. The Devil wonders because the Devil was cursed to be hated and be feared by everyone and the Devil wonders and remembers about his past life, where he had the same kind of love but he lost because of his cruelty and cursed by the God. Seeing Chris’s love for Julia and Julia’s love for Chris, slowly the Devil starts to have feelings for Julia too, the Devil wanted to feel loved too even for it if it takes him to murder anyone. The Devil wanted to go near Julia and more close, as only Chris could and one day the Devil succeed after falling in love with Julia. The Devil seen scars in Julia’s lower body. The Devil in the disguise of Chris asks to Julia, how and why the scars are on her body? At first Julia hesitates but at last Julia speaks up and shares about her painful story of ‘Ecclesia Fista’ the Christian School where young students taught for be monks and nuns of Churches. The Devil’s eyes sparkles with the name of the 7 sins of Christianity, “Pride, Greed, Lust, Envy, Gluttony, Wrath, Sloth” Julia wonders by hearing that words from Chris and Julia looks towards Chris but suddenly she sees that Chris is not Chris anymore, a Devil with scary face is sitting beside her and Julia heard that the Devil snorted and as the Devil realizes that Julia is aware of his presence. The Devil gets out of the room with his scary face and his devilish behaviour. Julia tries to follow the Devil but, she failed. The Devil transforms into a crow with bloods are falling from the eyes as bloody tears from the crow’s eyes. The Devil went towards ‘Ecclesia Fista’ and seen his prey for the each Full Moon and New Moon nights. The Devils targets his prey and punishments for the sinners of the 7 sins. For ‘Lust’ Father Ambrose gets burned alive during his fake Exorcism to exploit his student. For ‘Greed’ Reverend Caius Shadowthorn gets crushed by the pillars of the building what he made with low quality materials for put the money on his own pocket and his tragic death throws questions towards the principle, was he a corrupt too? For ‘Sloth’ Edward Joshua Peterson the principle of the ‘Ecclesia Fista’ gets a tragic death by the tools he used to make erotic stone sculptures. He got punished by the Devil for neglecting his important works for his ‘Sloth’ and addictions. He died with a big needle on his forehead as a sign of his punishment of his own procrastination. For ‘Pride’ Nun Veronica Divine gets killed with beating of Devilish ruler and lightning because she had so much pride about her knowledge and he hated and humiliated the people who used to challenge her views for gather diverse knowledge. For ‘Gluttony’ Reverend Thomas Milton gets killed for eating coins with his food and stabbed a fork on his tongue by himself for the Devil’s punishment to him because rich businessman Thomas Milton over eaten food and used to humiliate the poor unfortunate people, who used to ask for money to him. For ‘Envy’ Detective Lucas Smith gets killed with snake’s venom and burning alive as the Devil’s punishment because Detective Lucas Smith tried to get Julia for the night and Lucas was jealous of Chris, who had a person like Julia in his life. After killing the 6 sinners, the Devil looks for kill his seventh prey but as the Devil tries to find the seventh sinner this time Julia gets to know that the Devil is behind the sudden murders in ‘Ecclesia Fista’. The Vatican City gets involved as Julia’s childhood friend Tanya asks help of Father Andrew. The two things Father Andrew suggests is to do an Exorcism with Chris’s body to talk with the Devil or, use the red holy knife, what the God used 2000 years ago for kill the two rulers of the hell. Now this was not only a war between Devil and Chris but, a war between the Devil and the whole Vatican City with Julia and Chris and the Devil is not here for accept a lose. Will the Devil haunt for his seventh prey? Where there’s the Devil is preaching, ‘In this era, the God may not come to save you but, the Devil comes to kill you!’ Step into the world of darkness and lightness and hope with the waves of beautiful lies. Forget the pasts of yours and let the darkness lead you into the light where ignite touches your soul. Get lost in the book where the brightness and the darkness collide and make the ultimate auroras in dark night skies. You have read books where the main character is the hero but, in this case, the main character is a Villain to be told the story from the evil’s side.
Author: Matt Baglio
Author: Matt Baglio
Author: Michael Alan Nelson
Author: Craig A. Monson
Author: Aldous Huxley
Author: Hubert Wolf
Author: Eve Tushnet
Author: Ed Warren
Author: Ed Warren
Author: Judith C. Brown
Author: Somnath Bhattacharjee